Housekeeping Notes for Members
- We had a bizarre problem this morning. If you saw an error message, it was because the number of files in the system had somehow or other increased to 150% of capacity in 24 hours. I suspect that this was the result of a hacking attempt, although I have no idea why anyone would bother to hack Bindlesnitch. Seems like a waste of time to me.
- Someone started an article entitled “Trump and my Perilous Garrulous Malice Callous.” I read it. It’s a good article…but it doesn’t have an author’s name on it. It also didn’t have tags, text excerpt or featured image….but I really can’t figure out how someone could post a draft without a name appearing on the article. That should be impossible. If this is your article, would y0u please send me any information you might have about how you posted an article without having a name attached to it….in the comments below…and please finish and publish the article.
- I am going to be deleting all of the older articles in draft, especially those that belong to people who are no longer with us, but I have a question about the whole sports department, which was Robert’s bailiwick. I have very little interest in sports articles, especially older articles. Does anyone have any feelings one way or the other? It costs money to keep all of the articles if it bumps us up to the next package level and no I don’t know how much, yet.
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01/31/2021 @ 3:19 pm
Re sports: there’s too much in this society already. No need for more.
I want to read something titled “Trump and my Perilous Garrulous Malice Callous.”
01/31/2021 @ 4:00 pm
“Trump and my Perilous Garrulous Malice Callous” is mine. I posted it quite a long time ago. I’m sure I have a copy of it in my file. I do not know why it has no name attached. It is a bit disturbing that I might have been the target of the hacker.
01/31/2021 @ 5:39 pm
I may have read it back then. I heard the title and thought it sounded like you.
02/01/2021 @ 8:49 am
The draft carries a date of 1/31/2021. We did have a glitch over the weekend that kicked out a couple of error messages and that may have been an attempt at hacking the site because it increased the number of files in the system by 50%. I don’t know how that could happen any other way but it appears that the anti-hacking programs did their jobs and the attempt was diverted. The draft I have doesn’t have all four of the required elements. I will look into resurrecting the file.
02/01/2021 @ 10:32 am
1/31/2021 (yesterday) is the date of this post. I wrote that title and post quite a long time ago. I do not recall the date.
01/31/2021 @ 6:51 pm
I can’t find it in my personal draft file. I also can’t find drafts on the BS site. The site has never worked quite the same since RP blocked me out of it.
02/01/2021 @ 8:44 am
Blocking any individual contributor would have no effect on the site as a whole, nor would it have any effect on the site as perceived by that contributor after the block was lifted. If you could specify what you think is different in terms of how the site operates, I could look at that.
02/01/2021 @ 10:41 am
No, I can’t. It is very glitchy. It has different glitches.
One thing that used to happen is that trying to create a post would often double post. For example, if I tried to post 700 words, it would post 1400…etc. The menu on the right side of the screen jumped around unpredictably. All sorts of things. Glitchy is the best I can say about it. Often something would just happen, and I’d wonder, what just happened. Some thing I found a way around, and others I didn’t. One work around used to be shrinking the screen to half size after I posted because, at first, the words would not appear after I posted them. When I reduced the screen the words appeared, and when I expanded it, they remained. It was lots of stuff like that.
Also, I am not stating that getting screwed with by RP was the cause. I am merely saying that I have numerous posts removed, and then was blocked from access. Who knows what he was capable of while posts were removed, and while I was blocked. How long was I blocked out, 5 or 6 days? I don’t think we know all that he did. Why would he say so? I also do not particularly care about all of that stuff now…assuming he did not do more damage than I am aware of.
02/01/2021 @ 1:01 pm
The one about the duplication of text has been going around for awhile now, in a lot of places. It has happened to me several times on Facebook. Do you ever do block cut and paste operations, such as moving a paragraph from one place to another? I do that now and then and sometimes, either due to operator error or an actual glitch, the text I copied and pasted shows up twice,
More commonly, I have seen paragraphs duplicated one after the other on Facebook as well as here and since those are two places I spend the most time on this may be happening in other places I don’t know about. That started happening around three months ago.
The blocks on the right side of the new post page jumping around is a problem with the plugin that generates that form. It isn’t actually a problem. It’s a feature, except that sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t, and that may be a function of the privilege levels bestowed on different users. The feature, if it can be called a feature, is that you have the ability to rearrange the placement of the blocks in the new post form by simply picking them up and moving them. Unfortunately, the glitchy part is that if anyone changes the form, everyone else’s version of the form also changes.
This actually makes sense because the form is generic to the site and not specific to the user. It can also be a pain in the ass.
Just to test this out, I have just moved the featured image box to the top of the column. If you start a new post, you should see that the featured image box has moved. (Let me know if it hasn’t. I will switch it back as soon as I hear from you one way or the other.)
Since I don’t make a habit of moving the blocks around on purpose. this can also be happening by accident. On several occasions, I have moved boxes around without intending to and sometimes, when I am rushed, I don’t even notice it until later.
Another issue is that whenever I want to edit any of the pages, I have to turn the checklist OFF in order to make the changes. While the checklist is off, it won’t appear on any new post forms. This is a recent problem and stems from a conflict between two plugins that didn’t exist when I originally implemented those plugins. Now, I am stuck with the problem because these are the only two plugins I can use to do those things.
I honestly do not believe that RP did anything malicious to the code itself, nor do I believe that he messed with your content. Now that you have jogged my memory, it might very well have been my reaction to his blocking you without even discussing it with me first that led to his decision to take his leave. I didn’t even know that this had happened until Kosh brought it to my attention. I was very angry that he didn’t follow the process we had agreed upon for suspensions and now that I am thinking about it I suspect that it was my failure to support his decision that led to his departure.
There was a situation a couple of weeks after RP pulled up stakes where I had to ask him how to regain the ability to edit pages and he promptly reminded me that I had to disable the checklist, so I don’t really think he did anything to the site itself and I doubt whether he cared enough to go back over your articles and mess with them but that was possible until I shut off his editorial privileges.
He can read the site and comment if he wants to but I haven’t seen him here and I don’t expect to.
By the way, it’s a good idea to refer to him only as RP because I believe he has software that alerts him whenever his name appears anywhere. I don’t want to attract his attention back to the site. I don’t expect to hear from him unless the site starts to gain some traction at which point he might come looking for $$ but we all know that isn’t likely to happen.