Iciar has taken lots of Members Comments!!!!!! UPDATE..

What is Iciars? lincslass

Iciar is a member Drc, So some of your comments are coming up as if you are Iciar and not linclass? Thats weird, I hope Dave can sort this out for you!

Iciar is an old account Denise, sometimes my comments come up under that avatar, it never gives an edit option when that happens so one cannot delete said comment or add to them, its happened to other people as well, over the past few weeks I have been losing lots of comments, I am possibly worrying over nothing as far as the PM's are concerned but until I hear from admin I felt that it only fair to warn people...

sorry to hear you are still having problems,Sue..I hope you get it sorted,once and for all..Luckily,I have never lost any of my comments,but I know of at least one other member it happened to as well.It's really weird,isn't it? You did right to contact Dave..good luck..x

I'd better stop calling you horrible names in PMs then Sue lol ... ;D
Seriously though, I hope it can be sorted out for you. It must be a nuisance.

Hi Sandra and thankyou..

Lol, its ok as long as they go to the right person Hywel, I haven't done it to my knowledge but imagine the chaos that could be caused by comments going to the wrong people, I think they are only going to Iciar, I have looked at the photo's and profile in the past but before tonight I hadn't ever looked in the comments boxes....

That is so strange and yes, worrying. Private messages often container sonar details such as addresses etc, so we need to know that they stay private!

Thats the way I was thinking Karen, I'm hoping something can be done, I don't want to have to change my account, not even sure if that would help...

Do you mean you looked at Iciar's profile and found comments there? WhenI looked at it there weren't any. Its all very odd.

I went to the profile and from there to the news, checked out the received and sent comments, there are comments from lots of us, as I said it never occured to me before to do that before....Just checked again they are still there...
Now I know its weird, I just went to yours Stera and cannot see your comments boxes..

out of curiuosity i I put "iciar" into GoY search, the very first option was "Iciar's inbox - page1 : Grows on You" - which must be worrying for Iciar too!

I was able to see several comments by me (which were made on their pics) but there were comments by others as well - and I was also able to see "sent" comments as well, which doesn't sound right! someone with the wrong turn of mind could abuse the security breach.

Oddly, the breach only happens when the name is put into search! i clicked on the link for one of the photo i'd commented on, and was taken to it, and then clicked iciar's icon, which took me to his profile - with no comments option.

I clicked on Stera's icon, to double-check, there's no "comment" option available to me there. Or yours, Kaen and Lincs.

to double-double check, I used GoY search for Karen and LIncs; both show pages of plants and blogs, nothing more.

it shows my inbox and outbox, but maybe cos it's me searching!

ps: ALERT, ALERT, ALERT!

just as i clicked the saerch page off, I noticed someon eelse's "outbox" - so i entered "outbox" in the GoY search and found "about 5,200" - on the first page alone there were two people from my Favourites.

maybe people should get people they trust to try it and let htem know if their own outbox is shown; no point trying it onself, as the system will presumably recognise that one is asking about oneself and therefore it's ok to show results

also tried "inbox" and got oer 11,000 results.

pps - these are only comments that are made on other people's pics, and one's responses to them, which are already public - but i couldn't find "outboxes" for my backup tests and so there must be a glitch somewhere.

I rechecked iciar and there's no "message" option, so that's a relief! the pm's seem still to be "p"

Thank goodness I am not the only one Fran, I was quite disturbed when Stera said she could not see the other comments from different members, makes me wonder how many of us are being affected in this way without even realising, you can see why I put the warning on, it needs checking out .

Relieved to say I have checked and you are right the pm's are not coming up, it doesn't really matter about the comments, if we have put them on the blogs then we know they are all there for the world to see but I'd still like it checked out just in case and also would prefer it if my comments went to the correct blog....Perhaps we are s'posed to be able to see inboxes/outboxes, the magic of the web and all that....

If you go to a profile, you can't see them (other peoples out/in boxes), but you can see them on other pages, it's quite confusing. It's also unecessary in my view. There's no good reason to see other people's outbox and inbox....although as you rightly point it, every comment is out there for the whole world to see anyway. If we can get a reassurance from Dave that the PMs are safe, and that the whole Iciar mystery is sorted....fine.

