Been seeing this on my screen for up to 30min when trying to view the site.
User '12345' has exceeded the 'max_questions' resource (current value: 100000)
I seriously doubt that I am user 12345. ;]
Mags
I got the same message several times
Quote from: Newton II on October 15, 2012, 02:42:05 AM
I got the same message several times
I got also the same message several times
Will user 12345 please stand up and stop exceeding the maximum questions resource (There is no value in this)
I'm with powercat on this one....User 12345 must stand and promise to tone down his or her curiosity level.
I hear it's what killed Schrodinger's Cat.
TS
Me too.
ETA (after another hour or so glitch)....even stranger, I'll be looking at the site, go to refresh a page or to another thread, and I get a "site not found" error from my ISP, as if the name server couldn't resolve the address. I can still load other sites so I know it's not the ISP. This started happening a couple of days ago about the same time as the User 12345 thing.
Yeah. It seems to last 10min up to 30 min here.
Seems to happen more when hitting the post button for starters.
Mags
I find that I have to un-notify a thread and then re-engage the notify function constantly, or I do not get notified of new posts on selected threads.
Regards...
After extensive backtracking, criss-crossing several time zones, I was able to snag the following info...
ZoneFiltrator (http://www.koreaittimes.com/images/imagecache/large/hacker.jpg)
Unfortunately the perpetrator masked himself fairly well.
Next time...!
TS
Quote from: Cap-Z-ro on October 15, 2012, 08:08:14 PM
I find that I have to un-notify a thread and then re-engage the notify function constantly, or I do not get notified of new posts on selected threads.
Regards...
Yep. Since it mostly happens when hitting the post button, it shows the message, then I click back to the post page with my post still there. When the site works again, I have to copy, go back to the thread or quote and past for the post button to work.
maybe its Wilby. :o ;) ;D
Mags
Hmmm. now I'm getting the notifications again...without re doing anything.
Thanks Wilby...
Over 24 hours without the site, that user 12345 has a lot to answer,
or did someone post some classified information, LOL
I must say the site has been running very well until now, much better than it was last year.
Why still nobody named this problem? This site is INFECTED!!! I N F E C T E D ! ! A hacker invasion? Maybe our Iran friends? "Iran is our friend"??
About two weeks ago there was such event in my bank: I was unable to reach my accounts several hours, later I've read in the news that they invaded several banks, including mine.
Minutes ago I was able to reach this site after two days of receiving only "403 Forbidden" message (see attachment). Then again the "1234" something and now I could reach it again somehow.
Quote from: Qwert on October 17, 2012, 02:04:31 PM
Minutes ago I was able to reach this site after two days of receiving only "403 Forbidden" message (see attachment). Then again the "1234" something and now I could reach it again somehow.
Stefan,
Qwert,
I was unable to reach overunity.com for close to
2 days, too.
The error displayed was: "403 Forbidden".
What was going on ?
Quote from: Qwert on October 17, 2012, 02:04:31 PM
Why still nobody named this problem? This site is INFECTED!!! I N F E C T E D ! !
Why do you think it is infected?
The message "exceeded the 'max_questions' resource" rather points to to a DOS attack or some misconfiguration.
Most likely it as an internal database user - not a forum user. Can the Administrator confirm that, please?
The 403 error suggests that somebody was moving files during that time.
Most likely the Administrator in an attempt to back up or repair the site.
I couldn't reach this site since yesterday morning. Perhaps the MIB are trying to shut us down?
Whatever the reason........
We're baaaaaaaaaaaaaaakkkkkkkk.
I sent an e-mail to Stefan today wondering if he needed any help. I checked the Whois site for OU and the registration is good till some time in 2013 so it was not about forgetting to continue the domain name. That was good to see. So it is a technical issue. That I can live with since it happens to the best of us. Funny how we seem to forget to appreciate Stefans work on this forum until the lights go out. Stefan, you iz the man. hehehe
wattsup
Quote from: wattsup on October 17, 2012, 04:31:58 PM
Whatever the reason........
We're baaaaaaaaaaaaaaakkkkkkkk.
I sent an e-mail to Stefan today wondering if he needed any help. I checked the Whois site for OU and the registration is good till some time in 2013 so it was not about forgetting to continue the domain name. That was good to see. So it is a technical issue. That I can live with since it happens to the best of us. Funny how we seem to forget to appreciate Stefans work on this forum until the lights go out. Stefan, you iz the man. hehehe
wattsup
Thank you Stefan! Glad were back! ;D
Yep I wrote Stefan and then also emailed the hosting service servage.net to ask if they knew of this problem. They wrote back surprisingly fast and said they were aware of it and working on it. It was down all day here. Glad to see things are back and working.
I got the "12345" message just now but recovered quickly. Only once. ;]
Mags
Quote from: Magluvin on October 17, 2012, 09:06:10 PM
I got the "12345" message just now but recovered quickly. Only once. ;]
Mags
I could not get on last night either and, I received the same 12345 message 3 times this evening as well.
Very glad we are back. Thanks Stefan.
Bill
Quote from: Pirate88179 on October 17, 2012, 11:33:56 PM
I could not get on last night either and, I received the same 12345 message 3 times this evening as well.
