Avatar Issue: * SkepticOverlord is working on it * UPDATE

reply to post by Kryties


"Release the flying monkeys!"

* Phoenix cackles *

"What do you mean we don't have any? What about sharks with frickin' lazor beams? No? Budget cuts? What do you mean budget cuts?"

* Phoenix mumbles *

"Well what do we have?"



- Phoenix

Well gee, that was easy!
Thank you. I don't even know where my avatar is located.
Glad you found it for me!

reply to post by antar


Working now, thanks, btw my temp. avie is in reaction to the days events...

Originally posted by ljtg123

My avatar and birthday but I didn't "hack" the site....

Nice to meet you all...

Well then. Welcome to ATS Ijtg123. Happy Birthday in a couple weeks.

That was unpleasent.

-ET

Thank you for fixing.

Hopefully we are back to normal!!

reply to post by ugie1028


My guess is that he/she was changing something in their profile and somehow when they submitted the changes it conflicted with some other code and made the change to all profiles instead. That's just a wild guess though.

reply to post by ljtg123


That is awesome, did you just change your information today, resulting in this incident?


--airspoon

I'm wielding Occam's Razor on this one.

Very funny prank

And we are back on the air! I knew it wasn't worth the trouble to change my avatar. Nice work with the smooth fix.

reply to post by Kryties


thats possible. error happened at the same time the changes were made could explain it.

Also it could of been a hack, and that hack chose a random profile to copy.

Either or, its good to see the problem is fixed, but if its the hack then i hope the lynch mob starts marching.

reply to post by ljtg123


You are famous now, wow noone will ever be able to look at your avie without remembering... i knew it would all work out for the best eventually just glad it was not something much worse, goes to show we still have a safe forum to enjoy...

What did you think when you came on and all the avies were you??? tell all ok, I would have FREAKED!!!

Hey, several of my flags and stars just dissapeared. I have less now than I did 10 minutes ago. I think around 5 flags and 30 - 40 stars are missing.

--airspoon

reply to post by airspoon


the DB was backed up. SO said that there would be some issues with post counts, flags, and stars.

Originally posted by airspoon
reply to post by ljtg123

 

That is awesome, did you just change your information today, resulting in this incident?


--airspoon

That's what I was thinking, poor guy changes his avi and somehow manages to bring all this upon us.
Could be worse, I only changed mine this morning.

Any how, happy b'day for a couple of weeks ljtg123

reply to post by airspoon

We recovered from a very-recent backup of the member information portion of the database, and all appears to be back to normal.

Which would mean some Stars and Flags would be missing.

- Phoenix

reply to post by ladyinwaiting


I would save that avie in case something ever happenens, it is so beautiful it would be a shame to loose it...

Originally posted by Kryties

My guess is that he/she was changing something in their profile and somehow when they submitted the changes it conflicted with some other code and made the change to all profiles instead. That's just a wild guess though.

Doesn't really make sense to me. How could one member have the access to modify the entire member table like that?

And if something was wonky in the code, shouldn't it have been doing it every time *any* member made a change to their profile?

This means I'm off the hook.....Thanks SO.

I would say somebody added a" * "wildcard to there user name when updating there avatar causing all avatars to change.

Since the issue is solved, and speculation serves no point, the thread is now closed.

Thanks for your patience on this, and all's well that ends well.