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What does the number of Referrals in user profile statistics mean?
vichet007 said:
What does the number of Referrals in user profile statistics mean?
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You can either, create a referrals URL, so that you give this to your friends, and they join via the URL and you get a referral.
Or
When registering (I'm told) there is a field to enter the name of an existing member who referred you to this site.
Dave
I've wondered about that too.
Thanks for clearing it up.
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You can either, create a referrals URL, so that you give this to your friends, and they join via the URL and you get a referral.
Or
When registering (I'm told) there is a field to enter the name of an existing member who referred you to this site.
Dave
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I still have absolutely no idea as to how I have come to have four of them Don't suppose there's a way to see who I referred?
ben_duder said:
I still have absolutely no idea as to how I have come to have four of them Don't suppose there's a way to see who I referred?
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Not in the Mod CP, maybe your posts inspired someone to join, remember a lot of people only join to download attachments .
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Not in the Mod CP, maybe your posts inspired someone to join, remember a lot of people only join to download attachments .
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Haha yeah, I doubt my contributions have encouraged them to though
ben_duder said:
Haha yeah, I doubt my contributions have encouraged them to though
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Surely 1 of the 609 must be worth something...
Now time to scour my 7000 for something worth while
DaveShaw said:
Surely 1 of the 609 must be worth something...
Now time to scour my 7000 for something worth while
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You'd be surprised I tend to be less helpful when I try to be, so maybe I should just flame my way to the big 1000
PS: If you're not too busy, can you mention to the powers that be the idea of having your phone, ROM and radio in your username bar (the thing to the left of each post - don't know what it's called...). It was mentioned in this thread as it went a little off topic in the second page, but it seems to have fizzled out a bit.
I think it would be a very useful idea as a lot of support threads ask for such information and quite a lot of users would rather not keep it in their signatures. It also standardises the layout of such things so you can quickly check which phone/ROM/whatever the user is talking about.
I suppose the issues would arise when someone has more than two or three phones as it would make the posts longer, but even then it wouldn't get so bad until it hit around five devices, as it's just two or three lines for each one. Maybe a drop-down box could be used for the device and we could recommend only including primary devices in that, while keeping older ones for your signature only.
ben_duder said:
You'd be surprised I tend to be less helpful when I try to be, so maybe I should just flame my way to the big 1000
PS: If you're not too busy, can you mention to the powers that be the idea of having your phone, ROM and radio in your username bar (the thing to the left of each post - don't know what it's called...). It was mentioned in this thread as it went a little off topic in the second page, but it seems to have fizzled out a bit.
I think it would be a very useful idea as a lot of support threads ask for such information and quite a lot of users would rather not keep it in their signatures. It also standardises the layout of such things so you can quickly check which phone/ROM/whatever the user is talking about.
I suppose the issues would arise when someone has more than two or three phones as it would make the posts longer, but even then it wouldn't get so bad until it hit around five devices, as it's just two or three lines for each one. Maybe a drop-down box could be used for the device and we could recommend only including primary devices in that, while keeping older ones for your signature only.
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It has already been suggested by some other mods, I can't recall who .
Okay, cool. Thanks!
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Thanks for explanation Dave. Got it now.
DaveShaw said:
You can either, create a referrals URL, so that you give this to your friends, and they join via the URL and you get a referral.
Or
When registering (I'm told) there is a field to enter the name of an existing member who referred you to this site.
Dave
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I could have sworn that at one point I'd been able to see who my referred sign-ups were, but I can't for the life of me find it now.
I've got 24, and although that's not a lot I'm a bit stumped as to how!
Is there a way to see who has signed up due to my referrals?
johncmolyneux said:
I could have sworn that at one point I'd been able to see who my referred sign-ups were, but I can't for the life of me find it now.
I've got 24, and although that's not a lot I'm a bit stumped as to how!
Is there a way to see who has signed up due to my referrals?
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I don't think that is something you can see yourself.
pulser_g2 said:
I don't think that is something you can see yourself.
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Poo. Ah well, cheers mate
Old thread, but wanted to post the method for creating a referrals URL since Dave's link above did not work..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/register.php?referrerid=4238197 <- replace this number with your user ID number
To find your user ID number, click on your user name in the upper right hand corner and see the new URL change in your location bar. Here is mine. Note the u= on the end.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/member.php?u=4238197
Referrals doesn't seem to do anything, but it is nice to know that I inspired someone to join up and hopefully contribute.
I've allowed everything for xda-developers.com in NoScript (security plugin for firefox)
However, it keeps complaining with the following message:
NoScript filtered a potential cross-site scripting (XSS) attempt from [http ://googleads.g.doubleclick.net]. Technical details have been logged to the Console.