Very glad we are back. Thanks Stefan.
Bill
We just hope we are back. I'm still uncertain if, when I want to see another thread after this, if it will work. It happened after my visit several hours ago; I guess it requires some kind of action, like reboot or so after visiting each thread separately. Hope this time is different. Let's check...
edit
looks like it works now; I am able to return here repetitively and even see other threads without any error messages (!!!) ;D ;D
can't you see that's the flying spaghetti monster trying to tell you something...
she is upset with these godbots repeating the same logical fallacies over and over.
Quote from: Magluvin on October 15, 2012, 02:07:23 AM
Been seeing this on my screen for up to 30min when trying to view the site.
User '12345' has exceeded the 'max_questions' resource (current value: 100000)
I seriously doubt that I am user 12345. ;]
Mags
The forum owner(Stephan?) should check on http://www.mkyong.com/mysql/how-to-modify-the-max_questions-resource-value-in-mysql/ (http://www.mkyong.com/mysql/how-to-modify-the-max_questions-resource-value-in-mysql/) and change value to at least 1000 000 ... ;)
Also there is explanation about values in http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/user-resources.html - "The max_questions, max_updates, and max_connections columns store the per-hour limits"
Hopefully it helps.
Cheers!
user '12345'
I mean seriously?
Whats your password 'qwerty'
Wont be long before this site is hacked and possibly everything deleted I hope. its all backed up.
I manage websites for a living. and I have never known a host limiting the number of mysql queries. Its a sign of a hosting plan that is FAR TOO CHEAP.
I strongly suggest moving overunity to a much more resilient host one where you will not run the risk of losing everything in a flash.
12345 is hittin hard tonight. Not only we cannot get on much, but not much is able to get posted to even put an effort 'trying' to load the page. ???
Mags
I got this same starting message of max quotes too and then next log on for 4 days was Forbidden 403 error. we must be on to something!! somewhere I have tree systems here and all were the same errors.
Harti where is the video that was in the second spot last week that had a boxmotor (as the guy descripition said) with six coils and it was about 1.8 feet across upright motor that he was charging TWO auto batteries with at 14 amps with input around very small input from another smaller battery. He was excited and it looked real. The motor kept gaining speed and put out more and more amps at 12VDC approx. ?? Please link us to it again.
Quote from: Hope on October 19, 2012, 02:46:32 AM
Harti where is the video that was in the second spot last week that had a boxmotor (as the guy descripition said) with six coils and it was about 1.8 feet across upright motor that he was charging TWO auto batteries with at 14 amps with input around very small input from another smaller battery. He was excited and it looked real. The motor kept gaining speed and put out more and more amps at 12VDC approx. ?? Please link us to it again.
I think all the vids are on Stefans YT acct. It should be there. ;]
Mags
Quote from: Magluvin on October 19, 2012, 02:52:23 AM
I think all the vids are on Stefans YT acct. It should be there. ;]
Mags
Thx Mags, how exactly would I look him up? Is it Overunity or what?
And I just read about gravity being nothing more than equal pressure from all sides except earth blocks some of that pressure and we are "pushed" down toward the lesser force. Wonder if we can apply that to all forces? (electricity,mags,taxes...wait sry bout that last one)!! But taxes do push us all down a bit.
Quote from: T-1000 on October 18, 2012, 05:19:01 PM
The forum owner(Stephan?) should check on http://www.mkyong.com/mysql/how-to-modify-the-max_questions-resource-value-in-mysql/ (http://www.mkyong.com/mysql/how-to-modify-the-max_questions-resource-value-in-mysql/) and change value to at least 1000 000 ...
Also there is explanation about values in http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/user-resources.html (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/user-resources.html) - "The max_questions, max_updates, and max_connections columns store the per-hour limits"
That's good advice but I think somebody recently updated the max_questions resource limit from 50 000 to 100 000 so they apparently know how to do it.
max_questions is the maximum amount of times the database user "12345" is allowed to query database metadata per hour.
There's a separate
max_queries setting for regular data queries.
The real question is why is the database metadata queried 100 thousand times per hour ?!!!
Maybe some automatic backup process makes that many queries... could it be that both the forum and backup are run by the same database user - the infamous user "12345" ?
...or could it be that so many metadata queries are be caused by some kind of brute force
password cracking run or a D.O.S. attack ?
The Admin should audit the source of so many database metadata queries!
Quote from: CuriousChris on October 18, 2012, 06:27:18 PM
user '12345'
I mean seriously?
Whats your password 'qwerty'
It's worth checking it out ;)
Here is one way to avoid the MAX_QUESTIONS resource error.
More database users can be created and rotated randomly. This way, each user will be given the 100 000 limit.
See here (http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=49523.msg382186#msg382186).
Hi All,
sorry for the late reply.
I was still traveling with only slow GPRS phone network in the last few days, when my hoster Servage decided to close the database, cause it went over 500 MBytes
and after a few hours of debate with them they finally opened it up again and gave me a few more Megabytes.....
Then 2 days later their File server crashed and it took almost 2 days until they got this fixed....
Damn...
