TCP Admins. Beware!

[vladictivo]

Hey gang, FYI my account was hacked or intentionally deleted by someone with admin. privileges (which I hardly doubt). Is there a way to recover my old posts? Also, any chance to improve the security of the site (pay pal donations or something)?

Cheers

PS. Going to rebuild the custom NES mini boxes thread ASAP =P

[UncleBob]

What was your old account name?

[vladictivo]

the very same, vladictivo.

[mariocaseman]

Watch out for these spam posts too.  I had a PM from a bot this morning!

[sheep2001]

I have deleted probably 20+ spam account over the last 48 hours as we've been getting hit pretty bad.  They are all accounts with only 1 or 2 posts.  There is, I guess a slim possibility that I was trigger happy last night and you got culled by accident.  I truly don't think it was me, but if it was I apologise.

[Arseen]

Yeah I have noticed.
They hit us hard when the ban triggers are resetted, it takes time to put them back.
AND NO WIDE BANS I KNOW  

That why still vote for manual only activation.

Is there a way to recover my old posts?

Judging from my postcount dropping over 100 posts and I talked with you a lot in you topics, I think not only your account, but your topics and posts were also permanently deleted.

And I know that I did not delete them.

Also, any chance to improve the security of the site (pay pal donations or something)?

Like I said, and have said many times before, I vote for manual activation of accounts. Would decrease our work load and clean accounts and forums.

[ShoothimNow]

you mean like "please click the link provided in your email from the email we just sent you" -- manual activation?

[vladictivo]

Or something like "please insert the numbers and letters from the automatically generated picture to prove you're human and not a bot". A lot of sites use that mechanism, it could work here as well

[Arseen]

Or something like "please insert the numbers and letters from the automatically generated picture to prove you're human and not a bot". A lot of sites use that mechanism, it could work here as well

We have that, not working well enough.

you mean like "please click the link provided in your email from the email we just sent you" -- manual activation?

No, I mean none of the accounts could be activated by new user alone.
Instead the new accounts go to a waiting list.
Few times a day Admins go thru the list of not yet activated accounts.
If account is OK, it would get activated, if not it would be ignored by Admins.
When the account has been on the list for two days, it will be deemed not worthy and deleted.

That would mean that it takes only one admin to save the account, but if none of the Admins trust the account it would get deleted.

[sheep2001]

have been back through my internet history, and am 99% sure it was not me.    I have however already deleted about 10 spammer accounts this morning.