I'm just curious, how come this forum gets hacked so much?
Way more than any other forums I'm on.

Mad

IDK? It seems like the spammers get deleted pretty quickly. I don't see them posting repeatedly. Good thing, that could get out of hand in a hurry.

I just ignore them.

So far today, a lot of threads are hacked with ads for bitcoins and crap. Checked this morning. Still there now.

Mad

Mad

Yeah, I don't think BG bothers to delete those any more. IDK, I don't pay much attention to them.

Prob outdated forum software. I'm on quite a few other sites, and not many, if any, get hacked, that I ever see anyway .. of course this one isn't bombarding us with ads! Small price to pay IMO

We got bombarded again.

And if you had bought bit-coin last year, you would have retired this year.
Same for Tesla stock.
Man, I looked at that Stock in March 26, 2020. It was around $400 a share. I could have bought 50 shares. The next month Space-X rocket takes 3 astronauts into outerspace and Tesla's Stock did, too. Split 5 for 1 and raced back to $800 a share. Makes my head hurt.
Our site says it is "not secure", whatever that means.
One thing I don't like about the Internet is people taking a copy of my photos and placing them on their Flickr page which they then sell. I need to get a lightly colored name overlay on the photo. I have no clue how to do it.
I posted this photo of 2 cars I owned in 1974. (I'm looking for another 1962 Studebaker Daytona, factory 4-speed)
The car my Dad bought for me to drive to high school. We lived on a Farm and no school bus in the county. I had it for 7 years, restored it while I was in the Army in 1973. Then I got seduced by the 1970 SST Javelin, factory 4-speed, in Big Bad Green and the only year with a real hood scoop. I sold the Daytona to a guy in North Dakota who was in the Studebaker Club.
Go to flickr and punch-in Studebaker or Daytona or Javelin and my photo is there. In the background is my 1972 Kawasaki Mach III . I lived in the basement apartment after getting out of the Army.

* Last updated by: doubleD on 1/14/2021 @ 7:09 PM *

doubleD:

I use a free program called Paint.net Download and install that.

Then Open your pic with it. Hit F7 to turn on the Layers window, if it's not already showing; it should be on the right side but I suppose could be elsewhere since you can move the program's popup windows around. In that window click Add New Layer. Now paste in your name or logo graphic that you want to use to protect your pics. Then in the Layers window, double-click your new layer where your logo graphic resides and slide the Opacity slider to the left which makes your graphic semi-see-thru ... slide it until you're happy with it. Then save this 'project' with whatever name you want; you're saving it this way so you have all of the original info and can go back and tweak if you ever want to. Then when you have it perfect and you're ready to save it as a JPG or PNG, put your cursor on the new layer that has your logo and click the Merge Layer Down button; this makes your 2-layer picture a single layer graphic that can be saved as JPG, PNG, etc. ... and somebody would have a damn hard time trying to remove your name / logo from it.

Done.

Good luck. Ask questions if you run into a problem.

* Last updated by: extrapolator on 1/14/2021 @ 7:18 PM *

It's not being hacked.These are people with registered e-mails.It's just the Admin isn't taking these off or blocking the domains or something.

'BY' has been here forever lol.

* Last updated by: Grn14 on 1/14/2021 @ 10:57 PM *

BG? Hasn't? Yeah, I see him every now and then on FB but not here. I'm glad he's keeping the place running for us though.