(05-01-2016, 06:52 PM)admin Wrote: [ -> ] (05-01-2016, 05:27 PM)FSSL Wrote: [ -> ]Tomato cannot answer for himself? He said the "software" and "admins." That is not true.
Since you are so accusing...
I didn't know that the PMs were in plain text in the database, and you and Tomato did. What are you both hiding? Does Tomato still have the copy of the forum? Apparently. You had my password.
So, when it comes down to maliciousness, your accusations are unfounded and hypocritical.
I've had to know. I don't access such information unless required. In 20 years of administration there have been times I've had to access the information. You had no reason to access the information. Nothing hypocritical about it. I have explained myself. I haven't made unfounded accusations. No. I don't have a copy of the database. Never keep one.
I knew exactly what Rogue was saying. You did too. You run websites for dozens of businesses. I don't know how you expect me to believe you didn't know this.
I do have an old copy of the the database. As I said, I backed it up in case I damaged the forum while trying to change how it shows pictures, and also because FSSL asked me to install updated modules, which is even more risky. I may have erased the backup -- I don't recall. I could check, but if it exists, it's on a disk in a box. I swapped out my drives for bigger/faster ones. But I have an SATA to USB adapter so I could easily view the contents of the old drives and see if it's still there.
Even if it still exists I WILL NOT view the old private messages to prove a point. They are private, and I respect privacy. And unlike FSSL, I am not a liar. I proved my point just as easily with my old Wordpress site.
(05-01-2016, 06:59 PM)admin Wrote: [ -> ]Mysqladmin is the shell interface. You can do this from the shell as well.
Yes, I'm aware of that. I just got the two mixed up. I was thinking of phpMyAdmin but said mysqladmin.
phpMyAdmin is about the easiest interface there is for mySQL. Not only can you browse through all the PMs, you could easily look at only those PMs to a certain person, or from a certain person, or both, and even specify the date range. It takes only seconds to do that. It's so easy, even a moron like FSSL or Ransom could do it.
So... FSSL... how does it feel to be called on your bluff, and completely owned as a result?
Tomato still believes the admins have access to the database. Ransom doesn't.
I administrate the forum completely from the console.
Stop your troll.
On second thought, let her continue. It is comical how she is allowed to roll over people, here.
What you are all so dense to realize is that your public statements about starting this forum and your current roster of posters have said too much. You think I read your private messages because I knew too many details. The fact is, you talk too much and are too dense to realize that your words gave you away.
(05-01-2016, 07:39 PM)FSSL Wrote: [ -> ]Tomato still believes the admins have access to the database. Ransom doesn't.
You have access to the database, which you implicitly denied. You gave me the username/password for site maintenance, which gave me access to the database, so I could do some work for you (which, by the way, I did for free, in case you forgot).
You could easily give the username/password to Ransom.
(05-01-2016, 07:39 PM)FSSL Wrote: [ -> ]I administrate the forum completely from the console.
So you say. And you've demonstrated time and again that you're a liar.
You denied that it was possible for the site admin to read the PMs. You challenged me to prove that it was possible to read the PMs. I showed you not only how it's possible, but how easy it is.
The only defense you have left is to say "Yeah, but I don't do that."
I'll leave it up to the readers of this forum to decide whether or not to believe you after all your posturing and lying about how it's not possible.
It was a colossal mistake to claim you can't read PMs, and then challenge me to prove you can. You can never recover your credibility now. You're finished as a credible forum admin.
You would have had some credibility left if your FIRST response was, "Yes, as site admin, I have the ability to read PMs, and it's actually easy to do, but I would never do that." The reason nobody should believe you now is because, instead, you answered with lies and obfuscation.
With you guys, reality begins with speculations, mixed with horrible English skills, frustration when challenged, developing more speculations which are unprovable, creating more frustration that ended up with a few frustrated accusers of the brethren who started a new forum... and now you are left with a roster of posters with some problematic relationships, historically
So, when you wake up and realize the mess you created, you will be allowed back ONLY when you make full apology for accusing us of...
Reading PMs
DOS attack
Speculations have become your own worst enemy
(05-01-2016, 08:24 PM)FSSL Wrote: [ -> ]you will be allowed back
I'm laughing at the fact that you actually think we want to come back. I can only speak for myself, obviously, but I wouldn't come back even if YOU apologized and begged.
(05-01-2016, 07:39 PM)FSSL Wrote: [ -> ]Tomato still believes the admins have access to the database. Ransom doesn't.
I administrate the forum completely from the console.
Stop your troll. On second thought, let her continue. It is comical how she is allowed to roll over people, here.
What you are all so dense to realize is that your public statements about starting this forum and your current roster of posters have said too much. You think I read your private messages because I knew too many details. The fact is, you talk too much and are too dense to realize that your words gave you away.
You're displaying such Christian charity and grace. I have let you say anything you want to say. I wouldn't worry about what people think of me and the posters here. Its rather obvious you're an overbearing egomaniac. Add that to my list of accusations. You've got a rather long list going yourself. Your condescention toward those you disagree with is deafening. Tell Ransom he can join and share in your tirade. It'll look so good in both of you....
(05-01-2016, 08:25 PM)The Rogue Tomato Wrote: [ -> ] (05-01-2016, 08:24 PM)FSSL Wrote: [ -> ]you will be allowed back
I'm laughing at the fact that you actually think we want to come back. I can only speak for myself, obviously, but I wouldn't come back even if YOU apologized and begged.
He doesnt. I suspect he'd just ban us again for whatever reason enters his mind at the time.
If you can regain a level of understanding that your wild speculations are not grounds for making accusations and soliciting members from my forum... then you are free to come back.
The rules you wrote there and here do give me the option to ban members without reason. I never banned you for a disagreement or bad treatment. I banned you for an unethical move to undercut my forum to gain members for this replicated forum.
You are free to establish this forum. You are not free to try to undermine in the process.
(05-02-2016, 01:24 AM)FSSL Wrote: [ -> ]If you can regain a level of understanding that your wild speculations are not grounds for making accusations and soliciting members from my forum... then you are free to come back.
The rules you wrote there and here do give me the option to ban members without reason. I never banned you for a disagreement or bad treatment. I banned you for an unethical move to undercut my forum to gain members for this replicated forum.
You are free to establish this forum. You are not free to try to undermine in the process.
Actually, we're perfectly free to invite anyone to join in this forum, including all the members of your forum.
As forum admin, you have the right and ability to keep us off your forum to prevent us from doing it there. But you have no right to stop any other means by which we invite members.
You also have the right to come here and make demands of what we must do to crawl back into your good graces in order to return to your crap forum. And we have the right to laugh hysterically in response. Which, incidentally, is what I'm doing right now.
By the way, your crap forum is a replicated forum, too, you know. That's how it started. So if it bothers you that this is a "replicated" forum, that's a bit of the clover calling the grass green. The only difference is that we were free to invite others to fff.org back on the ORIGINAL forum, of which yours is a copy.
"Actually, we're perfectly free to invite anyone to join in this forum, including all the members of your forum."
Sure. Hopefully neither of you will be using their emails you could scrape from your previous access to the database.
Aleshanee was right. I should never have trusted you to have that level of access.