There have been more instances of this problem, seemingly beyond Admin’s earlier explanation, with no input from Admin as of yet on these new instances, captured with screenshots. Please see UEN’s earlier post for the situation, plus the new updates.
EDIT: Admin’s many locks and responses are reposted in comments below.
EDIT (by starrydesigns): Read about the latest incident here.
EDIT: (by Soap) - latest update here - click.
July 23rd, 2007 at 6:28 pm
Soap, it’s complicated. But basically, yes, unless I use a predetermined “voice.” The more I talk about it, the more likely I am to lose privileges permanently, which shows, I guess, how little I’m starting to care about that. But I should probably stop here for now. I had a super-rough day at work, and I don’t want that frustration to leak over any more than it has.
/REALLY end hijack
July 23rd, 2007 at 6:23 pm
You’re very kind. I have a, um, challenging approach to issues, no doubt. ;p But I do try to keep from making things personal. