Would someone mind telling me what's going on here?

Has he tried another screwy thing, this time with his user name?

Yes, he's been having fun looking for little exploits in how the BBS handles postings, user names and attachments. It's the sort of thing he got banned for last time. Some people never learn.

For the record, the original source for the image he was trying to display is this. Don't know if the image itself has any significance. Perhaps he'd like to enlighten us.

Hehe, just change his name to pastel pink and lock it there.
Or just ban him

If this keeps up, we're going to be able to play Where's Wally with the BBS..... "Spot Yz33d". What's the next user name going to be?

Has he tried another screwy thing, this time with his user name?

Looks that way. Cool!

What was that about him trying to display an image? I don't see one.

Peter

bummer, all fixed now.

no more fun.

Ok... for the hacker impaired, someone explain this thread....

Ok... for the hacker impaired, someone explain this thread....

A character called Yz33d found a bug in the BBS software that allowed arbitrary HTML to be inserted into username fields when replying to posts. So he turned his name green in one reply, using the HTML "font color" tag. Unfortunately he also unwittingly found a second bug in the BBS software, whereby in the "Re:revimwest" bit the username gets truncated. Even more unfortunately, his inserted HTML got truncated leaving a dangling open quote, causing the page formatting on that thread to look like a bit of a train wreck until (I presume) the moderators fixed it by hand.

Peter

/me wonders if changing my names color to blue would get me access to the player source code...

Thanks... the reason that For Dummies Books are so popular thanks you.

I changed mine to blue a while back, it didn't get me anything beyond the color

What the hell is that document? I wonder if he's associated with the address listed on that form...

heh, sorry. I didn't mean to make everything else green, too. I just....I... I just wanted a purty color!

Haven't we stated extremely clearly before that you should try your web programming abilities in an environment that it is acceptable in? Make your own web page. Experiment more with it. STOP DOING THIS TO THIS MESSAGE BOARD. If you work at the address listed on that form, I think I'll write this on a 2x4, fly to Texas, and beat you over the head with it. Maybe then it will sink in.

Sorry for getting angry, everyone

You couldn't even get the sig right you dope. And tfabris was an "enthusiast" back when you were still sucking on your mommy's teet. Oh wait, you're still doing that. Nevermind.

Please don't make me cry.

Ynot, please try not to feed the trolls.

Ah, screw you too.

I didn't mean it that way, sorry Ynot.

I am, of course, sympathetic to your sentiments. I was just trying to make the point that when you directly insult someone like that, they just do more sh*t to try to piss you off. And that's the last thing we want. Reference.

If we want this problem to be solved, we must do it with cold professionalism, not angry insults.

I wasn't serious... I was just trolling to see if you'd bite. And you did. Thanks!

Touche'.

Mummy and Daddy are fighting again

please try not to feed the trolls.

That's it -- we need a new user category for very special people. You gave out "Whiner" to... ummm, who was that? How about "Troll" for our misogynistic friend here?

tanstaafl.

How about "Troll" for our misogynistic friend here?

Yes, I think that would be a very fitting title for ynot_.

a bug in the BBS software

...which is fixed in newer versions, according to the changelogs you can get to from the UBB link at the bottom of BBS pages. (Checking for a few magic characters is probably a good-enough workaround, of course: people could still muck with the usernames but not in such an accidentally destructive way.)

Peter

Yeah, we've bought the upgrade license for the next year (admins chipped in), and I'm sure Tom will migrate us when he gets the time.

i guess this would be the appropriate place to report message board bugs.

i decided to edit a post that had [image] tags. when edited, it carried over html instead. <img "blah blah blah">

and I'm sure Tom will migrate us when he gets the time.

Actually, I'm waiting on the 6.2 release, as it's pretty much been decided we all didn't like 6.0 or 6.1 for the rating feature. 6.2 adds the ability to turn it off without hacking a ton of template files.