If you've been around FlyerTalk for any amount of time - you know that I'm very comfortable taking responsibility for things gone wrong (even if i/we are only in the area). But this time - I think it only fair to point out the cause of our problem. A little while back, a member or two thuoght they would be cute and try to hack into the code creating posts that had time-stamps on them as well as putting the member name in the post directory. Well, it spawned amateur wanttabees and we've had several of these try to do things which they have absolutely no business doing and no talent to do. These have unfortunately created a few 'runaway processes' which are a problem. We can fix them over time - but it's very expensive and very time consuming. We have repaired damages orginally caused and corruption is now stable, but it is taking a tremendous effort to fix all the related damage.

So, if you'd like to say thanks for the problems, please remember who started these hacks and those that tried to copy their efforts. Remember a particular member who couldn't seem to get any of the hack coding correct and it appeared in his topic titles and posts??

For once, we'll assign the blame. Go talk to those members to again ask them how cool they are. Really (good) cool people don't damage things.