[p2pu-dev] Fwd: [Website Error] Account bug?

[Charles Tanton]

>We're on our way to degree mill status! :)
hilarious! P2PU FTW...

I had a look and found the problem - someone had added some default "empty
text" to the view that's used to display this, so if your "About me" profile
field was empty, it put in "ICT based education practitioner.E-learning
consultant and also computer science Msc student!" as the default text.

One theory on how this could have happened - users with admin rights to the
site, when hovering over that block would see an edit link, which when
clicked would take them to the view - they possibly thought it was where
they could edit their profile info and entered this text there.

I've removed this text, so it should be back to normal for everyone (except
for the person who's actual qualifications these were - they would have been
revoked ;-)).

The correct place to edit the "About me" text,  would be here:
http://p2pu.org/user/me/edit/profile

On 4 February 2011 19:41, Alison Jean Cole <alisonjean.cole at gmail.com>wrote:

> Both Alan Webb and Laura White have this in their profiles as well...
> ALISON
> p2pu.org/users/alison
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> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 7:55 AM, Stian Håklev <shaklev at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> We're on our way to degree mill status! :)
>> S
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>> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 09:52, Rebecca Kahn <bekka.kahn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Can anyone help Mike out - in a bizarre reversal of P2PU ways of doing
>>> things, he's been given an actual degree (that isn't his...)
>>>
>>> B
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>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: <mkascel at gmail.com>
>>> Date: 4 February 2011 08:08
>>> Subject: [Website Error] Account bug?
>>> To: admin at p2pu.org
>>>
>>>
>>>    Mike Kascel sent a message using the contact form at
>>> http://p2pu.org/contact-us.
>>>
>>> I think some of the profile data from someone else is associated with my
>>> account; I have this at the top of my profile, which I didn't write:
>>>
>>> "ICT based education practitioner.E-learning consultant and also computer
>>> science Msc "
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Mike
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>> Skype: rebekahn
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