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Lots of sites have Google ads, but this is the only site where I get this warning at all. And it appears on every single page load/reload.
The Console shows the following:
[NoScript XSS] Sanitized suspicious request. Original URL [http : //ib.adnxs.com/if?enc=exSuR-F6hD97FK5H4XqEPwAAAMDMzPQ_MzMzMzMzwz8zMzMzMzPDPxYgzvtorDoV6VJTQKPC4lqvig1OAAAAABUbAAC1AAAAQAEAAAIAAAAnLgYA0WMAAAEAAABVU0QAVVNEANgCWgDNCXIAZwoBAgUCAQQAAAAAKSALfwAAAAA.&pubclick=http://adclick.g.doubleclick.net/aclk?sa%3Dl%26ai%3DBx4p8r4oNTpuZLI2Qsga-9sGfAbCTnYIC4MzS9R-gv93XQQAQARgBIAA4AVCAx-HEBGCVspWCpAeCARdjYS1wdWItMjkwMDEwNzY2Mjg3OTcwNLIBGGZvcnVtLnhkYS1kZXZlbG9wZXJzLmNvbboBCTcyOHg5MF9hc8gBCdoBQGh0dHA6Ly9mb3J1bS54ZGEtZGV2ZWxvcGVycy5jb20vbmV3dGhyZWFkLnBocD9kbz1uZXd0aHJlYWQmZj0yNjOYAgrAAgTIApCcrRqoAwHoA8EI6AOCCPUDAAEARPUDAgAAAIAGy8quncCzmtog%26num%3D1%26sig%3DAGiWqtz7-voPfs18SW8fYOuzNNLwuLNjsA%26client%3Dca-pub-2900107662879704%26adurl%3D&tt_code=&udj=uf%28%27a%27%2C+1291%2C+1309510319%29%3Buf%28%27c%27%2C+91569%2C+1309510319%29%3Buf%28%27r%27%2C+405031%2C+1309510319%29%3Bppv%2813250%2C+%271529724590346870806%27%2C+1309510319%2C+1310115119%2C+91569%2C+25553%29%3Bppv%2813251%2C+%271529724590346870806%27%2C+1309510319%2C+1310115119%2C+91569%2C+25553%29%3B&cnd=!xR-SSwixywUQp9wYGAAg0ccBMAA4zRNAAEjAAlAAWABguQZoAHAAeACAAQKIAcDuAZABAZgBAaABAagBA7ABALkBMzMzMzMzwz_BATMzMzMzM8M_yQGamZmZmZnxP9kBAAAAAAAA8D_gAb0U&ccd=!BgVBKQixywUQp9wYGNHHASAA&referrer=http ://forum.xda-developers.com/newthread.php] requested from [http ://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/ads?client=ca-pub-2900107662879704&output=html&h=90&slotname=8721061031&w=728&ea=0&flash=10.3.181&url=http%3A%2F%2Fforum.xda-developers.com%2Fnewthread.php%3Fdo%3Dnewthread%26f%3D263&dt=1309510322371&bpp=9&shv=r20110622&jsv=r20110627&correlator=1309510322550&frm=8&adk=1221191187&ga_vid=1814271706.1309510322&ga_sid=1309510322&ga_hid=2004723125&ga_fc=0&u_tz=120&u_his=7&u_java=1&u_h=1050&u_w=1680&u_ah=1050&u_aw=1680&u_cd=24&u_nplug=17&u_nmime=105&biw=-12245933&bih=-12245933&ifk=2935903935&fu=0&ifi=2&dtd=314]. Sanitized URL: [http ://ib.adnxs.com/if?enc=exSuR-F6hD97FK5H4XqEPwAAAMDMzPQ_MzMzMzMzwz8zMzMzMzPDPxYgzvtorDoV6VJTQKPC4lqvig1OAAAAABUbAAC1AAAAQ20AAAIAAAAnLgYA0WMAAAEAAABVU0QAVVNEANgCWgDNCXIAZwoBAgUCAQQ20AAAKSALfwAAAAA.&pubclick=http://adclick.g.doubleclick.net/aclk?sa%3Dl%26ai%3DBx4p8r4oNTpuZLI2Qsga-9sGfAbCTnYIC4MzS9R-gv93XQQAQARgBIAA4AVCAx-HEBGCVspWCpAeCARdjYS1wdWItMjkwMDEwNzY2Mjg3OTcwNLIBGGZvcnVtLnhkYS1kZXZlbG9wZXJzLmNvbboBCTcyOHg5MF9hc8gBCdoBQGh0dHA6Ly9mb3J1bS54ZGEtZGV2ZWxvcGVycy5jb20vbmV3dGhyZWFkLnBocD9kbz1uZXd0aHJlYWQmZj0yNjOYAgrAAgTIApCcrRqoAwHoA8EI6AOCCPUDAAEARPUDAgAAAIAGy8quncCzmtog%26num%3D1%26sig%3DAGiWqtz7-voPfs18SW8fYOuzNNLwuLNjsA%26client%3Dca-pub-2900107662879704%26adurl%3D&tt_code=&udj=uf%20%20a%20%2C+1291%2C+1309510319%20%3Buf%20%20c%20%2C+91569%2C+1309510319%20%3Buf%20%20r%20%2C+405031%2C+1309510319%20%3Bppv%2013250%2C+%201529724590346870806%20%2C+1309510319%2C+1310115119%2C+91569%2C+25553%20%3Bppv%2013251%2C+%201529724590346870806%20%2C+1309510319%2C+1310115119%2C+91569%2C+25553%20%3B&cnd=!xR-SSwixywUQp9wYGAAg0ccBMAA4zRNAAEjAAlAAWABguQZoAHAAeACAAQKIAcDuAZABAZgBAaABAagBA7ABALkBMzMzMzMzwz_BATMzMzMzM8M_yQGamZmZmZnxP9kBAAAAAAAA8D_gAb0U&ccd=!BgVBKQixywUQp9wYGNHHASAA&referrer=http ://forum.xda-developers.com/newthread.php#10385806814645038455].
Security Error: Content at http ://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/ may not load data from http ://forum.xda-developers.com/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=263.
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I wonder what's so unusual about the ad scripting on this site.. does anybody know a work-around? is it just a bug somewhere?
Tsais said:
