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Security update and reminder
« on: January 27, 2011, 08:12:20 pm »
Due to recent abuse, we have decided to increase the minimum post count requirement to rate posts. Instead of 5 posts you now need 20, like OmnomIRC.

Also we would like to remind people who use public computers (including home computers that their family use) to log out from the site when they leave, to avoid their forum account being used for malicious intent or compromised.
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Re: Security update and reminder
« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2011, 08:15:26 pm »
Ah, yeah, that seems useful. That will help to prevent active members from having ratings drop to negatives for no valid reason...
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Re: Security update and reminder
« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2011, 08:31:21 pm »
Oh, i have been logging on in school pc's.
Over the past week, i have used about 15 computers.

Is it possible to have the default time on the pc be 60 min instead of forever on a different IP address than you normally use?
And be forever on the IP address you decide?
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Re: Security update and reminder
« Reply #3 on: January 27, 2011, 08:37:39 pm »
Actually having the default be 60 is probably best. If you want to log in forever, all you have to do is change it once anyway
« Last Edit: January 27, 2011, 08:38:01 pm by squidgetx »
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Re: Security update and reminder
« Reply #4 on: January 27, 2011, 08:57:25 pm »
Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on January 27, 2011, 08:12:20 pm
Due to recent abuse, we have decided to increase the minimum post count requirement to rate posts. Instead of 5 posts you now need 20, like OmnomIRC.

Also we would like to remind people who use public computers (including home computers that their family use) to log out from the site when they leave, to avoid their forum account being used for malicious intent or compromised.
out of curiosity, waht happened to make this happen? D:
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Re: Security update and reminder
« Reply #5 on: January 27, 2011, 09:01:51 pm »
"Recent abuse" :P
To be more serious, it's up to DJ whether or not he wants to reveal what happened, though there doesn't seem to be any reason not too; the abusers are very new members, it seems.
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Re: Security update and reminder
« Reply #6 on: January 27, 2011, 09:05:41 pm »
Quote from: qazz42 on January 27, 2011, 08:57:25 pm
Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on January 27, 2011, 08:12:20 pm
Due to recent abuse, we have decided to increase the minimum post count requirement to rate posts. Instead of 5 posts you now need 20, like OmnomIRC.

Also we would like to remind people who use public computers (including home computers that their family use) to log out from the site when they leave, to avoid their forum account being used for malicious intent or compromised.
out of curiosity, waht happened to make this happen? D:
Someone called "Thegame" signed up a new account called "i am a troll" to rate up 14 posts on his other account, raising his total rating from -7 to +7. The same person also rated all posts up on a topic page a few months ago. Also someone used Bwang account at his home to rate up/down about 30 posts, including a 2 years old thread.
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Re: Security update and reminder
« Reply #7 on: January 27, 2011, 09:13:20 pm »
What a troll. <sic>
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Re: Security update and reminder
« Reply #8 on: January 27, 2011, 09:17:17 pm »
Indeed. I am curious who Thegame was, though (as in, if it was just a new member wanting to have fun here or a former user that got banned ages ago). The many IP addresses used from various countries thing was a bit suspicious, since generally when you use that many proxies it's to evade a ban :P
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Re: Security update and reminder
« Reply #9 on: January 27, 2011, 09:54:37 pm »
ah, makes sense. I thought that thegame was cool tohugh... :(
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Re: Security update and reminder
« Reply #10 on: January 28, 2011, 10:52:58 am »
Usually, on school computers, they use Deep Freeze, so everything you did gets erased and reverted back to the state it was when the computer was installed on reboot. So if your computer has such a thing, it's probably best to reboot it to erase all traces of your visit on Omnimaga on this computer.
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Re: Security update and reminder
« Reply #11 on: January 28, 2011, 11:02:56 am »
wow... I knew I am a troll was a troll, though I am not a troll, because it's I am a troll who is indeed a troll, unlike me, who is not a troll unlike I am a troll.

...more seriously, that's pretty bad to have another account to rate up your posts.  zzCoRRoDe rated up about 3 posts of mine a while ago, but that was acutally my friend, and he was just being nice. 

So, are you confident "i am a troll" was the same as TheGame?  Some people actually do come back in a new accoutn to either up their old accouts in some form or just to start with no bias from the community.  Though, trust me, it sucks when you're blamed for it even when you never made another account.  On TKZ I was always so pissed that people were calling me a troll that made a "new" account to start over again, and they even just responded to my projects calling me "Hallo1198" (the other troll guy they thought I was) and "shut up troll" that eventually, it became a self-fulfilling prophecy wishing their site would just die and lived up to be a troll after all. 

While I don't want that to happen to TheGame, I DO trust DJ's opinions enough to know that he wouldn't have come to a decision with no proof.  I actually wondered what happened to that "TheGame" guy, and who he was.  And for him to sign up with a name personifying our site's biggest meme, he would probably have to know a lot about the site, much more than a simple lurker would.  So, my guess he may have been one of those people from a while ago that apparently attacked omnimaga so much it had to close in 2008, or he was banned sometime after that.

So, good decision DJ, I'll stop my rant :)

Also, what do you think happened with Bwang's account?  I really doubt he would have done that... maybe his kid brother or something? (stupid guess)
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Re: Security update and reminder
« Reply #12 on: January 28, 2011, 11:06:08 am »
Ashbad, actually, it is his kid brother. his brother's goal is to get bwang banned from omni `-`
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Re: Security update and reminder
« Reply #13 on: January 28, 2011, 11:10:56 am »
whoa, good guess on my part, I really just pulled that one out of my hat. O.O

EDIT: my sausage hat

wow... his brother is really a douche then.  Why would he do that, unless he hates bwang that much?  Maybe someone should email bwang and prompt him to change his password.
« Last Edit: January 28, 2011, 11:11:14 am by Ashbad »
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Re: Security update and reminder
« Reply #14 on: January 28, 2011, 11:41:38 am »
Quote from: Ashbad on January 28, 2011, 11:10:56 am
Maybe someone should email bwang and prompt him to change his password.
This and set his password remembering settings to Never on login. And logout after usage, of course.
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