Also still sometimes the 100.000 queries per hour still drags the forum down...
Now I will soon move the site to a new hoster and also use a different forum software.
I want to use http://simple-press.com/ and still have to see, how I get this converted to this Wordpress based forum software.
But with using Wordpress as the base software we will have many more features and good plugins to do all much smoother....
So stay tuned...
P.S. Editied The Playlist feature a bit more on the overunity.com homepage, so you can
see now all the single videos inside the playlist by scrolling left or right....so the videos are
faster to access..
Regards, Stefan.
Quote from: hartiberlin on October 19, 2012, 07:54:15 PM
Also still sometimes the 100.000 queries per hour still drags the forum down...
Now I will soon move the site to a new hoster and also use a different forum software.
I want to use http://simple-press.com/ (http://simple-press.com/) and still have to see, how I get this converted to this Wordpress based forum software.
But with using Wordpress as the base software we will have many more features and good plugins to do all much smoother....
Stefan,
I recently tried to migrate from SMF to WordPress. I regret the time I wasted on this. It was hell on earth.
I lost time and data, and the result was awful. Users complained the most about WordPress being slow (despite the same server) and wasting screen space (less info fit on their screen)
I don't recommend it.
P.S.
I think it is a good idea to move to a better hosting plan. 500MB database limit and 100 000 query limit and fileserver crashes are a joke and constitute evidence that the present hosting provider is not treating you seriously and is
overselling their server resources.
I described how to work around the 100 000 database metadata query limit in my previous message.
Just my thoughts on this-
A crashed file server does not take 2 days to fix, a hacked one does.
Wordpress is the most hacked CMS around, and its a blog not a forum. Take a site this size and run it through a plug-in to convert WP and you are in for trouble.
100000 queries per hour are most likely you AND the other sites that are sharing your MySql server.
500mb Db is huge- you have got some cleaning up to do there :o
Be careful switching hosting providers, its very easy to go from bad to worse.
Take a look at IP.Board, its fast and offers a free converter for SMF
Whatever you do good luck- its a lot of work :-\
Quote from: verpies on October 19, 2012, 08:08:06 PM
Stefan,
I recently tried to migrate from SMF to WordPress. I regret the time I wasted on this. It was hell on earth.
I lost time and data, and the result was awful. Users complained the most about WordPress being slow (despite the same server) and wasting screen space (less info fit on their screen)
I don't recommend it.
What Wordpress forum did you choose ?
Also Simple Press ? Which version ?
Regards, Stefan.
If this demo page of simple:press is any indication of how slow the software is, I would avoid this software!
http://demo.simple-press.com/
Try just scrolling up and down....ridiculously-slow! :o
Quote from: hartiberlin on October 21, 2012, 11:38:52 AM
What Wordpress forum did you choose ?
Also Simple Press ? Which version ?
I tried v3.4 and when I started having all those complaints I downgraded to v3.3 with meager improvement.
I tried SimplePress only on v3.4
Problems continue.
After depressing "Quote", the page scrolls down to the "Quick Reply" box, the box remains blank, without any quote, only at top of this page appears a whole page wide box with "Loading..." info. After five minutes waiting, I lost my patience and quit to reply.
Quote from: verpies on October 21, 2012, 06:47:51 PM
I tried v3.4 and when I started having all those complaints I downgraded to v3.3 with meager improvement.
I tried SimplePress only on v3.4
They have now already version 5.1.4 !
Will be testing it in the next few days.
Tommorow I will get another hoster space and move the whole domain to it...
I had to prepare a few things and disabled all moderators now.
Regards, Stefan.
Quote from: Qwert on October 22, 2012, 09:11:40 AM
Problems continue.
After depressing "Quote", the page scrolls down to the "Quick Reply" box, the box remains blank, without any quote, only at top of this page appears a whole page wide box with "Loading..." info. After five minutes waiting, I lost my patience and quit to reply.
Must be on your end.
Here with Firefox 16.0.1
it works flawlessley... only problem I have is with my
Android 2.2 phone I can not post,
but I will also have a mobile website soon for it or maybe also
an Android app to access overunity.com even better...
Regards, Stefan.
Quote from: hartiberlin on October 22, 2012, 10:38:38 PM
Must be on your end.
Here with Firefox 16.0.1
it works flawlessley... only problem I have is with my
Android 2.2 phone I can not post,
but I will also have a mobile website soon for it or maybe also
an Android app to access overunity.com even better...
Regards, Stefan.
The issue doesn't return since refreshing the page.
Quote from: hartiberlin on October 22, 2012, 10:36:32 PM
They have now already version 5.1.4 !
WordPress v5.1.4 ? Are you sure?
Maybe you mean that plugin version for WordPress (SimplePress)...
Quote from: hartiberlin on October 22, 2012, 10:36:32 PM
Will be testing it in the next few days.
Then test if the conversion process will destroy the embedded links.
For example the link to the scope shot in this message (http://www.overunity.com/12736/kapanadze-cousin-dally-free-energy/msg341209/#msg341209).
Also, will that table (http://www.overunity.com/12736/kapanadze-cousin-dally-free-energy/msg341209/#msg341209) survive the conversion process?
