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From: Hildy
Date: Nov 22, 2007 7:26 AM
Subject: a confession and an apology.
To: PagingDr Admins
I'm sorry for what I did. I didn't mean to delete anyone else's posts, and I didn't think I could. (what I suspect happened was that I deleted my own posts sufficiently quickly that something got corrupted.)
Some time ago I had a discussion with several admins about possibly deleting my account and my old posts. Over the weekend I asked Kimmy if this could go ahead, as lately all I've been writing is "I don't think this is the way things work" to people who post incorrect things. It just wasn't fun to think and write anymore. The community had grown too large, too quick.
On Monday I repeated the request to WB.
On Wednesday my internet access was being slow and I noticed that the delete buttons were still on all my old posts while the page was loading, but disappeared after the page was loaded. This, to me, suggested javascript modifying the page, and upon reading the HTML/JS source I discovered that the deletion restrictions were implemented in js.
I then ran the following script:[script omitted]
which [details omitted], and then runs those 10 at a time. I ran them 10 at a time because I was being impatient at this point. I suspect the proboards system may not be completely up to people hammering it.
I don't think it should be possible for a normal user to delete other people's posts. If so, it's a bigger security breach than I have any desire to exploit, anyhow. All I want is some modicum of privacy back. If/when you do restore the forum, please do not restore my old posts.
Again, I'm sorry for what happened, and if you have any questions, feel free to call me on [redacted].
-H
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