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

Niels Sprong nielssprong at gmail.com
Fri Feb 4 19:34:13 UTC 2011


I actually spotted another one of these generic mistakes a few weeks ago,
but thought it was too funny to report.  :-)

Quite sure this photo shows on a number of people's pages.

That said, I don't know how you navigate to this page on p2pu.org, but it is
Alison's top and my second google hit....

On 4 February 2011 18:51, Charles Tanton <charles at parkroad.co.za> wrote:

> >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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 7:55 AM, Stian Håklev <shaklev at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> We're on our way to degree mill status! :)
>>> S
>>>
>>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ---------- 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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