Hi Karen, yes thats correct, I was quite shocked to see all those comments, goodness knows who they all came from, it would take an age figuring it out, although in another sense relieved to discover where they had actually gone, its weird and certainly beyond my capabilities of how to stop it happening, lol, I was really pleased to receive my reply, its a relief to know someone who knows what they are doing is looking into it, our guardians are now on the case so to speak.... You are so right about the PM's thats really what stirred me up, I don't send many but do owe one at the moment, being bit too cautious perhaps but rather wait whilst the site is being checked out....

Its the baby picture isn't it?
has it ever been a real person or a gremlin I wonder.
I must admit if I recieve someones address in a pm.....email or snail mail .....I delete it.

hope its sorted soon x

I'm sure a person Pam and I think possibly one of the earliest members, there are photographs posted which I looked at years ago when I first became Iciar, no postings for years although the account remains open, if ever whomsoever it is comes back on they will have a lot to read and probably wonder what the heck is going on.....lol....

I am going to do just that with the PMs. The only ones I keep have addresses! I shall transfer them to my address book in future.

Johnjoe's had problems with Iciar :-(
....Oh No!!!!!! I just remembered I told Pam and Bloomer about my massive Lottery win in a pm. Now I'll have all those begging letters:-(

LOL! BA....gees a loan!?

Ba I thought we were all shipmates, how come I don't know about your win, LOL...

This is quite worrying, Lincslass. I've also put this into members search and was amazed who was on there. Can the admin people not close this account down?

Don't know what they will do Waddy but feel sure they now will try there hardest, it used to be just an annoying episode of which I hadn't got a clue how to fix but its gradually getting worse, I gave up looking so not sure how many comments are actually on there...Quite a lot of members comments on there ...

Thanks for the loan Ba......I still think 132% a day a bit high but I know your heart is good......

hope you get an answer soon Lincs, I suppose until you mentioned it they didn't realise what was happening.....

Only 1.32% Pam ?? what a cheek,mine is much more..so much for friends eh ? you can go off people,can't you? No wonder Ba can afford a new kitchen table and chairs...

Don't complain...she won't even give me a loan..probably thinks I'm too high risk, the amount I spend on plants!

Well,yes,Karen,there is that to consider :o)

What I can't understand is why some people's inboxes come up on Search and not other people's. there seems to be some glitch somewhere.

I've received pm's with addresses, when I was posting seeds to people; I made sure to delete those after I'd posted the packages, partly for security, and partly to assure them that I wouldn't be taking advantage of that privileged information!

I did satrt deleteing my pm's once I'd answered them, but there's pages and pages ... the fun element soom wears off *s*

Karen I knew it would happen, Bloomer and Pam, your welcome to some of my good fortune, that's what friends are for:-))

I've never deleted a pm unless asked, never thought to. It's like keeping cards, don't know why I do it. I even keep a lot of personal emails. No wonder I need more memory:-(

Well that's the thing isn't it. I kept peoples addresses so I wouldn't have to ask again in future, but if anyone wants me to scribble them out of my address book then please feel free to say so! I'm deleting all my PMs from now on.

Not 1.32% .......but a Hundred and thirtytwo percent!.....
its Ba finance don't forget.......

Oh hello Ba dear please don't send in the heavies I'll pawn the goldfish......

I have pms from Val (Yorkshire) can't delete them and other friendly stuff:-( Is there any reason to think our pms are unsafe?
Pammy Pammy Pammy, no more of this foolish talk or you may find a horses head in your bed:-))

anything I particulary want to keep i copy and paste into Word, and then save in a "GoY" folder. lol apart from security, makes it easier to search for specific words that I know are in there when I can't remember where I've put something

Good idea Fran. I've got a huge file of PMs and i wish you could delete them in blocks instead of only one at a time.

lol I started by deleting the oldest first, on the last page, but after each one it takes me back to the newset, on the first page. so i have to go to the last page, delete, get taken to the first palge ...

sigh, and when I delete a "sent" pm, the screen takes me to the "received" messages, so got to click "sent" and start again ...

of course i cuold st art at page 1! but there's "letters" that i'e het to answer - ha, maybe I should do that first

and I've got 25 pages of "sent" pm's ... i rarely write telengraph-length messages!