Quote from: verpies on October 24, 2012, 09:53:34 AM
WordPress v5.1.4 ? Are you sure?
Maybe you mean that plugin version for WordPress (SimplePress)...
Then test if the conversion process will destroy the embedded links.
For example the link to the scope shot in this message (http://www.overunity.com/12736/kapanadze-cousin-dally-free-energy/msg341209/#msg341209).
Also, will that table (http://www.overunity.com/12736/kapanadze-cousin-dally-free-energy/msg341209/#msg341209) survive the conversion process?
Well, no I meant Wordpress 3.4.2 or waht the latest is and
Simple-Press.com v5.1.4 forum plugin...
Well I will test it first with some other forum, so I will make sure that the conversion runs
smoothly...
Regards, Stefan.
I am still getting the user 12345 message. I tried for 30 minutes to get on and kept getting that message. Then, I was on for a minute and tried to answer a pm and when I hit send...I got the 12345 message again.
I am glad I was able to post this message.
Bill
Quote from: Pirate88179 on October 25, 2012, 09:59:13 PM
I am still getting the user 12345 message. I tried for 30 minutes to get on and kept getting that message. Then, I was on for a minute and tried to answer a pm and when I hit send...I got the 12345 message again.
I am glad I was able to post this message.
Bill
Same here, about 30 min. Seems like forever sometimes. That particular problem cant be fixed?
There has also been an issue with right click menu ever since the new home page changes. Its been a while. No paste in the right click menu. Have to Ctrl v to paste. Copy works.
I dont have this problem with any other sites.
Mags
Mags:
Now that you mention it, I have had to use the EDIT feature of my browser to copy or paste. Right click does nothing. Even the spell check feature does not work with right click on a red underlined misspelled word. This has been for a few months now.
Bill
Quote from: Pirate88179 on October 25, 2012, 11:59:10 PM
Mags:
Now that you mention it, I have had to use the EDIT feature of my browser to copy or paste. Right click does nothing. Even the spell check feature does not work with right click on a red underlined misspelled word. This has been for a few months now.
Bill
Yeah, sucks no spell check. I just copy a word that Im not sure of correct spelling because it is red lined, and I search yahoo, and it ends up the spelling is correct.
Its really testing my sanity. ;]
Go figure
the issues with the site are because i prayed to the flying spaghetti monster to shut the godtards up... and she answered my prayers. sorry the godtards are spoiling it for the rest of you...
Quote from: WilbyInebriated on October 26, 2012, 01:51:19 AM
the issues with the site are because i prayed to the flying spaghetti monster to shut the godtards up... and she answered my prayers. sorry the godtards are spoiling it for the rest of you...
1 hour waiting to post the first message ... you are not praying so hard
Quote from: Magluvin on October 26, 2012, 01:38:14 AM
Yeah, sucks no spell check. I just copy a word that Im not sure of correct spelling because it is red lined, and I search yahoo, and it ends up the spelling is correct.
Yes, the spell check does not work for me either.
The words get underlined in red but no suggestions appear in the right-click context menu.
Apparently there is some code that intercepts and reprograms the right-click context menu.
Quote from: Magluvin on October 25, 2012, 10:54:09 PM
Same here, about 30 min. Seems like forever sometimes. That particular problem cant be fixed?
It can be fixed easily.
Here (http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=49523.msg382186#msg382186) is one way to avoid the MAX_QUESTIONS resource error for user '12345'.
Quote from: WilbyInebriated on October 26, 2012, 01:51:19 AM
the issues with the site are because i prayed to the flying spaghetti monster to shut the godtards up... and she answered my prayers. sorry the godtards are spoiling it for the rest of you...
Ahh. See, didnt I say that it was probably Wilby that is causing this problem? ;]
What a prediction that was. And then he admits it. The amazing Wilby.
I think he really had some 'nice' things to say about Stefan, leme see if I can find that. ;]
Mags
Quote from: Magluvin on October 26, 2012, 08:29:46 AM
Ahh. See, didnt I say that it was probably Wilby that is causing this problem? ;]
What a prediction that was. And then he admits it. The amazing Wilby.
I think he really had some 'nice' things to say about Stefan, leme see if I can find that. ;]
Mags
it's you godtards causing the problem... ::) all i did was pray to the flying spaghetti monster to put an end to the ignorance you vomit everywhere. maybe you should pray to your precious baby jesus to fix the forum?
I am moving today the site to the new hoster.
Stay tuned...
Hopefully all will be good afterwards...
First I will still use thze SMF forum software and later upgrade to the Simple-Press.com software ....
Regards, Stefan.
Okay, after some issues I now finally have the site now on the new hosting server...
Hopefully this will work now all okay.
Until the DSN change ihas been gone through all the nameservers on the Internet
you already can access the site via:
http://overunity.com.dd21406.kasserver.com (http://overunity.com.dd21406.kasserver.com)
after about 48 hours the site should again be available as just
http://www.overunity.com (http://www.overunity.com)
Many thanks for your patience.
Best regards, Stefan.
P.S: in the next days I will then work on the
switch to the other forum software but when this will
come up I will still
post some announcements first...
