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What the hell?!

by Deb » Thu Aug 04, 2016 4:04 pm

What's going on with the gacked up boards?! Someone has hacked several forums with strange characters.

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Re: What the hell?!

by Scott » Thu Aug 04, 2016 4:39 pm

Korean spammers.

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Re: What the hell?!

by Bob Sihler » Thu Aug 04, 2016 9:21 pm

I just cleaned it up.

To any elves reading this-- remember not to delete spammers unless you have access to the Administrative Control Panel. When you delete a user without using the ACP, all the forum posts remain and have to be deleted manually. Someone deleted "bohokrice" or something like that and left all the posts.
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Re: What the hell?!

by Nader1 » Thu Dec 08, 2016 5:26 am

I lost my power from 19 to 8 in one hour. how is this possible?
Thanks

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Re: What the hell?!

by Gangolf Haub » Thu Dec 08, 2016 7:46 am

Nader1 wrote:I lost my power from 19 to 8 in one hour. how is this possible?
Thanks

There was an error in the power calculation formula which resulted in points going up when you deleted objects. That bug was fixed last night.

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Re: What the hell?!

by alpinbeta » Thu Dec 08, 2016 5:53 pm

Nader1 wrote:I lost my power from 19 to 8 in one hour. how is this possible?
Thanks


I also lost my power points from 231 to 216 on december 7th ???

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Re: What the hell?!

by rgg » Thu Dec 08, 2016 8:30 pm

alpinbeta wrote:
Nader1 wrote:I lost my power from 19 to 8 in one hour. how is this possible?
Thanks


I also lost my power points from 231 to 216 on december 7th ???


Some people lost more points, others less, some none at all.

The cause is the same bug fix to the power points calculation that Gangolf mentions above. Due to the bug, when you would delete an object that you owned, it would still be counted in the daily calculation of your power points, and contribute to your total. Though not for all object types, some would actually contribute more after they were deleted than before! Since the fix, deleted objects are not counted anymore, as it should be. The loss of 15 power points implicates that you had a small number of such objects.

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Re: What the hell?!

by Josh Lewis » Sat Dec 10, 2016 5:34 am

I lost points too, not treading any tears. I'm completely in favor of the latest change. 8)

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Re: What the hell?!

by lcarreau » Wed Jan 25, 2017 7:18 pm

I lost my power the other day. I had to get out a match so I could light a few candles.
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