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

[Niels Sprong]

ah right, I kind of figured that out already. Still looks funny though!

On 7 February 2011 03:37, Alison Jean Cole <alisonjean.cole at gmail.com>wrote:

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 have been revoked ;-)).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