P.P.S:
Please post here, if you still find any nonworking pages or postings...
or missing attachments...
Many thanks..
Quote from: hartiberlin on October 27, 2012, 10:10:45 PM
Okay, after some issues I now finally have the site now on the new hosting server...
Hopefully this will work now all okay.
Aaaaaaaaaaaa!
You have many V!agra
spam messages !!!
See the main page under the featured videos.
Also, while posting new replies, the spell-checker underlines words in red, buy does not display any suggestions when the underlined word is right-clicked.
Verpies I have never seen so much Spam, it is a regular problem on this site but never seen that much :o
Stefan
The Spam is always from a new member, isn't there a way that new members first post can be moderated, I have seen this function on other forums.
Apart from that so far so good
Who needs a spell checker ?? ;)
Well, I killed now all the spam accounts and put new users on admin aproval only...
This way, I can already see, who wants to register.-..
and decline already there...
Well, I hope this setup now here will work fine until I have the new Simple-Press installation up and running...
Regards, Stefan.
Stefan,
There are several forum features other than the spell checker that have been disabled for quite some time. It would be nice to have those back again, at least with the new forum software.
Yes, these were disabled due to security reasons...
I will see, what I can enable in the upcoming software which will be secure.....
Many thanks.
regards, Stefan.
Thanks, Stefan, for your hard work in moving the site.
I have still had a couple of the same error messages since the move, though. "Can't connect to the database" twice, since the restart. Perhaps just an increased load at those times but still a bit worrisome.
Ill say one thing, this site is much faster than before. Home page loads up a lot quicker. ;]
Mags
Quote from: hartiberlin on October 28, 2012, 10:10:48 AM
Yes, these were disabled due to security reasons...
I will see, what I can enable in the upcoming software which will be secure.....
Many thanks.
regards, Stefan.
Stefan,
You also need to delete these 5 spam boots:
roargowlepelf
invoizofe
Axioririnkile
pupagring
Diuntesee
And while you are at it, you should consider deleting ALL user accounts that have zero posts. Most of
them is probably just spam boots anyway.
GL.
Quote from: Magluvin on October 28, 2012, 12:52:05 PM
Ill say one thing, this site is much faster than before. Home page loads up a lot quicker. ;]
Mags
Seems about the same as before, to me here in South Texas.
Well,
it seems some "Sleeper" users have started to post SPAM all day long today...
Well, yes, I am trying to erase old members with 0 postings right now...
But it takes time as I can only do 25 in one go....
I am working on a solution, but it can take a while...
so be sure that SPAM will be deleted when I am awake...
Have to get some sleep right now...
The moving of this big site was pretty a nightmare with all the changes
at the new hoster... and some broken tables in the database...
Many thanks for your understanding...
P.S: If your member account is lost, cause you had 0 postings,
please register again... Many thanks.
Regards, Stefan.
The home page loads a lot faster for me since the move. I have not seen any user 12345 messages since that time. Great work Stefan.
I like the idea of new users needing to be approved, that should cut down or eliminate those stupid bots.
Thanks for all that you do Stefan.
Bill
Quote from: hartiberlin on October 28, 2012, 02:20:16 PM
Well, yes, I am trying to erase old members with 0 postings right now...
But it takes time as I can only do 25 in one go....
use your database sql statement tool.
DELETE FROM smf_members WHERE posts=0;
and bob's your auntie...
Stefan,
The inline links do not work now.
For example, see the 3 embedded links in this message (http://overunity.com.dd21406.kasserver.com/12736/kapanadze-cousin-dally-free-energy/msg338482/#msg338482).
This is most likely because those links link directly to overunity.com, which temporarily does not exist.
The temporary URL at kasserver.com does not do them justice...
;)
I was trying to post just a smiley face on the real threads to bring them all to the top of the list and push down the huge spam posts. There are so many.
But My trying to do so gave me errors saying that i was posting too fast, less than every 10 seconds. :o lol, I tabbed all the real threads, went through them all to set up a reply page, put up a smiley and posted. I was just a bit too fast for todays technology. ;]
Try to do a good thing and....
Ya know, they have that technology that can recognize any song in less than 5 seconds. You might think that there is a program that recognizes the gibberish in those posts and deletes it so that the sight can run smoother when the captain is not at the helm. ;]
Mags
I finished the smileys in the real posts to push down the spams. ;)
Mags
Looks like they caught up with you.
Tricky lil bastages. It just sucks. Eventually all the real threads are no longer there.
Mags
Something with this spamming. For a while before the smileys I put up, there wasnt any posts and there wasnt any spam. then soon after a post there is a spam or 2.
So it is either 1 of 2 things.
The site software has been compromised, or someone is watching the home page and doing it making it look like a bot.
Mags
Ok, I waited for some time and nobody posted and no spam. Lets see is the spam comes back when I post this
Mags
Well no spam for a few min. Maybe they went to sleep.
Mags
Spam should be impossible withe these 3 points.
1) DELETE FROM smf_members WHERE posts=0.
2) Newbies cannot post until they pass a simple technology test (multiple choice questions) or are vetted by an existing member.
