Troubleshooting

[agate]

Maybe this is just part of the modifications you're trying, but I wonder why "View Forum Posts" seems to work OK for some (MS board) members but not others.

I tried View Forum Posts for several people, but 2 that I tried bring up nothing. These are people who have many forum posts and are still members.

Cherie and Pegakafarmgirl are the ones. I've tried about 8 others, and they're OK.

Thanks for your attention and for all the work you do here.

[agate]

This is being posted hours after my previous post. Cherie's posts are visible now in "View Forum Posts" but Peg's aren't. Checking a few more names, I found several more where no prior posts are visible: jendie, SuzE-Q, and Gabriella7.

Maybe there's no cause for concern here but it would be too bad not to have access to these posts.

EDITED TO ADD: I checked a few names on the Epilepsy forum and found that for sandinmyears and lor, no previous posts are found when clicking on View Forum Posts or Find Latest Posts.

[Earth Mother 2 Angels]

((((((agate)))))) ~

When I click on View Forum Posts for you, only 4 posts are shown. Same thing when I click on my own View Forum Posts. Something is hinky!

It probably correlates to Mike's tinkering. Hopefully, Mike will tell us, after he finishes his homework!

Love & Light,

Rose

[Mike Weins]

We've been having issues with the "view forum posts" and "view latest posts (or threads)" for awhile now. Not sure why yet :(

Rose ... yes the links along the top will remain, but the tabs (new posts, archive, etc etc) will be temporarily unavailable. The archive site is unaffected so you can visit it using the link in the appropriate forums "useful websites" sticky. All of the skins will be removed and a new default one created. None of the information in the blogs should be affected. Neither should posts.

There is a small chance that I might have to go back to a backup from before the spam started going out. That would mean any posts, pms, blogs, etc etc made after that date would be lost. Luckily it would only be a week or two, but that is a last resort and only has a small chance of happening.

[agate]

Thanks for pointing this out, Rose!

It seems strange but I'm more than willing to leave it in the capable hands of the administrators who I'm sure have a much better grasp of the situation than I could ever have.

They did warn us.

--And the Thanks button is in place. That's really about all we need.

[renee]

Thanks Mike.

Do you ever find us amusing?

You are.

[Mike Weins]

Thanks Mike.

Do you ever find us amusing?

You are.

Yes sometimes I get a chuckle out of your folk's post

EDIT: Ok tonight I'm going to remove every thing but the bare bones forum stuff. So for a little while at least BT is going to look quite plain

[Mike Weins]

I turned off new registrations for a little while to prevent new spammers from joining. I deeply apologize to any real persons that need to register. If you need to register an account send an email to btsysop@gmail.com with:

Name you want to use (send 3 in case one or two are in use)
An email address I can reply to

[Mike Weins]

I will work on getting the pubmed and related links up tomorrow evening.

[Mike Weins]

So far the "CMS" portion is clean (the "home" page). Tomorrow I'm going to enable the blogs and give it a couple of days. If the blogs are clean the next in line is the thanks button, followed by spam-o-matic, and others. Assuming the ones that get turned on are clean.

[David Hosobuchi]

I think having the "Thanks Button" back will be great, I believe that has been missed. Personally I found myself very much wanting to use it this last week, and am impatiently waiting its return. 😁

Mike, thanks for your time in troubleshooting and the resolution of this. 😃

[Earth Mother 2 Angels]

((((((Mike)))))) ~

Reminds me of the movie, Poltergeist ~ "This house is clean." You're performing a spammer-cism!!

It makes me happy to see BT slowly returning to its former self. I've missed the skins. And the Thanks button!

Thank you, Mike, for all of your hard work to keep us clean!



Love & Light,

Rose

[Mike Weins]

Next up is spamo and the re-enabling of registration. Hopefully Tues evening.

EDITED TO ADD: The word censor was neutered today and only has a half dozen words being filtered out now.

[funnylegs4]

Thanks for letting us know about the spam and for fixing it!!

[Mike Weins]

Spam-O-Matic is now re-installed and registration is now open again (yay) :)