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Anatoly

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Can't lock my own topics.

drunkbnu

Formerly HG

Joined: 2017-08-16

Posts: 2,306

Re: Can't lock my own topics.

I made a topic and closed it. Seems to be only happening to you.

Anatoly

Guest

Re: Can't lock my own topics.

I made a topic and closed it.

I have seen it.

Seems to be only happening to you.

Anatoly

Guest

Re: Can't lock my own topics.

What about this error? When I had the attribute close, it was nil, and i set this attribute to true.

drunkbnu

Formerly HG

Joined: 2017-08-16

Posts: 2,306

Re: Can't lock my own topics.

Try going to

https://forums.everybodyedits.com/moderate.php?close=<topic-id>

to close your topics.
Then to

https://forums.everybodyedits.com/moderate.php?open=<topic-id>

to open them.

If it gives you a bad request, it most likely means that you don't have access to the feature, most likely meaning that your ability to close/open topics has been removed.

hummerz5

Member

From: wait I'm not a secret mod huh

Joined: 2015-08-10

Posts: 5,854

Re: Can't lock my own topics.

Are you using a VPN or proxy of some sort? The redirect seems fishy.

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Different55

Forum Admin

Joined: 2015-02-07

Posts: 16,575

Re: Can't lock my own topics.

it was nil

It shouldn't have been. What topic were you trying to close?

And you can't just edit the URL like that or else you'll get that HTTP_REFERER error. The forums only allow closing/opening topics if you're coming from viewtopic.php. You can't just type them in the address bar, otherwise it'd be possible for someone to put a link in their signature or something and get a mod to accidentally lock a topic when they clicked it. You MUST use the links on the forum.

If it gives you a bad request, it most likely means that you don't have access to the feature, most likely meaning that your ability to close/open topics has been removed.

Nobody is allowed to just put in URLs to close topics. If you get an error doing that, that's intended behavior.

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hummerz5

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From: wait I'm not a secret mod huh

Joined: 2015-08-10

Posts: 5,854

Re: Can't lock my own topics.

So there's no other way to get that link? There's no viewpost.php or something wacky like that? Cuz' I thought there was, then searched, and found nothing.

But diff what purpose does HTTP_REFERRER do for you? Is that some way to prevent l33t hax0rs from tricking me to click a link, stealing my cookies, and locking posts on my behalf? Surely n ot

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Different55

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Joined: 2015-02-07

Posts: 16,575

Re: Can't lock my own topics.

Alright should be fixed now

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Different55

Forum Admin

Joined: 2015-02-07

Posts: 16,575

Re: Can't lock my own topics.

So there's no other way to get that link? There's no viewpost.php or something wacky like that? Cuz' I thought there was, then searched, and found nothing.

But diff what purpose does HTTP_REFERRER do for you? Is that some way to prevent l33t hax0rs from tricking me to click a link, stealing my cookies, and locking posts on my behalf? Surely n ot

No, it just prevents people from posting a close topic link on some other website.

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hummerz5

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From: wait I'm not a secret mod huh

Joined: 2015-08-10

Posts: 5,854

Re: Can't lock my own topics.

^I'm having trouble finding the malicious possibilities... the user would get a "You just locked your topic" message, right? Then the user would be "oh gee let's unlock it"

Alright. neato.

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