does anybody know a work-around? is it just a bug somewhere?
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No, I know a permanent solution: Install Adblock Plus.
(Sorry guys, but the advertising junk has really become dangerous these days, not just an annoyance any more.)
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No, I know a permanent solution: Install Adblock Plus.
(Sorry guys, but the advertising junk has really become dangerous these days, not just an annoyance any more.)
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I'll take it a few steps further. Use Firefox, install Adblock Plus, but donate to the forum - to make up for the clicks they lose via the ads. Ads suck, but the forum needs money to survive. I don't do ads either, but I do donate occasionally - as a matter of fact, I think it's time I did so again
This is the only site that I get all these cross-site-scripting alerts...with W7 IE9!
Of course it seems I'm on here 24x7
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No, I know a permanent solution: Install Adblock Plus.
(Sorry guys, but the advertising junk has really become dangerous these days, not just an annoyance any more.)
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I don,t think so.
I think they should have their advertizing money.
I don't have problems with ads crosscripting on any other site or forum. Its some bug specific to this site. But I'm not gonna turn off their ads, i still would like to have this forum available next year...
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Tsais said:
I don,t think so.
I think they should have their advertizing money.
I don't have problems with ads crosscripting on any other site or forum. Its some bug specific to this site. But I'm not gonna turn off their ads, i still would like to have this forum available next year...
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I'd rather donate to the forum, which I do. I don't wear logos and I don't do ads.
The internet is full of advertisments and let's face it, almost every site that has an ounce of traffic uses ad revenue. The intention of xda is not to burden its members with ads that distract from the user experience. With that being said, if you have a problematic ad, please take a screenshot of the ad and post here so admin can take care of it. right now, that is the solution in place.
Thanks for your help in keeping XDA "intrusive ad free".
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It doesn't happen all the time but I have this "mobprizes" redirect when visiting XDA.
Happened to me a few times so far, not sure if others are experiencing it.
Same as chazam ^^^^
First instance of it today. Web URL is mobprizes.com and the site header says 'Android Rewards'. Tried to browse XDA via Dolphin browser on Android and was auto-redirected to this spam page; you cannot press 'Back' or 'Exit' in the browser and have to click 'OK', whereupon another window opens asking you to enter your mob number (supposedly so they can contact you to sort out sending you your prize - which if you do a quick search on Google means you will receive plenty of premium rate text messages and no prize!).
Not sure what you folks can do but thought would mention it.
Incidentally, when performing a search re: this, one of the replies was on Yahoo Answers - when I clicked on this I was redirected to the same damn Android Rewards page!
I also noticed another forum in the search results is experiencing the same thing. Seems to be spreading.
Attached.
That ad at the bottom left corner just popped up from nowhere. I may not have captured it completely sry...
Edit: it's an IE rollover to view ad.
Hey everyone,
I have also created a forum where people (including myself) are experiencing similar problems.
