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.