[The Real Hawkeye]

And it's getting annoying. I think someone is having a good time at my expense. Every day it's something new. First I stop getting email notification. Then the threads are turned in backwards order. Then I change it back, and the next day I lose access to smilies in my postings. Fix that and my threads are in backwards order again. Is there anyway you can keep whoever it is from doing this? I would appreciate it. I have a sense of humor, but the joke has gone too far at this point.

[real_name]

I can't understand your post. Every other word is missing.





Sorry, I couldn't resist that.

AFAIK there is no way for a normal user to hack into your vBulletin account without your password. Is there someone at home who might be doing this?
If not, which Mod have you rutted antlers with lately?
And if not that unlikely scenario, you're going mad!?!

[The Real Hawkeye]

Real Name, I appreciate the humor, but I am really getting sick of having to change something back every day that somehow got altered. I'm sure I must rub some people the wrong way, but this is such a childish thing to do.

[real_name]

Seriously, check who else is using the computer, assuming you are allowing cookies.
Do you have kids that might be messing?

[hunttheevil]

Could be a hacker or spammer. They have been getting spammed pretty hard over on XDTALK.

[real_name]

Spammers do not access accounts and change options, they just create static.

[The Real Hawkeye]

Seriously, check who else is using the computer, assuming you are allowing cookies.
Do you have kids that might be messing?It's only me and my dog here. You don't suppose .... ? Nah!

[ChiefThunderstick]

Change your password and tell your computer not to remember it. In this way you will have to log on to THR each time but will probably be worth it.

[real_name]

What are you using?
Internet Explorer, Firefox, OSX?

Maybe others are having the same problem and we can correlate.

PM Derek in addition to this thread, it's unlikely he will miss seeing this but in case he does, if anyone knows it would be him.

[hockeybum]

It's only me and my dog here. You don't suppose .... ? Nah!

set up a spy cam...it could be a secret agent dog working for the lefty's. getting u annoyed so that you'll stop coming on THR and post stuff about guns :what: maybe he's trying to get you to go anti-gun

['Card]

This is a weird one.

There are really only two ways someone could get access to your account settings. Either someone else has your username and password, or they'd need to be a moderator.

And in this case, even if it was a moderator trying to mess with your head a little bit, I don't think they can do what you're describing. With a forum running vBulletin software a mod can change your access settings, reset your password, or make changes to your signature line, but I don't think they can adjust your account preferences at all.

[dustind]

I logged on a few days ago and you where listed as "member." I thought you had been banned. I am glad to see you back because I would have missed your posts.

I would assume it is some kind of server glitch.

[Derek Zeanah]

If it was an issue with the server, I'd assume it'd be happening to more people than you. I'd look into your browser settings, and I might try using a different browser for a bit and see if that fixes things.

Of course, that's not really a fix, because if you believe someone is doing this on purpose, and you've ever logged in to another machine and had it "remember you," then there's a cookie on that machine that will allow you access that's password independent (or so I believe...)

Is it still happening?