Most Unusual Forum Problem

[Shawn Gossman]

What's the most unusual problem you've ever had to solve as a forum admin?

This could be a problem with the forum itself, a member, staff member, or anything else of that nature.

What was the problem and what did you learn from it?

 

[Ashley]

Once when I was posting on Forum Promotion, there. Was a glitch where, once you hit post reply and your message went through, instead of saying "last posted 1 minute ago" it would say "last post was tomorrow" as if it were some kind of time capsule or something. It was hilarious, although I don't think people wanting to request services for their own forum very amusing lol. It did get fixed, but it was a few years ago so I no longer remember details

 

[Shawn Gossman]

Once when I was posting on Forum Promotion, there. Was a glitch where, once you hit post reply and your message went through, instead of saying "last posted 1 minute ago" it would say "last post was tomorrow" as if it were some kind of time capsule or something. It was hilarious, although I don't think people wanting to request services for their own forum very amusing lol. It did get fixed, but it was a few years ago so I no longer remember details

That would have been interesting to see. LOL. I'd have to check the date and make sure it wasn't April 1st.

 

[Ashley]

That would have been interesting to see. LOL. I'd have to check the date and make sure it wasn't April 1st.

Right? Although I'd be pissed if I wanted to request a package or review only to find everything saying the same thing lol. I'd be like, can I request a service now or am I still on a wait time from a previous request? Definitely a funny/not funny for sure

 

[Hulk]

On a forum I used to work on that had package services the owner would always want a package for their own forum (the same one the services were on)

 

[Ashley]

On a forum I used to work on that had package services the owner would always want a package for their own forum (the same one the services were on)

Wouldn't that be kinda cheating? I mean if you paid for services with forum credits, as the owner, he'd have more credits than anyone else! I hope he abided by his own rules for requesting services at least?

 

[Hulk]

Wouldn't that be kinda cheating? I mean if you paid for services with forum credits, as the owner, he'd have more credits than anyone else! I hope he abided by his own rules for requesting services at least?

The owner paid for these packages with real money. It is just weird that they would pay their own staff to do a package like that.