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Post by ѻﻭɼﻉ on Oct 13, 2020 11:28:46 GMT -5
As you can see from Linearblades schnitzel post, we uncovered that a mod from a long ways back brought in someone named pillow of doom as a vtsf (volunteer staff) to help during a difficult period of time when someone was trolling the forum with massive gore posting. The responsibility of the mass deletion regretfully falls upon the shoulders of your current moderators, because it is our responsibility to consider these possibilities and take security measures, including the removal of inactive vtsf. So we want to apologize for not being more thorough in this matter. Not that it is any excuse for such a blunder, but when year after year things roll along just fine and we have all sorts going on in life, it is easy to be to relaxed about important responsibilities.
At the moment (9:25am pst), we have been investigating the situation and examining admin controls and options to try preventing things like this from happening, and we are in dialogue with proboards trying to see if we can have the data restored. As soon as we have firm conclusions, we will inform you.
So please accept our apology for the mishap, and our gratitude for your patience, continued participation here, and your kind efforts to lend a hand.
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Post by 乃ㄥ卂乙 on Oct 13, 2020 12:05:03 GMT -5
Ok, I'm speaking for myself here. You mods are doing good job for free here(or so you convinced me  and it's not your fault posts got deleted, hence no apologies needed. You haven't deleted those posts, have you... And I think we're all doing just fine without outdated information, people are still here, and that's what counts. Go forum!  |
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Post by spectre729 on Oct 13, 2020 12:06:47 GMT -5
great speech bud. Good luck trying to sort out this hot mess that we have...
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Post by ѻﻭɼﻉ on Oct 13, 2020 12:17:37 GMT -5
乃ㄥ卂乙 thanks. But even though we didn’t do the deletion, that deletion was only possible because of a lack of follow through in our security protocols. One of my clients lost 2 weeks worth of cancer research data to hackers because of a lack of follow through on one particular protocol by an IT guy. You can’t say it was the hackers fault when it was the IT guy whose responsibility it was to prevent it. As for loss of info being no big deal, even though we continue, not only was there a lot of useful recent information there put together with a lot of time and effort, there is interest in keeping an archive of the entire history of War Robots and there are plenty of people who access that vintage information. So we definitely don’t take the loss lightly. Nevertheless I agree, we carry on with our friendships and benefiting from our current work in the forum. ✌🏻
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Post by mechtout on Oct 13, 2020 12:35:13 GMT -5
thanks mods, you guys do a great job.
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Recruit
Posts: 7
Karma: 8
Pilot name: Lt Cmdr Worf
Platform: iOS
Clan: Crimson Lance
League: Master
Server Region: North America
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Post by kgator on Oct 13, 2020 12:48:03 GMT -5
Bummer, probably half the questions I asked about weapons and robots on Google Search came back referencing posts on this board. I hope some of those are cached by Google.
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Post by linearblade on Oct 13, 2020 13:16:32 GMT -5
As you can see from Linearblades schnitzel post, we uncovered that a mod from a long ways back brought in someone named pillow of doom as a vtsf (volunteer staff) to help during a difficult period of time when someone was trolling the forum with massive gore posting. The responsibility of the mass deletion regretfully falls upon the shoulders of your current moderators, because it is our responsibility to consider these possibilities and take security measures, including the removal of inactive vtsf. So we want to apologize for not being more thorough in this matter. Not that it is any excuse for such a blunder, but when year after year things roll along just fine and we have all sorts going on in life, it is easy to be to relaxed about important responsibilities. At the moment (9:25am pst), we have been investigating the situation and examining admin controls and options to try preventing things like this from happening, and we are in dialogue with proboards trying to see if we can have the data restored. As soon as we have firm conclusions, we will inform you. So please accept our apology for the mishap, and our gratitude for your patience, continued participation here, and your kind efforts to lend a hand. 🙏🏻 If this was a hack, is it possible that Proboards might make an exception to their tos I’d the account in question said something to the effect of “I was hacked pls undo this?” |
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Post by ѻﻭɼﻉ on Oct 13, 2020 13:27:02 GMT -5
linearblade that’s the thing, it was not a hack. The guy was given vtsf access a long time ago and we hadn’t removed that status. So he had access to the killswitch. The thing we are looking into now is how to limit the abilities of vtsf should we need that help again. Thx for following up on this stuff
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Post by linearblade on Oct 13, 2020 13:42:26 GMT -5
linearblade that’s the thing, it was not a hack. The guy was given vtsf access a long time ago and we hadn’t removed that status. So he had access to the killswitch. The thing we are looking into now is how to limit the abilities of vtsf should we need that help again. Thx for following up on this stuff So he deliberately Deleted it? |
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Post by Sgt. Beacon on Oct 13, 2020 13:45:59 GMT -5
I appreciate this website.
I especially appreciate the job that all the mods do.
I had been a gaming server admin for almost 10 yrs. Dealing with the problems as a mod can suck. I once screwed up an update. Myself and the senior mods were trying to figure out what or how things went wrong. To cut it short. The admin at the server farm had to do a reformat and reinstall.
So myself, and hopefully others don't expect y'all to be perfect. The situation of lost knowledge always sucks. But, can be rebuilt.
