Danbooru

Rating vandalism

Posted under General

There's no way 65 pages worth of vandalism could've been accidental - and I don't think it would be worth anyone's time risking having that person do the exact same thing again on another account.

So meh, I wouldn't be against an IP ban.

Indeed, but as a moderator I can't IP-ban, it's an admin-only thing. jxh or albert will likely see the thread soon enough and act accordingly. (I actually don't know if admins other than albert can even IP-ban? Also I am not sure if moderators shouldn't also be able to IP-ban. Perhaps worthy of another thread.)

I've dug through quite a bit of Danbooru's source, and its admin/mod-specific UI features (I'm running a copy of Danbooru on my server), and I haven't seen anything related to IP address banning.

I would assume only Albert can do that, and that it involves some kind of tinkering outside of the controls presented on the Danbooru website itself.

It's very likely that this guy and asd1234 are just alt accounts of nadie1412, who was already IP banned for misrating posts.

Re: IP bans, moe.imouto.org has code for this. Personally, I would be cautious about giving mods this much power. Worst case scenario, if someone hacked a mod's account they could ban albert and all the other mods and have free reign over the site.

I would have to agree that the power to control IP bans should be limited. But, as far as someone having total control over the website... (in a worst-case scenario) hah, no, that wouldn't really happen.

Mr. Albert, as you know, is the Overlord - and has access to Danbooru's source, as well as physical access to the machine (or cluster?) that Danbooru runs on. There'd really be no way to prevent him -- even if he was theoretically IP banned -- from accessing said machine, switching to Downbooru, and fixing-up everything in the back end. If that did happen, a bit of cleanup would have to be involved, of course, but nothing terribly catastrophic, I would imagine.

ie, it'd basically be exactly just as bad as a mod's account getting stolen, plus a waiting period for Albert to come and fix the situation in the back end. It wouldn't be too far-off par with any kind of standard "someone guessed a very important person's password"-type cleanup procedure.

And I would also suggest not using the word "hacked" (or "hacker") in this context, but instead, using the terms "cracker" (no pun intended), "script kiddies", or "people who like to try and guess passwords" would be more appropriate -- referring to those kinds of people as hackers is a disgrace.

But meh, I'm being a nit-ficky little twat, here. Just saying, though =P

This guy is a bit strange. Apparently randomly edits posts as e for no reason, which would look like vandalism but:
- some of them being e already (unless the tags history fails, dunno why it happens sometimes),
- he seems to do some parenting job as well (but the examples are so obvious that it's hard to think no one did it before, yet it's not in the history either).
Maybe the rating stuff is done by mistake?
Anyway it's not as if he was doing any real harm like this but, so you know.

Cyberia-Mix said:
- he seems to do some parenting job as well (but the examples are so obvious that it's hard to think no one did it before, yet it's not in the history either).

I was puzzled about this too because I noticed the same thing happening with some other vandalism accounts, but I think I've figured what's happening now.

For a long time, parents weren't tracked in the tag history. Albert fixed this a while back. However, as a result, the first person who edits a parented post since this fix will be credited with adding the parent, even though they didn't really change it. So these vandals aren't really reparenting things, the parent edits are just being falsely attributed to them.

A side effect is that if you undo these edits with the Undo button in the tag history, you will also remove the parent. Unfortunately I accidentally unparented a lot of posts trying to undo their vandalism before I figured this out.

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