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Post by insomnia October 2nd 2012, 8:40 pm

There have so far been 3 times where a post after some days changes the name of the poster to guest.

This happens to people who have been a member for a long time, and are in no way guests.
The problem is new and started last week, and just now when I looked on forum a post from the 28th got changed to a guest post.

Is there anything we can do so this doesn't happen? Or any idea as to why this happens?
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Post by Sanket October 2nd 2012, 8:43 pm

It simply means the user choose to unsubscribe himself using the forumotion unsubscribe tool. There is no way to avoid it.
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Post by insomnia October 2nd 2012, 8:45 pm

no thats not what I mean. It only happens to one of the posts. When the user writes a new post it looks normal. One of the people it happened to asked me what was going on, and I have no idea what to tell him
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Post by Sanket October 2nd 2012, 9:05 pm

So just one of the user's posts comes up as a guest post?
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Post by insomnia October 2nd 2012, 9:38 pm

ye exactly, its not even the most recent post.
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Post by Sanket October 2nd 2012, 9:39 pm

How can you confirm which user it is?
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Post by insomnia October 2nd 2012, 9:46 pm

only because I read the post before the name got changed
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Post by Sanket October 2nd 2012, 9:47 pm

Your forum URL & that specific post please?
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Post by insomnia October 2nd 2012, 9:54 pm

http://eurobabo.forumieren.eu/t1759p20-cinc-s-responses-thread#32853

you can see it here. the guest post is 3rd last, and is by same poster as the last post
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Post by Sanket October 2nd 2012, 10:04 pm

Please check the IP of the guest post. See if it matches with that of varlan? Also post a screenshot.
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Post by insomnia October 2nd 2012, 10:12 pm

poster name gets changed to guest randomly Ip10

it gives this as result. No idea how it gets the 0.0.0.0 ip
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Post by Sanket October 2nd 2012, 10:14 pm

Click on this "Find All topics where guests has posted in"
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Post by insomnia October 2nd 2012, 10:19 pm

it gives some posts that are mostly old, by different people, some I know still have their account and some posts are too old for me to remember who posted it.

it gives 3 different post names however in the overview:
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saff!r (actual user)
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Post by Sanket October 2nd 2012, 10:21 pm

Oh well, i guess its for the IP of 0.0.0.0

I Don't think its varlan who can make that post.
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Post by insomnia October 2nd 2012, 10:24 pm

but it was him, u can ask him if u dont believe me Smile
we dont even let guests post nor do we allow users to unsubscribe. Its turned off in settings
I am just worried since this have happened 3 times now during one week, that it will keep happening. it makes it confusing to see who posted what in the long run.
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Post by Sanket October 2nd 2012, 10:27 pm

we dont even let guests post nor do we allow users to unsubscribe.
Thats what i said. They can unsubscribe even when you disallow it in the admin panel.
https://www.forumotion.com/en/unscribe/
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Post by insomnia October 2nd 2012, 10:30 pm

but they haven't, as I said at least 3 of the posts I know what account they came from and they still exist. Ofc some of the old posts is hard to say, but these recent ones I know where they came from.
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Post by Sanket October 2nd 2012, 10:32 pm

Okay, can you ask that user to change this post into a guest thingy.
https://www.forumotion.com/en/unscribe/

Then i will believe something is wrong.
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Post by insomnia October 2nd 2012, 10:36 pm

I dont understand what u want?
Like I said, its not like they are doing it intentionally, and I am not lying about it.. I just wanted some help if it was possible. It seems that forum is just changing a random topic into a guest one and it worried me.
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Post by Sanket October 2nd 2012, 10:39 pm

Okay, so you are saying its happening randomly??

Well, we will wait until this happens again. Because, such a thing has never happened before.
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Post by insomnia October 2nd 2012, 10:43 pm

I am saying I dont know what is going on. As the user is still there and confused about it, and me and the other admin didnt do anything to make it happen.

what will it change if it happens again?
I will say x posted and the post turned into a guest post, and we will be where we started now.
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Post by insomnia October 3rd 2012, 7:04 am

thank you! Smile hope it just some temporary problem ^^
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Post by Shadow October 3rd 2012, 10:04 am

Hello,

That doesn't seem to be a glitch... And that's the first time I heard about it.
Have you some other examples ?
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Post by insomnia October 3rd 2012, 10:11 am

http://eurobabo.forumieren.eu/t555p20-want-to-change-name-on-forum#32832 the last post here.

I wrote to the guy who made it and took screen of the response, where he says it was him who had posted it. poster name gets changed to guest randomly Cinc_p10
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Post by Shadow October 3rd 2012, 10:23 am

According to the date of the posts, it can be related with a problem we had with servers.

It shouldn't happen again since the technicians intervened to fix it immediately Smile
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Post by insomnia October 3rd 2012, 10:56 am

alright, that sounds good. So I am hopeing that was the problem, and that more posts won't get changed. Smile
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Post by insomnia October 3rd 2012, 12:26 pm

I dunno, I guess only time will tell.
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Post by Shadow October 3rd 2012, 12:30 pm

This is confirmed by the tehnicians Smile
The problem with the posts was due to a maintenance on a server.
You shouldn't have this problem again now that the maintenance is over.
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