Guests and posting

Re: Guests and posting

Lammer - 31.08.2008, 07:33

Mike, I am not sure what you mean... Using this as an example, can you indicate where you saw that a guest was posting a message?

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Re: Guests and posting

johnny59 - 31.08.2008, 11:21

Zounds. I never realized in two years that the "Who is online" phrase is an active link to a hidden feature. I thought this list was an exclusive feature of the admin section. LOL.

Guests can not post messages. You can easily check this. Try to post something somewhere without logging in, it won't work.

But nevertheless there is a possible explanation for what you saw, Mike.

The online status of members who have chosen the "hidden" option in their profile can not be monitored by fellow members. Since their name does not appear on the online list, it might well be that their posting attempts are listed as "guest posts" in this particular list.

Administrators and moderators with admin status always can see who's logged in, they are able to demask all shields. To prove my theory it would be necessary to wait for a hidden member posting and check the given information in each list. Of course this only can be done by someone with access to admin.

The next time I see a hidden member posting I will try to crossmatch it with the "Who's online"list.

Concerning guest posts, also see this thread in the FAQ section:
http://www.iphpbb.com/board/ftopic-30652567nx61610-1635.html

Re: Guests and posting

johnny59 - 31.08.2008, 20:57

Angeleyes wrote: ...Big Brother is watching us... :shock:

Not.

We are not able to read other people's PMs. Not that we ever were willing to do this, but anyway. It's technically impossible without a malicious attempt of hacking the forum database.

:D

Re: Guests and posting

Toni - 01.09.2008, 19:29

johnny59 wrote: Zounds. I never realized in two years that the "Who is online" phrase is an active link to a hidden feature.

Neither I did. Thank you Mike for the discovery. :D

Re: Guests and posting

Emmanuelle - 01.09.2008, 23:50

johnny59 wrote: Zounds. I never realized in two years that the "Who is online" phrase is an active link to a hidden feature. I thought this list was an exclusive feature of the admin section. LOL.
:eyebrows: Some people already knew that (thanks Mike for giving me the tip a while back ;-) ). It's a really amusing feature and I'm guilty of using it. A lot. It's great fun to see who gets a lot of PMs. :P

Re: Guests and posting

Emmanuelle - 02.09.2008, 06:45

ABBAnator wrote: Do you click on everything until you get a reaction? :P :lol:


Bruce :D

Don't you ? ;) Life's more fun when you are curious.