Perhaps it would be a great idea to share our knowledge between the two forums and see what we can do to get rid of these annoying ads.
would of if i didnt have ad block
chazam said:
It doesn't happen all the time but I have this "mobprizes" redirect when visiting XDA.
Happened to me a few times so far, not sure if others are experiencing it.
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Same.
ok, as i got no response in the other thread, here's a repost of an intrusive ad i got the other day:
as you can see they were even trying to impersonate XDA's theme to trick you into thinking it was a legitimate XDA page?
omniwolf said:
as you can see they were even trying to impersonate XDA's theme to trick you into thinking it was a legitimate XDA page?
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The JS alert window looks like that, since FF4.0. Type javascript:alert('test message') into the address bar.
Please remove this
I'm not really bothered by the ads so i dont need an ad blocker but this 'IE rollover to view' ad is being a pain in the rear.
Pls get rid of it.
Thanks.
Edit: started using ad blocker
i clicked a reply notification from an email sent by the forum
this is the page it took me to
i blanked out my location to stop aliens tracking me
No offence meant to anyone here, but I'm quite surprised at all of this. Adblocks for Chrome and Firefox are available easily, nobody uses IE anymore and if you're on XDA you probably have a rooted phone and should logically therefore have an adblock app. If you really dislike ads, there's no need to put up with them
Nigeldg said:
No offence meant to anyone here, but I'm quite surprised at all of this. Adblocks for Chrome and Firefox are available easily, nobody uses IE anymore and if you're on XDA you probably have a rooted phone and should logically therefore have an adblock app. If you really dislike ads, there's no need to put up with them
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Those without adblocks are doing xda a favour i guess.
roofrider said:
Those without adblocks are doing xda a favour i guess.
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Don't the ads only work if you click on them? As fas as I know nobody actually clicks on the ads unless it's by accident to disabling them doesn't really have a negative effect on the site
Nigeldg said:
Don't the ads only work if you click on them? As fas as I know nobody actually clicks on the ads unless it's by accident to disabling them doesn't really have a negative effect on the site
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I dont click on them, but there are a few which act weird when the mouse hovers over them accidentally. Like this one.
New Avast is too annoying, will be migrating our thousands of customers off it
I'm going to haveto agree with the OP in this one.
The advertising is becoming annoying and the re-registering method has been made to be difficult to see where the free option is...
Quickfix I disagree with you, this product is the most popular free Antivirus not because of bull**** advertising, but because of word of mouth!
Now instead of here's a great free AV the word is here is a great free AV with intrusive ads...
nvm
trm, please delete this post
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Intrusive pop-ups "mobprizes" visiting XDA with my mobile phone...
there were a lot of problems when you tried to access the page from your phone from germany the porn ads were awful
abel06 said:
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Intrusive pop-ups "mobprizes" visiting XDA with my mobile phone...
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I just had the same thing. I click on 'OK' or whatever it said when i should probably have just used the back button. It took me to the mobprizes thing which is clearly a scam. Hopefully just being taken to the site but not clicking anything wont have installed any malicious (i've literally no idea about android malware/viruses etc.).
I googled (Firefox beta, SGN2, stock firmware) something about htc firmwares and clicked a link pointing to XDA. The correct page (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1529941) appeared for a few seconds then file download started (file was called FLV_Player_install.apk) and the browser was redirected to a page claiming (in Russian) that I have outdated version installed and I need to install an update (screenshot is attached). The page comes from domain blinko-mobile.com, domain owner info is hidden.
I'm sure that the apk contains some kind of virus.
I suspect this may be caused by some kind of injection in that topic.
I wasn't able to reproduce that by entering that page again.
Or it's not related to XDA and I should contact local law-enforcement authorities?
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I googled (Firefox beta, SGN2, stock firmware) something about htc firmwares and clicked a link pointing to XDA. The correct page (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1529941) appeared for a few seconds then file download started (file was called FLV_Player_install.apk) and the browser was redirected to a page claiming (in Russian) that I have outdated version installed and I need to install an update (screenshot is attached). The page comes from domain blinko-mobile.com, domain owner info is hidden.
I'm sure that the apk contains some kind of virus.
I suspect this may be caused by some kind of injection in that topic.
I wasn't able to reproduce that by entering that page again.
Or it's not related to XDA and I should contact local law-enforcement authorities?
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I just tried the thread linked above and I don't get anything about the FLV player. Not sure what it was that you clicked on there but it isn't here.
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mikef said:
I just tried the thread linked above and I don't get anything about the FLV player. Not sure what it was that you clicked on there but it isn't here.
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I can't reproduce it too %)
If there is no other reports about that stuff then it may be caused by my ISP. Russian cell operators are famous for swindle.
