Re: Chit chat post rating
I think it's always been like that; the last time I looked at the VBulletin source code, you had to write a hack to disable reputation on particular forums.
Looks like a poorly written hack. Clearly a hackable hack. :ehh:
Re: Chit chat post rating
IMO using that method would be prohibited by the AUP which says "You will not attempt to access any protected sections of the sites or Forums, nor make use of any hacks, cracks, bug exploits, etc. to bypass or modify the features of the forum software at any Internet.com site" and so an abuser of that policy would be subject to banning.
Re: Chit chat post rating
Yeah, that is one of the loop holes particularly in I.T there is always more than one why to accomplish things. As soon so you disable on route someone figures out how to access the information\feature by other.
Re: Chit chat post rating
Well if someone abuses the rep system, which Martin monitors, they would be risking the consequences ;)
Re: Chit chat post rating
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Originally Posted by
baja_yu
I thought rating chit chat posts was disabled, so when I opened my User CP today and saw I was rated on a post in CC I was like whaaa...
For which post ? :)
Re: Chit chat post rating
The one about throwing fat people in front of trains :)
Re: Chit chat post rating
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Originally Posted by
baja_yu
The one about throwing fat people in front of trains :)
This one ? : http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...ighlight=train :confused:
Re: Chit chat post rating
So is this considered an exploit?
Code:
http://www.vbforums.com/search.php?do=process&searchuser=JuggaloBrotha&starteronly=1&forumchoice[]=46
All it does is show a search result for the threads I've made in the CodeBank - Visual Basic .NET section; jmc and a few others have it in their sig's for their codebank threads too.
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No. Why would you think it was?
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That's not an exploit, you can do a search like that from the Search page http://www.vbforums.com/search.php
Just specify the keyword, username (it even has autocomplete/suggestions) and choose a subforum. I use that regularly.
Re: Chit chat post rating
Or you can do a search via Google by startng the search criteria with Site: VBForums.com, leaving a space and then entering whatever you are looking for.
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Actually, site: and vbforums.com have to be together otherwise it won't work.
site:vbforums.com
Re: Chit chat post rating
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Originally Posted by
kfcSmitty
Actually, site: and vbforums.com have to be together otherwise it won't work.
site:vbforums.com
You're right, sorry.
Re: Chit chat post rating
What is scary is that the code to go with the link in the first post is accessible via the browser.