3) Existing members posting spam = instant demotion to a Newbie status (see pt.2), but still having an option to PM and appeal to the Moderator in case somebody (or some trojan) used their account without their knowledge. Mandatory password change.
Also, the button to report a post as spam to the Admin/Mod should work well for all registered users. It would be a good idea to automatically demote a user to Newbie status (see pt.3) if the total spam reports add up to more than 10000 spam points.
These spam points should be counted according to the number of posts made be the spam-reporter.
For example if Magluvin reports some post as a spam then the user that posted it receives 2833 spam points and if Verpies reports it then he receives additional 780 spam points.
Once the spammer receives more than 10000 spam points (or more spam points then the number of his posts), his posting rights are revoked (see pt.3) and his reported posts are automatically deleted or moved to an archive / trash bin.
This way the community would moderate itself even when the Admin is sleeping.
Site definitely does load faster this morning here in South Texas. Good work.
Quote from: WilbyInebriated on October 28, 2012, 05:29:47 PM
use your database sql statement tool.
DELETE FROM smf_members WHERE posts=0;
and bob's your auntie...
I could do this,
but then I will loose many email adresses of all the members who just look
but don´t post...
If we would have an urgent announcement I would miss these people cause they are no longer
in the userdatabase, if I want to send a newsletter out...
Also they would have to reregister then again...
Well, so I better try to fix the postcount moderation, so new users will be put automatically
on moderation...until I see, if they just post spam or not...
Regards, Stefan.
Quote from: verpies on October 28, 2012, 05:46:55 PM
Stefan,
The inline links do not work now.
For example, see the 3 embedded links in this message (http://overunity.com.dd21406.kasserver.com/12736/kapanadze-cousin-dally-free-energy/msg338482/#msg338482).
This is most likely because those links link directly to overunity.com, which temporarily does not exist.
The temporary URL at kasserver.com does not do them justice...
Yes, this is still a temporary URL for this domain...
I had to wait until the Nameserver change went through all the Internet...
I guess by now it should be okay, so I will switch now to the right pathes...
Regards, Stefan.
Okay, I have now changed the pathes to the final
http://www.overunity.com
again and the temporary pathes are removed as the Nameserver changes have been
going through to all name servers.
I also got now the posting´s count moderation to work over here,
so new users have their first posting moderated...
So the postings of spammers will directly go to my moderation qoue
only and will be deleted by me, before they are published.
So now it is senseless to post any spam...
Also I am getting more frustated about hardcore skeptics and these will be deleted
with all their postings, as they are only a waste of time and energy...
Hope this helps to keep up the quality of this forum.
Now I can finally work on the move to the Wordpress platform
and don´t need to care all the time about the spammers...
Regards, Stefan.
Thanks Stefan. Does anyone ever buy anything from spam? If so, they are idiots.
Keep up the good work.
Bill
Wow an end to spam on the forum...... Fantastic news.
I have noticed the difference today that all the pages I click on load at the correct size,
and the speed is really good, is it too early to suggest we might get avatars back ?
I missing seeing bill wearing his hat ;)
Many thanks Stefan it's really good to be in the new place.
QuoteAlso I am getting more frustated about hardcore skeptics and these will be deleted
with all their postings, as they are only a waste of time and energy...
Too bad.
Who wasted more time and energy with Mylow, Steorn, Archer Quinn, Rosemary Ainslie, etc, these hardcore skeptics, or those who blindly believed in what those people -- just mentioning a few -- were trying to put over on you? If it wasn't for your dedicated "hardcore" hardworking, knowledgeable and competent skeptics, you'd still be trying to get your Mylow Magnets mounted to within a tenth of a millimeter like he showed you. For just one example.
Skeptics are not a waste of time.
Stefan is affraid the skeptics will make people lose interest and go away so he misses ad money.
There is nothing wrong with scepticism.
They also deserve a place in the discussion.
Ruling out scepticism pushes the quality of this board below zero.
But it was already there so there is no difference ;D
TK brings up a very good point about people who actually make claims that they have achieved overunity,
they must be challenged we need to find out how feasible their device is as soon as possible,
the world is facing a serious environmental disaster and we desperately need a solution.
Also people who make false claims and give misleading information must be exposed,
If the free energy community and this forum want to maintain any credibility.
The alternative is to be overrun with scams.
Most of the threads on this forum are about research and looking into ways of developing Overunity devices,
Now I'm sure most of us will agree that challenging those people involved in research is not helpful to anyone,
surely we must try and help people researching.
But people who claim they have done it and then they don't prove their case and still say it works
Surely they deserve criticism from any skeptic, we can't save the environment on blind faith.
Yes Powercat but that is not what Stefan wants he want's the discussion to go on for as long as possible so he makes the most money off of it.
If it is proven to be a scam in one day he misses alot of money compared to it becomming a thread of 800 pages which runs for years which means jackpot to him so he want's to rule out the people that try to expose false claims.
I see you are in believe the world is facing a serious environmental disaster and we desperately need a solution.
There are a lot of solutions to this problem but this board is not the correct place to find them.
This board is about Stefan's bank account and not about solving the energy crisis.
If you want to find real solutions you need something else.
