The Energon Pub

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Sat Mar 28, 2026 5:56 pm

Seems to be some "Anonymous bumping" happening in this sub-forum.

News Credits: 34 · by **Glyph** » Sun Mar 29, 2026 6:29 am

Burn wrote:Seems to be some "Anonymous bumping" happening in this sub-forum.

Have cleaned up a bunch of spam posts from various bots in that forum. I think the users may already have been removed as I can't find them in the memberlist? (Which has several bugs of its own to complicate that - there's another that I've disapproved a couple of posts from but also can't find)
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There seems to be a (separate?) issue with threads being "bumped by Anonymous" where the last post in the thread is a legit post from a real user, but the content is years old despite the post having a current date. It looks like the previous last post has been wrongly updated with a new date, but the sidebar is failing to link the username to their profile because there's some kind of "anon" user (presumably a missing ID) that it's treating as the author.
Example threads here: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4

In each case the last post is genuine but NOT recent and has been messed with by this "bump" function, which I'm not familiar with - I don't see any control to do it, and the idea doesn't make sense as a separate thing anyway since you bump a thread by replying to it.

Website · by **Silver Wind** » Mon Mar 30, 2026 10:02 pm

Same sub-forum from yesterday has been hit with a fresh mini-wave of spam posts.

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Sat Apr 04, 2026 4:02 pm

Silver Wind wrote:Same sub-forum from yesterday has been hit with a fresh mini-wave of spam posts.

I don't get why they're targetting that one specific sub-forum, how they're doing it as it's supposed to be restricted to only certain members, and how they're doing it without even being logged in.

News Credits: 3639 · by **Seibertron** » Wed Apr 08, 2026 1:18 pm

1984forever wrote:I can’t view saved drafts

Are you still having this issue? If yes, can you provide me with the URL of the draft you are having trouble accessing? I just need to get the ID of the draft which will be in the URL. Thanks.

News Credits: 3639 · by **Seibertron** » Wed Apr 08, 2026 1:20 pm

Burn wrote:
Silver Wind wrote:Same sub-forum from yesterday has been hit with a fresh mini-wave of spam posts.

I don't get why they're targetting that one specific sub-forum, how they're doing it as it's supposed to be restricted to only certain members, and how they're doing it without even being logged in.

I'm assuming it's a glitch in the system from other changes I made last month and the rewriting/fixing of code due to switching from an outdated version of php to a more recent version that phpBB was not written to work with. I just saw these posts from you guys and will have to look into this over the next few days. I'm sorry if this is causing you guys an inconvenience. I'm sure it is annoying. Anonymous bumping is weird.