10 replies to this topic

[apemanzilla]

They've been up and down a lot more than usual, and now posts require approval. Anyone know what's going on?

Edited by dan200, 14 May 2016 - 11:45 PM.

[apemanzilla]

Also the buttons seem to be flying away

[dan200]

They have been under persistent DDOS attacks for several days now.

[apemanzilla]

That doesn't explain the posts needing approval, or the buttons though

[Saldor010]

The posts needing approval is probably to prevent bot-spam attacks if I had to guess.

[Lupus590]

I was about to ask what you meant by the by the buttons flying away but then found out when I was about to click the quote button.

Maybe the forum software has been hacked?

[Luca_S]

These flying buttons are actually pretty fun. "Quote me if you can"

But more seriously: What happened? Did these Anonymous guys got angry and hacked the forums, enabling a moderator approval for everyone and adding flying quote buttons?

[MKlegoman357]

What..?

[MKlegoman357]

Also, is posting a problem that it needs approval? I wonder what the actual moderators think about this, there will be a lot more work for them and the forums will slow down, because of slower reply rates.

And I cannot edit my post yet (which should be above this one) because it's not approved yet, which is a bummer.

[Creator]

I just PMed Lyqyd about this. Apparently it's not only me then. I think these measures are justified, given the situation.

[dan200]

Explanation of the outage: http://www.computerc...5/06/were-back/
Explanation of the disappearing explanations of the outage: http://www.computerc...e-all-my-posts/