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Anniversary Badges, Manipulation of Join Date and Combo Breaker Badge

ShandyrShandyr New
in Vanilla 2.0 - 2.8

Hello community :)

First off, this is once again is about the
Baldur's Gate EE Forum which runs the SaaS version of vanilla.

Still this issue may apply to other versions as well.

In that forum I have come across two people who seem to have manipulated somehow
their join date. Somehow the forum says they joined 2002/2003 respectively which is impossible
considering the forum exists since 2012 only.

My first question is:
Does any of you have an idea on how the forum may get tricked into thinking
someone joins at the time the forum didn't even exist?

Due to this manipulation and the strange behaviour of the anniversary badges (that are only
checked on sign in) those persons got all the anniversary badges at once, on the same day.

The second question is:
Why did getting all the anniversary badges at one day at once NOT trigger the combo breaker badge?

I am aware that you do not offer support for the SaaS version here.
I would just be glad for any ideas. Maybe someone of you encountered some similar issues on
other vanilla forums.

Thanks in advance :)
Shandyr

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    ShandyrShandyr New
    edited July 2014

    Ps:

    I just found a user on this forum where the situation applies as well:

    http://vanillaforums.org/profile/1/Mark

    @Mark‌ How did you join 1975? ^^
    (he was last active last year I see...d'oh)

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    whu606whu606 I'm not a SuperHero; I just like wearing tights... MVP

    @Shandyr‌

    Is your forum hosted by Vanilla?

    If so, you need to ask over at http://vanillaforums.com/

    This site deals with self-hosted, which doesn't have all the features of Vanilla hosted.

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    ShandyrShandyr New
    edited July 2014

    @whu606‌

    It's not my forum, I'm just a member there :/
    I'm not sure

    But let's say we were talking about this very forum.

    How did http://vanillaforums.org/profile/Mark
    join this forum in 1975?

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    x00x00 MVP

    @Shandyr Mark is a founder of Vanilla he manually enter the date for effect. That is his birth year I would of thought.

    grep is your friend.

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    ShandyrShandyr New

    Hmm interesting.

    I notice that there are quite some users on this forum who were absent for years, then got back and then got several anniversary badges at once and the combo breaker badge DID trigger.

    For example:

    http://vanillaforums.org/profile/3093/maar
    http://vanillaforums.org/profile/4638/ewm
    http://vanillaforums.org/profile/2094/blite

    Interesting to see. So it is supposed to trigger.

    Hey I know I should not ask here questions for the commercial version of vanilla.
    I am sorry :)
    I'm just a normal user on the BG EE Forum, so I don't have access to
    the http://vanillaforums.com/ support.

    I'll leave it at that for now.
    Still thanks for your help.

    Maybe one day someone from the open vanilla problems will stumble upon a similar problem
    and see this thread :)

    Cya guys.

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    peregrineperegrine MVP
    edited July 2014

    @Shandyr said:

    Maybe one day someone from the open vanilla problems will stumble upon a similar problem

    probably not, because it is a proprietary plugin only used on the hosted version of vanilla

    I may not provide the completed solution you might desire, but I do try to provide honest suggestions to help you solve your issue.

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    hgtonighthgtonight ∞ · New Moderator

    @Shandyr said:
    I notice that there are quite some users on this forum who were absent for years, then got back and then got several anniversary badges at once and the combo breaker badge DID trigger.

    According to the documentation, the combo breaker badge is awarded when you earn multiple types of badges on the same day.

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    peregrineperegrine MVP

    According to the documentation, the combo breaker badge is awarded when you earn multiple types of badges on the same day.

    I don't think it is still in effect.

    I may not provide the completed solution you might desire, but I do try to provide honest suggestions to help you solve your issue.

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    hgtonighthgtonight ∞ · New Moderator

    @peregrine said:
    I don't think it is still in effect.

    Interesting. That is how I understood and implemented my version for Yaga.

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    peregrineperegrine MVP
    edited July 2014

    I have not seen a combo breaker badge added since I joined.
    there was also a speed badge never seen that one used either. there are a few badges, that were one of a kind

    I may not provide the completed solution you might desire, but I do try to provide honest suggestions to help you solve your issue.

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    ShandyrShandyr New

    @peregrine‌

    Yeah, seems you're right.
    http://vanillaforums.org/badge/combo
    the combo breaker badge was last awarded in April 2013

    You cannot find it in the list of badges
    http://vanillaforums.org/badges

    So yeah it's disabled.

    I still do think that there is some manipulation or bug going on in concern of the joining date.
    Mark is a founder and set it himself probably.

    But on our forum it's another matter.
    As I don't want to discuss the commercial version here anymore I will look out for
    open vanilla forums with the same or a similar issue :)

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