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Post by eluray on Oct 13, 2020 13:53:07 GMT -5
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Post by eluray on Oct 13, 2020 13:56:43 GMT -5
linearblade that’s the thing, it was not a hack. The guy was given vtsf access a long time ago and we hadn’t removed that status. So he had access to the killswitch. The thing we are looking into now is how to limit the abilities of vtsf should we need that help again. Thx for following up on this stuff See post above, i messed up with tagging |
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Post by Danny Linguini on Oct 13, 2020 16:39:16 GMT -5
I second 乃ㄥ卂乙. Unless you guys eat sleep and drink this stuff, it’s not likely you’d have known that ability even existed for VTSF. Hell, I was one and I didn’t even know I had it. So, some information got lost; if it was really useful and still relevant, it will make its way back here one way or another. The forum is still operational, and active members are still active, and that’s what’s important - the community will continue to thrive. To my knowledge nobody is pointing a finger of blame at anybody except the one who actually did it. And call me a sentimental old fool, but I’d even go out on a limb and suggest it almost seems to have brought the community just a little closer together. Apology not accepted.  |
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Post by #1 worst pilot on Oct 13, 2020 19:19:29 GMT -5
Jeeeeesssuuuuusss cchhhrrriiissst I step away for a few days and the whole place burned down. Smh
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Post by gravediggers on Oct 13, 2020 23:15:15 GMT -5
O thank God the Pandemic made me free from my silly threads O for shame the threads that I put on the form now they are gone . Thank God for this new fresh start ☺😝🤪😜😛🤑😷😎
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Post by hi5 on Oct 17, 2020 14:54:10 GMT -5
Whoa - forum got recovered!?! Yay!!!!!!
Good job Mods and everyone who made it happen!
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Post by Danny Linguini on Oct 17, 2020 16:01:40 GMT -5
Yes, yes, yes — just saw all the old posts back. Great job, guys!!
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Post by S1E1 on Oct 17, 2020 17:10:00 GMT -5
Great job guys!
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Post by integeritis on Oct 17, 2020 17:19:43 GMT -5
I was just...checking NexusBlade 's post history, and then I got to September, and it hit me: wait, I souldn't be able to see this.
Awesome guys! Thanks goes to all of you for making this happen and to ProBoards for being understanding and helping us despite their strict rules!
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Post by milty72 on Oct 17, 2020 17:27:02 GMT -5
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Post by punishingcossack on Oct 17, 2020 18:13:33 GMT -5
how did the admins manage to convince proboards to carve out an exception?
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Post by NexusBlade on Oct 17, 2020 18:25:52 GMT -5
I was just...checking NexusBlade 's post history, and then I got to September, and it hit me: wait, I souldn't be able to see this.
Awesome guys! Thanks goes to all of you for making this happen and to ProBoards for being understanding and helping us despite their strict rules!
Guess I'm popular now, lol. On a serious note, it's great to have everything back, A lot of history I would hate to see simply deleted. |
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Post by Sgt. Beacon on Oct 17, 2020 18:26:40 GMT -5
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Post by Pulse Hadron on Oct 17, 2020 19:33:05 GMT -5
Amazing! Thank you! Congratulations! And who and how? I have a court case coming up and need a good lawyer  |
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Post by gravediggers on Oct 17, 2020 19:44:03 GMT -5
 Thanks for bringing back my silly posts |
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Post by Pulse Hadron on Oct 17, 2020 20:05:58 GMT -5
Thank you again so much for bringing this back but just want to inform you in case you don’t know that the search function doesn’t seem to identify anything before the event. I was trying to find a year old post of mine about “Loki speed” but only a handful of recent posts with Loki and Speed came back. I managed to find it with a site specific duck duck go search though.
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Post by punishingcossack on Oct 17, 2020 20:47:26 GMT -5
Thank you again so much for bringing this back but just want to inform you in case you don’t know that the search function doesn’t seem to identify anything before the event. I was trying to find a year old post of mine about “Loki speed” but only a handful of recent posts with Loki and Speed came back. I managed to find it with a site specific duck duck go search though. This would be b/c it's a backend thing. Looks like when they restored our old posts, they either didn't reindex them (Elasticsearch), or it's actually happening right now in the background and the job hasn't been completed yet |
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Post by mechtout on Oct 18, 2020 1:12:22 GMT -5
Mods are 「deteriorated bum-bum」
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Post by tekwarrior on Oct 18, 2020 2:03:35 GMT -5
Great the forum got restored! Hopefully this will never happened again.
Let’s tighten down, limit and restrict Admin access and roles. Ensure that you all have complex passwords.
Also, any way to have routine backups?
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Post by erik1 on Oct 18, 2020 2:32:13 GMT -5
No wonder you have all these likes, ѻﻭɼﻉ. We can appreciate your admitting a mistake and fixing it, along with all the work you do in general voluntarily. Thank you very much. I believe I speak for everyone when I say "No hard feelings, things happen, keep up the good work," anything positive about your work that comes to mind. |
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and it's not your fault posts got deleted, hence no apologies needed. You haven't deleted those posts, have you...