@ionizer
If Stefan is only interested in money how come when he was on holiday he visited members in the UK and France
to see their workshops and their research, I don't believe any of them were claiming Overunity.
One of the longest running threads on this forum has nothing to do with a claim of Overunity
It's all about research and people coming together to improve efficiency.
http://www.overunity.com/6123/jule-thief/
And why have I seen Stefan himself doing research and testing and putting his own work on Youtube,
that doesn't sound to me like someone only interested in money.
@Stefan
Do not censor the Scientific Skeptics. See here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_skepticism) for their definition.
If you do this, you will be moving away from the Scientific Method (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method).
@All
The longest thread (http://www.overunity.com/solid-state-devices/sort/views/desc/) on this board had 2 827 909 views so far.
I'm curious, how much "ad money" can be generated by this many views ?
hi harti
the french part of the forum lost the accents ( very difficult to read )
like : à ê é è
Hello all!
My issue is that I got no notify on email when are new post.
Anyone else have this issue? :'(
And I had no option in my profile settings on witch topic I subscribed
P.S. Great forum anyway!
Regards!
Quote from: dorcky on October 30, 2012, 01:38:40 PM
Hello all!
My issue is that I got no notify on email when are new post.
Anyone else have this issue? :'(
And I had no option in my profile settings on witch topic I subscribed
P.S. Great forum anyway!
Regards!
Yes, I no longer get email notifications. I suppose there is still work to be done. Im sure its not all that easy switching servers. Have patients. Things will be all good soon. ;]
Mags
Quote from: verpies on October 30, 2012, 11:48:23 AM
@All
The longest thread (http://www.overunity.com/solid-state-devices/sort/views/desc/) on this board had 2 827 909 views so far.
I'm curious, how much "ad money" can be generated by this many views ?
If you look at the stats in the left side menu above the list of members logged on, it says 327502 posts. There are some threads with more pages than that.
Mags
Quote from: Magluvin on October 30, 2012, 07:15:27 PM
Yes, I no longer get email notifications. I suppose there is still work to be done. Im sure its not all that easy switching servers. Have patients. Things will be all good soon. ;]
Mags
I'm not getting EMs either :'(
Quote from: dorcky on October 30, 2012, 01:38:40 PM
Hello all!
My issue is that I got no notify on email when are new post.
Anyone else have this issue? :'(
And I had no option in my profile settings on witch topic I subscribed
P.S. Great forum anyway!
Regards!
Okay, I will try to reset this all and then you have to edit your own profile again to set
your email notification...
I also have to look up, how the mail settings are...
Could be, that there is still the wrong setting...
I just added french language as an option and now you can choose
in the User menu at the top left broder the language of the forum.
For english speaking users you should set it yourself to English-UTF8...
Regards, Stefan.
Yes, the mail settings were still set to the old ISP, so I changed this now to the new one.
Please let me know, if you receive now the notifications.
Many thanks.
Regards, Stefan.
P.S. No need to modify your own profile I guess now... should work as it was...
Quote from: hartiberlin on October 30, 2012, 09:43:41 PM
P.S. No need to modify your own profile I guess now... should work as it was...
but recents posts are difficult to read ,
like this one
Quote from: quartz on October 25, 2012, 03:09:09 PM
Tagor je te trouve un peu sévère les gens communiques librement sur un forum,
après chacun fait son travail de prévention comme il le peut.
Tu as un désaccord ok !
mais bon la tu vas loin on croirait l'acharnement d'un certain Dédé !!
Je sais que c'est pas toi ça lâche un peu de mou ce serait sympa de ta part.
A+++
Quote
Please let me know, if you receive now the notifications.
it is ok now
A lot of space is taken by those You tube videos, about half a page?, maybe you could make them (embedded) smaller?, if a user wants to see the full size version they can click on the youtube icon in bottom right.
I seem to be seeing a smaller sample (shorter list) of postings since the site upgrade.
@stefan
With my Firefox 16.0.2 latest, At the beginning of the week, when I posted something, I had access to all the Bold and other text buttons. Now I am back to where we were and no longer have them available. I cannot even increase the post field size anymore or add more then one image.
I think you must have done something in the controls to change from the working to non-working.
Please try to find the solution otherwise I have to spend another 5 years in posting torture.
wattsup
Quote from: wattsup on October 31, 2012, 10:53:29 PM
With my Firefox 16.0.2 latest, At the beginning of the week, when I posted something, I had access to all the Bold and other text buttons. Now I am back to where we were and no longer have them available. I cannot even increase the post field size anymore or add more then one image.
I think you must have done something in the controls to change from the working to non-working.
I don't think it's Stefan's fault because everything works fine on my Firefox v16.0.2 (except for the spell-checker).
Also, you are the only one reporting the non-working buttons and edit area resizing problem, but the spell-checker problem has been reported by many users.
@verpies
I don't get it then. My spell checker works but no buttons.
But at the beginning of the week everything worked fine (buttons, spell check, etc.) and I did not make any changes to my Firefox settings.
Man, I had a small taste of normal posting mode and now I am back to the old limitations again.