Just to clarify Ba there hasn't to my knowledge ever been anything wrong with the PM's, I have asked Dave about them just to be sure, only wanted members to keep an eye on them just in case, I don't send many myself but do realise others do.
Sorry I don't want to cause a panic, just wanted folk to keep an eagle eye on their own pages and messages, when I was testing it out the other day and seeing how and what can be found the only PM box I could open was my own....I kept going back to doublecheck, I can assure you if I'd found access to any even Iciars I would have really YELLED OUT LOUD!!!!!!!!!! LOL...
In actual fact I myself have every PM I have ever sent/received over the years..

I knew my pm's were safe, or was fairly sure htey were, but i doubt i'd re-read 25 pages each of sent and received messages, so mght as well tidy up a bit - no idea how much extra "weight" all our old pm's are adding to the site!

Oh heck Fran thats never occurred to me,I don't understand the why's and wherefores, no teccie here at all, lol, I tend to leave the news a long time as well, then when its taking an age to load I scroll my way down hitting the seen / stop following part...

I recently tackled the time consuming job of deleting most of my 'sent' messages a few weeks ago..right back to 2009,and what a job ! laborious to say the least,at one at a time ! especially as I ended up reading them as I went along..then started on 'received' next..I kept a few more of those..I am definitely going to keep up now,as couldn't face doing all that again...

that was my prob, Bloomer - by the time I realised that I didn't have to keep them all, there were so many that I quailed at the thought of deleting them one at a time!

Any info I copy to a Word doc, such as the how-to when people very kindly sent me babies; then I can enlarge the font to make it easier to read. But I don't really *need* 25 pages of old pm's!

I've been chipping away at the old "received", since deleting "sent" keeps taking me to the 1st page pf tje "received" folder. down to "only" 14 pages there now, lol. it'll take longer to delete the "sent" cos I have to keep going back to the "sent" folder every damn time

I know the feeling only too well,Fran..it would be nice to have an easier way of deleting them..instead of having to go back each time..If we could just have a tick box ,like on emails,to delete all you don't want to keep.in one go,.life is never that simple,when it comes to technology though..I'm just glad mine are all done now..it's just keeping up in future..

It does seem a rather daunting task. I had millions of emails until a year ago as I thought there was no way to delete blocks on Outlook Express as there is no tick box. Someone showed me how to do it and I keep pretty up to date on those now. I don't send many pms, but over the years those received and sent have certainly added. I am such a technophobe. I expect some pms will make very pleasant reading in my dotage lol:-))

Sorry Cap'n I don't know what came over me!

Aye aye Pam:-)

Hi Lincslass, just to add to this blog. Earlier today I left a comment for Cottagekaren on one of her plant photos. Lo and behold up pops Iciar's avatar when I sent my comment. Both Karen and I have flagged it with admin. It was photo no. 610 (Nigella), if anyone would like to refer to it. Did you get any possible explanation from GoY admin. dept?

Hi there Alan, no explaination at all, I think they were as baffled as the rest of us, thanks for telling me though, I haven't had any problems with Iciar for a while now but forewarned is forearmed, I've had a mega problem this week with my laptop, only got it fixed tonight so haven't been on here much to notice ..

Thanks Sue and good luck. If Karen or I have a response from admin. We will post any feedback that's helpful, here. I would imagine it is going to difficult to resolve as it only occurs periodically and there is no 'hard' fault as such, to work on, then test that it is fixed.

Sounds like a bug in the system to me.
I got another security warning about the site yesterday, not the first time, the techies again are not sure why.
Myself I think its some of the advertisments that cause problems

Pamg, was this through Norton or AVG antivirus software on a PC? Or something else ? Thanks. You could be right about a bug in an advertisers software, but they are all probably thoroughly checked by GoY website administrator, before integration/acceptance onto the site.

Its a tablet pc I use , not sure about technical details

Ok, not to worry, thank you for replying.