Apolyton hacked!!

Maniac · August 11, 2003, 15:44

Well at least it could be.

In any case, I noticed something very weird this noon in this thread. I suggest you check out that thread!!! The weird thing I noticed this noon cannot be seen anymore, but the comics are great. (Shameless ACDG advertizing

)

Anyway, to get to the point, I saw this:

There are quite a few odd things about the posts:

1> If we can believe the post date, they were made before Kody's post, but they appeared later.
2> The local time of the posters is three minutes before the real time: 4:15 and 2:15 against 13:18 and 21:18.
3> When I checked out the profiles of these two posters, it were those of Archaic and Comrade Tassadar.
4> The "Luke Skywalker" nick doesn't appear on the members list. "Darth Vader" does, but that's a guy who only has one post and registered a few years back. I doubt he's got something to do with it.
5> Now these two posts have disappeared. AFAIK the only ones who can delete posts are moderators. So (unless Ming for example would have meddled with Tassadar's profile in a drunken mood

) it's possible someone has hacked Poly.

Nikolai · August 11, 2003, 15:48

Well, that is weird!

If you don't have Photoshop, that is?

Panag · August 11, 2003, 15:54

hi ,

well he is not the only one to have seen it , ......

but it might have been wiser to contact the mods or owners instead of making a thread out of it , .....

have a nice day

Maniac · August 11, 2003, 15:57

Nikolai:

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If you don't have Photoshop, that is?

Fortunately GeneralTacticus has seen it as well, so he can testify for me in case someone would want to send to the madhouse for hallucinating.

panag:

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but it might have been wiser to contact the mods or owners instead of making a thread out of it , .....

Oh.

Well I figured that posting it in Community would be the best way of letting the mods know, as in my experience most of my PMs to the mods and owners are answered very late or not, due to the mods' extreme busy-ness I suppose.

Nikolai · August 11, 2003, 16:32

I don't agree with panag. I agree with Maniac's arguments.

Gramphos · August 11, 2003, 16:37

Really strange...

Gramphos · August 11, 2003, 16:48

Doing some reasearch Comrade Tassadar matches the profile of the Luke Skywalker (except for the civgroups which can easaly be rejoined)

Maniac · August 11, 2003, 16:53

And that of Dart Vader Archaic's. However I doubt Archaic has anything to do with it. He can get... rather heated in debates, but I doubt he's the person to do something silly like this.

Gramphos · August 11, 2003, 17:07

Well, you should have checked the profiles once you had the chance. It's definately the profilestats of Archaic and Comrade Tassadar. You maybe should ask them about what they did in the said time.

Jamski · August 11, 2003, 17:09

But they'd both need a mod to change their names, and then to change them back again. I'd say either 'poly's been hacked, or a mod is having a joke.

-Jam

FrustratedPoet · August 11, 2003, 17:11

This is indeed very weird.

Maniac · August 11, 2003, 17:15

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Well, you should have checked the profiles once you had the chance.

How do you mean?

I did check the profiles. It's point 3> of the odd things listed below the screenie. I also checked the profile numbers (such as 3088 for me) this noon. They matched.

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You maybe should ask them about what they did in the said time.

I have sent them a PM asking to check out this thread. We'll see if they can shed some light.

Gramphos · August 11, 2003, 17:19

I suspect Kody for being behind this. I just have to verify it first...

Ming · August 11, 2003, 17:50

Thanks for the info Gramphos