posting forum record

Can somebody tell me If a record exists of when one posts on a discussion board? To be more specific, is there a date and time and where the post originated from? thank you

Do you mean here or discussion boards in general? On this forum there's date of the post in it's left upper corner (yours shows 'Today, 11:21 PM' for me).

Yes, vBulletin tracks timestamps and stores IP addresses of everybody who posts, as does phpBB. wtcBB does also and I'm assuming that most forums would.

cs-cam thanks for that input. I understand what you are saying. what I want to know even more specifically is the exact post. Not that I logged in 15 minutes earlier. Do you understand? It is very important to me to isolate the exact time of one particulat post. Do you understand? And in another question. How would I get that information off a particular forums record? If I read you correctly, the exact time and date will be recorded. yes?

Don't piss off the root, then. You might just wake up confused and in Mexico.

Originally Posted by stationstation cs-cam thanks for that input. I understand what you are saying. what I want to know even more specifically is the exact post. Not that I logged in 15 minutes earlier. Do you understand? It is very important to me to isolate the exact time of one particulat post. Do you understand? And in another question. How would I get that information off a particular forums record? If I read you correctly, the exact time and date will be recorded. yes?

If you just tell us what you're trying to do exactly then we'll be able to help better. Do you run a forum in which someone has posted some crap and you want to trace them or something? If so, tell us what forum software you're using and we'll be able to tell you where abouts in the database you'lll be able to find the info.

O.K. No, I had the forum administator post some crap on me and now I'm in hot water. My response to him was brutal and I am now banned!!! You are talking software and that is a foreign language to me. Tell me how to track down this software and I will forward. Thanks

Then there is really nothing you can do, if your questionn is whether or not he can see when you posted and the IP the post originated from then the answer is yes. You could try emailing him and pleading your case but that's the way things go. It isn't your site and if you piss the owner off sufficiently that you get banned, there isn't a thing you can do about it.

Nope. that's not the answer I was looking for. Let me be more specific. The aministrator posted a post in my handle. Made it appear that I posted. I responded that he was full of it and he called me pyschotic or something to that nature.. After that I won't say what I said.

My question is can he manipulate where that post came from. Or is it a matter of fact that if he posted from his computer that the record will show that? Thanks again

If he is the forum admin, you will never have access to those informations, but only he will (as logs and stuff). If he indeed did what you said he did, I would just let it go. A forum with such an attitude is not even worth pinging it.

Just forget that forum ever existed, download a Linux LiveCD and join us over here: You not only get to dump a crappy forum, but also will install an awesome OS

Thanks Mega Man. Not the answer I was hoping for.Never intended to even try to go back to that god foresaken forum. Just think it's not right to impersonate and then provoke someone into a banning. Had a couple of good poster friends over there who now think I'm nuts to even suggest some-one could be that diabolical. If anybody else can come up with an idea to nail that unscrupolous admin, let me know.

p.s. will check into downloading that cd. thanks again

Well, if you are in America, you are lucky. You could sue him . There should be witness that saw your original post and saw when it changed, so that is good for you. Hacking the forums in order to get revenge is a really bad idea and it could turn everything against you.

Seriously, if you feel violated and you both are in the same country, you have the right to do something against him... and personally, I think you should. It could go as far as closing his forum and if it was a profitable forum maybe you could score a few $ .

However, if you are in different countries, things could get a little more complicated, since the law, you know, is a lot different from one place to another. Even from one State to another. Still, as I suggested, if you feel violated, look up what rights you have.

This is a shot in the dark, but maybe you can find something interesting with google too: I've closed a few crappy homepages I had on geocities and angelfire before, but google seems to have, somehow, those pages "cached", meaning that they are still accessible, somehow. I'm not really familiar how it works, but maybe you could try hunting down your original post on google, save it and use it later against him.

Again, you won't be able to check info from that forum if he changed it. Google could help... or you could just forget about it...

Mega Man, I think your more diabolical than he is!! Just kidding. I'll look into some of what you said. Yea Man. This is personal. He crossed the fricken line with me. Don't go passing yourself off as someone your not. This guy makes me sick.

One last question. He didn't change my post. He posted as me. Now as an admin. can he change where that post originated on his software? If he can't then I may have an option of one of my poster friends asking for a printout around the time of the post. If not, I guess I'm screwed.

Thanks again

p.s. I am located in the U.S. and so is he!!!

ghehehe, yeah, I've heard it once or twice before . Oh, if he posted that, then definitely it will be coming from his IP and it will be easy to catch. Start checking for the location of the server. Once found, it should not be hard to track him down. Still, don't hack anything. Go to the authorities, tell your story, show the server location and open a case, seriously. You should not contact his ISP, let the competent authorities to take care of that.

What he did is just as bad as using a fake ID. It's a crime and you feel hurt and humiliated (even if you didn't, now you do ok ). I say, go for it buddy, sue his arse off.

Side Note: I'm no lawyer and I know nothing about how things work in the US, so there's a good chance that I'm just talking Poodo. But hey, you are free to sue anyone for anything. To win, it's a different story. I really think you've to right to do something. However, depending how bad you've answered him, it could be problems for you too. Next time, you know: when you feel violated, don't write a word back. Simply save the post and take an action.

Side Note 2: This is what I would do in your case. I take no responsabilities if this is a bad idea or not. Think about this as a GNU advice . I'm not recommending you to do this, but I would do that if it was me in there

can he change where that post originated on his software

Yes unfortunately. He could edit the database, his server logs, everything. Chance are he won't think of that but it's possible to do. The only thing he couldn't edit was the logs his ISP would keep, you won't be able to get access to those but if you took it further the authorities would.