sean Posted April 17, 2007 I woke up this morning to seeing that hundreds of spam messages were sent out by dozens of fake members of Tao Bums last night. First I turned off the ability to send pms and emails until full membership (after Lobby post). Then, half asleep, in an attempt to mass prune fake members, I accidentally deleted every member that had joined since February, 2007. Total of 337 members. Pretty bad. So I had to restore an older database from last night, meaning any posts made today were lost. I am looking into ways that I can import all the posts made in the difference between last night and today but it's possible I won't be able to figure it out. Really sorry about my mistake. Sean Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Yoda Posted April 17, 2007 Your life and work is proof of Adya's philosophy of well-being-ness. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TwoTrees Posted April 18, 2007 My, my ... what a mess. How fortunate we are that you dedicate yourself to working on this kind of thing! I was thinking as some of the new members were piling up, and I noticed some of the screen names they were using ... all I could do was scratch my head and laugh ... But there was a time a while back when I browsed through the extensive pages of members (I think is nearing 20 pages, what used to be 5-7 in the middle of last year, heheheh) and saw that more than half of them had never made a post at all (and some of them were members for quite a while in certain cases). So here is a suggestion of a person who is web-tweaking challenged: Perhaps you could send out a standard PM to all the members who have not yet made a post to see what their intentions are, even if they are just wanting to read, they could post an introduction, so that you can better gauge them for a genuine person who is interested in the Tao and not the ones who are just geared to proposing their enlarging products or various sneek-a-peek sites and the like. Give them an amount of time to answer, and if none, just delete. Would that be constructive, at all? Or just too much of a pain in the arse? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mYTHmAKER Posted April 18, 2007 Really sorry about my mistake. Shame on you Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gendao Posted May 18, 2007 This is an unrelated ?, but how come when I pull up threads now only the first post shows and all the rest show up in a tree underneath? How do I reset it to where they all just show up one after another in pages? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