I guess the new hoster wanted to make feel right at home. lol
wattsup
PS: I found three solid state relays but it was late last night when I got home. Now at work so tonight I have some nice tests to start and will know soon enough about TKs device. hehehe
Ever since the switch over if you want to look at a subforum that is not on the 'Start' page and you click on the left menu item 'Forum' you can't get to any subforums. You get a page that says 'Unable to load the 'main' template.' Not sure if this had been brought up but it's been that way ever since the switch to the new host.
Quote from: e2matrix on November 01, 2012, 11:27:19 AM
Ever since the switch over if you want to look at a subforum that is not on the 'Start' page and you click on the left menu item 'Forum' you can't get to any subforums.
Precisely at what URL the left menu item "Forum" is not functional?
Quote from: wattsup on November 01, 2012, 10:34:46 AM
I don't get it then. My spell checker works but no buttons.
Do you get correct word suggestions, displayed in bold in the context menu, when you right-click on a misspelled word underlined with red wavy line?
My "bold" Link, Glow, Superscript, Subscript , etc... buttons, always worked and still keep working in Firefox v16, when I click the link "Quote" to reply to somebody's message. Maybe you are not clicking it.
Quote from: verpies on November 01, 2012, 02:54:22 PM
Do you get correct word suggestions, displayed in bold in the context menu, when you right-click on a misspelled word underlined with red wavy line?
My "bold" Link, Glow, Superscript, Subscript , etc... buttons, always worked and still keep working in Firefox v16, when I click the link "Quote" to reply to somebody's message. Maybe you are not clicking it.
Yes I do get spelling suggestions. But no character buttons and no "more attachments".
So I am back to square one.
I will be home in an hour so back to my bench.
wattsup
http://www.overunity.com/12736/kapanadze-cousin-dally-free-energy/msg339079/#msg339079
In this link is my post where I translated a russian text. In this new version the russian lettering is missed and the whole post loses its sense entirely.
Quote from: Qwert on November 01, 2012, 05:36:49 PM
http://www.overunity.com/12736/kapanadze-cousin-dally-free-energy/msg339079/#msg339079 (http://www.overunity.com/12736/kapanadze-cousin-dally-free-energy/msg339079/#msg339079)
In this link is my post where I translated a russian text. In this new version the russian lettering is missed and the whole post loses its sense entirely.
I see it, too.
Apparently, the encoding of the character set in the new database is different from the old one.
This is a typical mistake when migrating to a different database.
Quote from: wattsup on November 01, 2012, 04:39:05 PM
Yes I do get spelling suggestions. But no character buttons and no "more attachments".
So I am back to square one.
I will be home in an hour so back to my bench.
wattsup
I have now totally disabled the spellchecker...
Who needs this at all ??
If there are some typos, this is not so much a problem I guess...
I do them also... so it is humanly...
Quote from: Lakes on October 31, 2012, 05:14:08 AM
A lot of space is taken by those You tube videos, about half a page?, maybe you could make them (embedded) smaller?, if a user wants to see the full size version they can click on the youtube icon in bottom right.
I seem to be seeing a smaller sample (shorter list) of postings since the site upgrade.
Hmm,
why not just scroll a bit more ?
It is just the frontpage...
I just added now a monthly playlist too, so I don´t have to delete the older
movies after 200 movies in the playlist-....
I just want to get the user to watch the movies directly at
overunity.com in the homepage, so they might also click on the
Google ads between the videos ! ;)
That pays the new server which also costs now more money...
Thanks for your understanding.
Regards, Stefan.
I understand, but I`m not seeing a next page button to see older posts?
Weird.
I am using FF 16.0.1 on Ubuntu Linux, and I definitely DO see:
The smileys and various format buttons on the reply page;
the thread page numbers for the older posts;
and red underlining flags from a spellchecker, that I thought was coming from FF, not this site. I don't see, and never have seen, "hints" as to correct spellings. And it's really funny that "spellchecker" is flagged as being misspelled. And mine prefers the Queen's English spellings over the USAmerican ones, liking "colour" better than "color", "aeroplane" better than "airplane", etc.
As far as I can tell the site looks and works like before, only a bit faster now. But I am sometimes taken to the very bottom of a page when I refresh or post a reply, rather than back to where the text really is.
Now I'm about to update to FF 16.0.2 (not .3 sorry) -- we shall see what happens.
(in "select language" I have "english-utf8")
ETA: OK, now I'm running FF 16.0.2 and everything looks the same, still the same functions as before, I still see the smileys and the format buttons and all the rest of the stuff indluding my craxy spelchecker.
I don't know about Cyrillic or French text though, I can't find any samples to look at right off the bat.
ETA2: Yep, the Cyrillic is screwed up for sure. And if I select plain "english" in the "Select language" window it kicks me back to english-utf8 automagically.
Six embedded videos seems a bit OTT to me, thats over half the home page, yes I can scroll down to read the posts, (which is what I come here for), but, how about a separate page for the embedded videos?
Well, I will change many things for the better when I move to SimplePress.
Please be patient.
I will not do much anymore with the Simplemachines forum software...
Many thanks.
Regards, Stefan.
Strange. I now see correct Cyrillic alphabet font in the front page listing of active threads, but in the reference post linked above I still see a screwed-up font.