PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: 2FA NOW MANDATORY - YOU DON'T NEED A PHONE NUMBER FFS

[Crispy]

Recently one of our more... prolific posters had his account compromised, after which the perpetrator apparently went on a mass-deletion spree which has fouled up all the threads this particular user participated in. Needless to say it has caused some consternation and poor Twiglard now can't get any sleep because he has to sort all this out.

If you haven't already, you need to enable and start using our two-step verification feature (also known as two-factor authentication, or 2FA) which you can find in the security section of your settings.

You have two choices: you can set it to use an app like Authy which you install on your cell phone and every month have to launch to verify the code, or you can just use an alternate email address to do the same thing. The app is recommended, because it's more of a stringent security system, but many of you are probably either too poor to afford a smart phone or you haven't upgraded from your dad's ancient flip phone yet.

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Edit by Tal: Theoretically, the above is correct. In practice, however, we've seen that the e-mail option is unreliable (sometimes the authentication e-mails fail to be delivered for one reason or another). As failing to get those auth e-mails will prevent you from using the Codex, and we all know that that is a fate worse than death, do yourself a favour and DON'T USE THE E-MAIL OPTION.

We recommend using one of a number of mobile authenticator apps, such as: 2FAS, Aegis, Google Authenticator, Duo, Microsoft Authenticator, Authy

If you're a PayPal user, we strongly recommend enabling 2FA in your PayPal account as well and adding it to your authenticator app of choice.
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2FA. Learn it. Live it. Love it.

Don't be that guy.

Thank you.

- The Administration

 

[whydoibother]

Is the forum slower for anyone else? Its very sluggish for me.

 

[Crispy]

It should be better now. Twiglard's doing a good job of cleaning it all up.

 

[whydoibother]

It should be better now. Twiglard's doing a good job of cleaning it all up.

I hope he is well compensated for his janitorial work.

 

[Twiglard]

I was almost done with manually undeleting the posts but then Talu came along with a payware addon that automatically undeletes all posts by a user before given date. Thanks.

 

[whydoibother]

manually undeleting the posts

Weren't there a thousand posts?

 

[smaug]

Who was the user?

 

[Tacgnol]

Considering this mostly seemed to be targetted at the Ukraine thread, I do find it somewhat hilarious that someone presumably got butthurt enough at DarkPatriot's pro-Ukraine posting to go to the effort of compromising his account and deleting the posts.

 

[Crispy]

The Trump thread was affected as well.

 

[Maxie]

The Trump thread was affected as well.

you mean there's a trump-russia collusion?

 

[Infinitron]

This also happened to dextermorgan last month.

There are butthurt lunatics in the Ukraine War thread who WILL try to find your credentials in database leaks and break into your account. You have been warned.

 

[Russia is over. The end.]

Russian hackers again? Except for real this time.

 

[Zlaja]

Ukraine thread

*shrugs*

The Trump thread

YOU MOTHERFUCKER!!!

 

[Russia is over. The end.]

Also advice to russian hackers, how about your edit his posts into anti-ukraine stance next time using chatgpt. That should be a) funnier and b) harder to revert.

 

[lukaszek]

how many posts need to be purged from a thread in order to trigger this? Is it raw count, percentage? Any other factors like min thread length?
asking for a friend

 

[whydoibother]

how many posts need to be purged from a thread in order to trigger this? Is it raw count, percentage? Any other factors like min thread length?
asking for a friend

The standard length of 1 page, plus a few more to compensate for people posting.

 

[Crispy]

It could theoretically be just one post because eventually down the line it's going to add up to one of the pages not being on the page it was supposed to be on before.

So the mass deletion didn't leave any placeholders? Twiglard, is that right?

 

[Peachcurl]

Frankly don't understand why we even have a delete feature when it can get that bad.

Edit would suffice.

 

[Crispy]

Frankly don't understand why we even have a delete feature when it can get that bad.

That's the point of my post above: when you delete a post here, it's just hidden from public view. That retains the thread structure, without which the thread breaks.

 

[Peachcurl]

Frankly don't understand why we even have a delete feature when it can get that bad.

That's the point of my post above: when you delete a post here, it's just hidden from public view. That retains the thread structure, without which the thread breaks.

Ah, makes sense. Guess then you're also right to suspect it doesn't work as intended.

 

[lukaszek]

It could theoretically be just one post because eventually down the line it's going to add up to one of the pages not being on the page it was supposed to be on before.

So the mass deletion didn't leave any placeholders? Twiglard, is that right?

so in order to test it properly one should create post on 1st page of many threads, delete and see which ones get broken?
In before 'so 666 is the limit'

 

[smaug]

WHO WAS THE FUCKING USER CRISPY?

 

[Stavrophore]

Meh, just add dillposters to ignore. And listen to King Crispy, his post give me a vibe of a crusty father who have trouble showing emotions, but deep down loves and cares.

 

[Crispy]

Update: The Ukraine thread is still acting weird. We suspect China this time. Stand by.

 

[Stavrophore]

Chynese had learned about darkpatriot work for NSA, they can't let his shilling on niche forum.