broken forum and bad behavior

[rubthebuddha]

not sure what happened yesterday, but apparently a day or so's worth of postings are missing. my guess is that gene and johnny were all guinessed up and one of them spilled a pint on the server before it had a chance to back itself up for the day.

regardless, most of yesterday's posts won't be missed, but we did have some gems:

1. mk linked us to a pikey fight.
2. i got to make fun of bill phillips. twice.

i think that's about it. the majority of the rest was crap, for one specific reason -- insults. i've warned you hosers time and again:

you can argue all you want, you can discuss to your heart's content, but do NOT insult another forum member. if you feel the need to do so, think about who the bigger dolt is -- the one who antagonizes another person on the web, or the one who lets him or herself be antagonized by someone they don't know, much less respect.

[Oso]

well, I hope someone beats them soundly for the waste of a good pint.

and the old smilies are back !

I didn't trust those new guys.

[yenhoi]

Does this mean whipping hand is un-banned?

Isent calling the forum hosers and dolts kinda like insulting forum members?

[David Jamieson]

don't insult me with your hoser and dolt comments you dolt hoser!

[GeneChing]

Yesterday, we were informed by vBulletin that all vBulletin forums were under attack from a malicious hacker. There is a known flaw in the older versions, so we were advised to upload a newer version or a patch to prevent losing our data. The process took www.KungFuMagazine.com offline for a period last night, and there's still some problems that we have yet to resolve. Our IT man Jake, worked late into the evening here, then took an admin computer home last night to resolve the problem. We believe it's resolved now, but there are still some things that we are ironing out, so we might experience a little bugginess. Sorry for the inconvience - such is the nature of the net.

And shame on you selfish members who thought a few hour blip on the forum was all about YOU.

[rubthebuddha]

thanks for the update, gene, but i still think guiness had something to do with it.

Isent calling the forum hosers and dolts kinda like insulting forum members?

well, i meant "hosers" in the brotherly way that bob and doug always used. and dolts ... hm ... what excuse do i have for dolts ... well, i'll just have to fall back on my title. just cause i moderate other people's behavior doesn't mean i myself am moderate.

[David Jamieson]

hey that's my line!

















































hoser!

[GeneChing]

Oh man, I wish it was about the Guinness. I wish. It was really just a ****ty Monday here at the office.

[rubthebuddha]

if that's the case, then tuesday BETTER be all about the guiness.

[GeneChing]

...he worked until 3 AM fixing the forum et. al., last night. And he's still working on it. He says now that we came within moments of LOSING THE ENTIRE FORUM. **** malicious hacker.

If anyone deserves a Guinness, and our heartfelt thanks, it's our man Jake!

[Fu-Pow]

Ok RTB...I'll cut out the insults....however....it better be enforced uniformly. It seems that you are getting on my case when there has been plenty of this kind of stuff going around the forum for a long time.

In other words. Any insults I see I'm gonna flag. But I'd better see some intervention on your part or I'm gonna assume you are picking and choosing your targets.

[Starchaser107]

figured that this was bigger than it seemed.


malicious web attacks... (sigh).
hope today is a better day.

[GeneChing]

Well, we're still picking up the pieces. We had 1500+ error messages in our email, plus several dozen complaints/comments about the lost threads and such. So no Guinness yet - but we're about to celebrate the B-day of a Tiger Claw office manager, so at least there will be a little cake.

[red5angel]

i've warned you hosers time and again:

That's it!!!! You meet me at Taichi Legacy and I'll have you whipped in 7 minutes 32 seconds flat with hundreds of wtinesses. I'll even call in CNN to film it so we have a record of me, whippin yo' butt, without using grappling and while dancing!!!!

[Banjos_dad]

"Morpheus.
"I need cyber defense capability.


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There. Now next time it happens, your server will rip a powerpole out of the ground & whoop @ss on whoever tries to hack.