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

[Alison Jean Cole]

That was in the old "team" pages. I think the pages were all created by
Bekka, therefore her avatar sits on the page. The title happens to be the
name of the team member. It's ok, we don't use those pages anymore.

ALISON
p2pu.org/users/alison





On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Niels Sprong <nielssprong at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 have been revoked ;-)).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
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Rebecca Kahn
>>>>> Skype: rebekahn
>>>>>
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