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So what kind of glitch would create this post?

Forum|Forum|12 years ago
January 31, 2014
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So yesterday after five I was at work, and logged into the Adobe forums. Today, I went to my profile to look at the threads I posted in yesterday, and I found a post I didn't make under my name:

http://forums.adobe.com/message/6071240#6071240

The creepiest part of this, for me, is that I actually know rather more than the average bear regarding theories of archaic Pacific migration. I mean, lots more, courtesy of a hardass anthropology professor, some years ago. And I've gone on record on the Internet, recently, in forums where they care a lot about theories of Oceanic migration, that I don't care all that much about theories of Pacific migration. So I know that that is not a post I'd make.

I'm guessing that this is a Jive issue, not someone very carefully messing with my head. Have there been recent reports of "Hey, that's not my posting style!"?

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the_wine_snob

Inspiring

Joel,

The Reply, to which you refer, was actually posted by Steven Gotz (see Reply #591 in that thread). He is a standup guy, and frequent contributor on several forums. He was as astounded, as you were, that the Reply was attributed to you. He has no clue HOW that happened, and neither do I.

No closer to the solution, than before, but we now know that this was not a prank, as far as any of us can tell.

Wish that I had more to offer, but those are the recent tid-bits.

Hunt

Noel Carboni

Legend

You guys are having posts attributed to the wrong users.

-Noel

adobe-admin

Legend

To clarify, are you referringi to post 558 "maybe it wasn't on purpose..."?

thanks!

Joel Cherney

Author

Community Expert

Yup, 558 is the one, adobe-admin.

I wonder if this is happening only to InDesign forum regulars? Is it really just me and Uwe? Or are we the only people who noticed?

Lastly: when I say that I spend a lot of time posting about Oceanic migration, I was serious. To have that particular post under my name is kind of embarassing. Any chance that we can find the poster who actually said that, and put it under that poster's identity? Or otherwise expunge it from my posting history? No real rush about it, but if my Pacific clients happen to find me saying that their ancestral voyaging heroes "may very well have been able to fish" then I might have some awkward explaining to do.

Noel Carboni

Legend

Joel Cherney wrote:
I wonder if this is happening only to InDesign forum regulars? Is it really just me and Uwe? Or are we the only people who noticed?

Just curious, Joel, but did you read anything in this thread besides adobe-admin's answer? Examples of others experiencing similar problems have been given.

-Noel

adobe-admin

Legend

Yours is the second. I'll pass this along to Jive.

Thanks!

John Waller

Community Expert

Here's another one - reply #3 in a discussion in the Creative Cloud forum.

http://forums.adobe.com/message/6076126#6076126

John T Smith definitely did not post that. The OP in that thread did.

Edit: no issue with thread. JTS confirmed that he did post it.

mytaxsite

Inspiring

John Waller wrote:
Here's another one - reply #3 in a discussion in the Creative Cloud forum.
http://forums.adobe.com/message/6076126#6076126
John T Smith definitely did not post that. The OP in that thread did.
This is definitely a Jive bug.

It appears in JTS's history of postings so either his account is hacked or he DID post that message for his own personal information.

Only he can confirm this.

Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

Joel,

Indeed.

It was last reported a month ago in this thread,

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1368332?tstart=0

and no explanation has been found.

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