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Got it again! The same page, other ISP (wifi at office), other phone (Sensation, Cyanogen, default browser). There is something weird happening.
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I can't reproduce it too %)
If there is no other reports about that stuff then it may be caused by my ISP. Russian cell operators are famous for swindle.
UPD
Got it again! The same page, other ISP (wifi at office), other phone (Sensation, Cyanogen, default browser). There is something weird happening.
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I got the same problem, on different devices, different websites. This is really weird.
DarkDvr said:
I got the same problem, on different devices, different websites. This is really weird.
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The same "flv player"?
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The same "flv player"?
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Yup. I'm in russia, so Im not suprised that it's in russian.
However, I am curious as to why I see this thing on many websites, not just xda, on several devices, and on both my home WiFi and mobile network. That's just really strange.
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Yup. I'm in russia, so Im not suprised that it's in russian.
However, I am curious as to why I see this thing on many websites, not just xda, on several devices, and on both my home WiFi and mobile network. That's just really strange.
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It seems that there is some legal app called FLV Player so I cant find something useful about the virus... Only a so-called virus for [email protected]: (oops, I cant post links).
I don't really want to believe in some kind of "backbone provider conspiracy" but...
Are you in St. Petersburg? Which cell carrier? Megafon?
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It seems that there is some legal app called FLV Player so I cant find something useful about the virus... Only a so-called virus for [email protected]: (oops, I cant post links).
I don't really want to believe in some kind of "backbone provider conspiracy" but...
Are you in St. Petersburg? Which cell carrier? Megafon?
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In Moscow, MTS.
I doubt it's a conspiracy. What I think it is is some dumbass banner system is ocassionaly feeding many websites with a banner, that in certain cases leads mobile users to a (most likely) virus-filled "update".
Since it seems to be specific for mobiles, and doesn't always happen, website owners probably have no idea about it.
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In Moscow, MTS.
I doubt it's a conspiracy. What I think it is is some dumbass banner system is ocassionaly feeding many websites with a banner, that in certain cases leads mobile users to a (most likely) virus-filled "update".
Since it seems to be specific for mobiles, and doesn't always happen, website owners probably have no idea about it.
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Banners are able to inject JS? That means that some bad guy can fake, for example, login form...
Hi there,
Just letting you guys know about some odd behavior I encountered.
I couldn't remember if I had an account here or not, so I figured I'd try a password (username) retrieval, and no matter how many times I tried, I kept getting "The string you entered for the image verification did not match what was displayed."
I'm always careful to refresh Captchas until I'm absolutely certain I know what it says, and I tried 5+ times - I can't be that bad at entering them!
I know now that I didn't have an account on the site, and this was presumably why it was giving an error - albeit the wrong description for the error.
Thanks,
Moley
Moley13 said:
Hi there,
Just letting you guys know about some odd behavior I encountered.
I couldn't remember if I had an account here or not, so I figured I'd try a password (username) retrieval, and no matter how many times I tried, I kept getting "The string you entered for the image verification did not match what was displayed."
I'm always careful to refresh Captchas until I'm absolutely certain I know what it says, and I tried 5+ times - I can't be that bad at entering them!
I know now that I didn't have an account on the site, and this was presumably why it was giving an error - albeit the wrong description for the error.
Thanks,
Moley
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Yeah, if the account doesn't actually exist that'll mess a few things up! :laugh:
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Yeah, if the account doesn't actually exist that'll mess a few things up! :laugh:
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Haha, it would seem so.
A "There is no account for this email address on this site" error may have been more appropriate thought!
I'm sure a site full of developers can appreciate the need for accurate error codes/reporting
Moley13 said:
Haha, it would seem so.
A "There is no account for this email address on this site" error may have been more appropriate thought!
I'm sure a site full of developers can appreciate the need for accurate error codes/reporting
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Indeed. If there's one thing I really hate, it's when I execute a command or, well, do something, and when it has an error, it either doesn't return a message at all, or it returns an obscure message that doesn't help anyone fix the problem. Major pet peeve of mine.
Is there anything more I can do to bring this to the attention of the webmasters (mods?)?
Other than through the contact link down the bottom of the page (I feel that wouldn't be the most efficient).
Cheers
Moley13 said:
Is there anything more I can do to bring this to the attention of the webmasters (mods?)?
Other than through the contact link down the bottom of the page (I feel that wouldn't be the most efficient).
Cheers
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If I'm not mistaken, the only options are:
1. Use the inefficient contact link method
2. PM the moderator to which you'd like to bring the problem
3. Post it on XDA (which, of course, you've already done)
I'm not aware of any other methods.