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BEHOLD MY MIGHT, FOR I AM ALL POWERFUL !
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that, my friends, is a screeny of the admin section of AT; it's me lifting the ban of Mayne, which i did BECAUSE I CAN, as i am all powerful.

A couple hours ago i logged in, and it looked like i was banned; forum responsive, but a message saying "you have no authorization to view this content".

I thought i'd check if AT was down or broken, so i launched it in firefox, without login. Lo and behold, i had admin access.

I also noticed that some asshat called jsdavdson was banning everyone.

So i opened the ban list and started unbanning everyone. He must have gotten wind of this because some folks were re-banned, like, Mayne got banned 3 times. Probably some ex user who really hates him.

Obviously i messaged AT on Twitter and they rolled back the forums, which is a shame because all my godlike powers are now gone. But it felt good for an hour.
 
I wonder if people were getting ban notification emails for this. LOL. I did not get any myself though and I presume I got banned too since I was getting accessed denied.
 
Hahahaha, this is too perfect. A random member anonymously gave me a $20 amazon gift cert through Elfenix and that message is gone. HACKERS OWE ME 'BOUT $20!!1!!11
 
stormkroe said:
Hahahaha, this is too perfect. A random member anonymously gave me a $20 amazon gift cert through Elfenix and that message is gone. HACKERS OWE ME 'BOUT $20!!1!!11
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lolol you've been had.



Sadly, all of my wit and humor has been lost for today. Damned radical squirrel terrorists.
 
dawp said:
mine was all black and red, told me I didn't didn't have access and wasn't authorized for the action i was attempting.
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^ Ditto. In addition to being told that Mayne, and a bunch of other people, had been permanently banned (though I don't recall seeing any sort of option to un-ban them...)
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And yeah, that was one nasty-looking "theme"...😱
 
Yep. Menu bar and Post buttons turned fluorescent red. I was told I have no permission to post. But I did actually ban Mayne. For two weeks. Under his name it said "banning" so maybe I wasn't the first. I didn't think it would actually work.
 
I was furiously banning as many names as I recognized, then felt bad and unbanned a few, then realized having so much power was boring.
 
FeuerFrei said:
Yep. Menu bar and Post buttons turned fluorescent red. I was told I have no permission to post. But I did actually ban Mayne. For two weeks. Under his name it said "banning" so maybe I wasn't the first. I didn't think it would actually work.
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From the moderator log you could see that Mayne was banned and unbanned about a dozen times LOL.

He's popular.
 
I was 6 tallboys in when i tried to log in. I was like "i'm pretty sure I didn't say anything stupid last night?" you guys are so mean lol.
 
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