nuckinfutzcat on 12/7/2007 at 13:27
Over the past few days I have been seeing things like this in the column titled
"last post"
IBM Thinkpad T42 1.7GHz 512MB...
by john1
12th Jul 2007 12:53
and
SONY ERICSSON w900i AT JUST...
by john1
12th Jul 2007 12:51
When clicked I get the following
you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons: ...
When I click the username I get this
Invalid User specified. If you followed a valid link, ...
Anyone else seeing this ?
Fingernail on 12/7/2007 at 13:34
Yeah, basically those are ad/spam bots and the threads have been moved to the gulag or deleted, which is why you can't access them without admin priviledges. They still show up as the last post probably due to some kind of forum anomaly.
David on 12/7/2007 at 13:46
They show up because I use a script that I wrote outside of the vBulletin framework to update the database directly, and as such batch-delete all the spam threads at once. Currently the script does not update the last post column, although it is something that I do plan to fix at some point.
