GENTLEMEN!! freak yourselves out...

[Metal Alex]

http://forum.team17.co.uk/showpost.php?p=24599&postcount=51

ok, who the hell is that guy? a hacker or something?

(get 1000000 metal points if you show us his profile)

[Cisken1]

Neh, that's a cheap alt enter trick or something like that, seen it on quite a few forums...

[Melon]

It's likely to be somebody who's account has been deleted or something like that. Maybe once Team17 decided to remove really old inactive accounts that hadn't posted, and didn't realise that he had, and so he got removed, yet the post remains. Or something like that.

[Star Worms]

It's likely to be somebody who's account has been deleted or something like that. Maybe once Team17 decided to remove really old inactive accounts that hadn't posted, and didn't realise that he had, and so he got removed, yet the post remains. Or something like that.If an account is deleted, they become a guest on their posts.

As no URL of his profile is shown on any page and there isn't an online/offline button, I think it's pretty safe to say that he doesn't have a profile and is effectively non-existant.

[AndrewTaylor]

The joke's on him -- I don't think anyone's going to spend all afternoon tracing his email address through the source or SQL or anything just to let him know the username registration is open again.

[Metal Alex]

Neh, that's a cheap alt enter trick or something like that, seen it on quite a few forums...

ok, I want to see the profile. That's my point :)

[Cisken1]

ok, I want to see the profile. That's my point :)

Impossible.

[franpa]

^ :)

click the link to see where the post was made.

http://forum.team17.co.uk/showthread.php?t=3617&page=2 (post 51)

[Preasure]

I can't find a profile. Wierd.

[SuperBlob]

I think it's this guy - http://forum.team17.co.uk/member.php?u=24599

[Star Worms]

I think it's this guy - http://forum.team17.co.uk/member.php?u=24599Nope, that's not him. The 24599 was the id of the post number. The entire section of where his username should be doesn't exist, not even the "<a href="http://forum.team17.co.uk/member.php?u=$whatever">".

If someone could find his profile page then there would be no username, no avatar, no profile fields etc.

[franpa]

Nope, that's not him. The 24599 was the id of the thread number. The entire section of where his username should be doesn't exist, not even the "<a href="http://forum.team17.co.uk/member.php?u=$whatever">".

If someone could find his profile page then there would be no username, no avatar, no profile fields etc.

fixed. :)

hahaha i reported the post as problematic :)

[AndrewTaylor]

I don't know what would happen if I deleted it. It could destory the universe.

[thomasp]

Ages ago, APJ pruned a lot of inactive e-mail accounts (including ones with inactive addresses) - when the user account got deleted, the posts remain but had no username listed next to them. And since there's no username, when you quote a post using the new feature in vB3.6, it can't realise there's no username, so screws up and shows the postnumber instead.

Nothing freaky about it - just a feature of vBulletin.


And please don't report posts unless they break a forum rule - us user mods don't want our inboxes filled up with reports about users who no longer exist.

[franpa]

ok, glad we got an explanation :)

[AndrewTaylor]

And please don't report posts unless they break a forum rule - us user mods don't want our inboxes filled up with reports about users who no longer exist.

Speak for yourself; I've banned four people who don't exist this morning.

[Cisken1]

Speak for yourself; I've banned four people who don't exist this morning.

THIS is why we love you...

[Liketyspli]

THIS is why we love you...

*Is suprised to hear nothing about babies*

[Cisken1]

*Is suprised to hear nothing about babies*

>OMFG 'AVE MA BABIES!!

[Muzer]

It doesn't screw up and show the post no., it always shows the post number now and that's how you get that little arrow next to quotes.