jimdahl

It only takes $3 to buy a bag of Cheetos. Why risk a felony when a misdemeanor will do.

The crazy thing is that I put in place new tests that pretty much confirm it's actual humans bothering to do the initial registration (though probably not the mass postings). That they still find it worth it, given how ridiculously low the return on that spam must be, proves how cheap labor is.

I've had new registrations opened back up for quite a few weeks now, so we're not under constant attack. So, I'm going to leave things open for a while and see how it goes.

And some non-UND info, looking at #10 Yale through #23 Minnesota-Duluth, all fighting for spots on the bubble. http://collegehockeyranked.com/2016/02/18/with-two-weeks-until-conference-tournaments-begin-teams-on-the-bubble-need-to-get-hot/

Well, a pair of losses didn't wrap anything up for UND. Looks like we still need some wins to lock up a bid. A few top teams are starting to look like locks for NCAA tournament

Behold Virginia: https://www.dmv.virginia.gov/vehicles/#splates/category.asp?category=C

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Nah, you're thinking of GPL, we've never restricted new registrations. But don't worry, we're on this one.

Don't forget to use the "report" feature to bring problems to the mods' attention more quickly!

So many years I've had to start a thread about the PWR in January to let people know it's still possible for UND to climb out of its hole and get an at-large bid. How different this year is! What prompted me to finally start one is that this weekend brings the first real chance of Quinnipiac falling out of #1, and UND controls whether it is #3 UND or #2 SCSU that overtakes QU if the Bobcats stumble. Here's a more detailed post I wrote: http://collegehockeyranked.com/2016/02/12/north-dakota-eyeing-taking-1-from-quinnipiac-but-dont-count-out-st-cloud/

Yeah, just reply here with the name you want or PM me.

They seem to still know this isn't perfect on mobile devices: https://community.invisionpower.com/4bugtrack/active-reports/4152-quote-removal-on-mobiletablet-not-working-r9610/ Meanwhile, you can work around it by hitting the "source" button in the upper left to switch away from WYSIWYG mode, delete all the HTML for the quote, then click "source" again to switch back to WYSIWYG mode.

Fixed.

It's a little confusing, but the behavior differs based on what screen you're on: If you're on the front forum screen (that lists hockey, football, etc...), then clicking on the title of a thread will take you to the last read post in the thread. If you're in one of the forums, so you see a list of threads, you instead have to click the little dot or star to the left of the thread (but if there are no new posts in that thread, the star or dot won't appear). If you think it might not actually be remembering what you've read, a way to test that is clicking "unread content" in the white bar near the top and see if it lists anything.

Ok, I found it. Known bug, will be fixed in next version. Sorry about that. https://community.invisionpower.com/4bugtrack/active-reports/417-public-poll-does-not-show-voter-name-r10042/

It's actually slowed down a lot... the first day (when we were unaware) something like 10 came through. Since then we've had 2 make it through, but one was at like 2am CT so it took a few hours to catch. I try to strike a balance between making it accessible/friendly to new users, while keeping the machines out. Here's what I've done so far: New registrations require the industry-standard reCAPTCHA (identifying photos) to prove you're human New registrations require a valid email address (confirmed) New registrations require answering a custom question unique to this forum, to stop us from being affected by shotgun attacks against numerous forums We use a third party spam service that will catch any email/IP used for registration across a large number of forums Obviously they're still slipping past that occasionally, so for the short term I'm going to have all new registrations go into a queue where I have to approve them manually. That will slow down new registrations a bit, so I'll turn it back off once the spammers have settled down.

While we all agree that we need someone other than Sedevie in net, bumping like this clearly just creates confusion. Please don't do it.

I'm on it And for those who reported it right away, thanks! It really does help bring it to our attention ASAP.

I agree, I can't see them either. Will look into it.

UND's success on the ice this year has attracted international attention!

Oh, yeah. It's actually been that way for a long time. The author is locked out from editing after 24 hours (on the theory that it creates confusion to edit a post after it's been read a lot and there have been lots of replies). I have no problem tweaking it, but I thought 24 hours was pretty generous. How would you prefer it behave?

You mean for embedded tweets? They should convert from URLs to live tweets when you hit post. Until today, there was a bug that prevented that from happening if the tweet URL wasn't on it's own line. That should now be fixed.

Yep. My guess is extortion attempt. This sort of attack is not cheap. I assume they wrote the network provider and offered to back off for $$$. That the network owner refused and instead tried to work around it is why I can't be too mad about the down time.

Though SiouxSports.com has been happily chugging away, the owner of the network that sits between you and siouxsports has been under a significant attack that has limited everyone's ability to access the site from the outside. It's a pretty significant provider, hosting something like 500,000 sites, so they've been working hard to work around the attacks. Hopefully things will stabilize soon. For techies interested in the gory details, you can view their updates on the situation here: http://status.linode.com.

URL is same as it has always been -- http://wiki.siouxsports.com. Link is at the bottom (in the green footer) of the main pages. You're absolutely right that the fans of the wiki would be unhappy about that, in that it's a serious deemphasizing of it. In the earlier drafts I had actually dropped the wiki entirely, because it's usage is so low, but people emphatically assured me that they really wanted it.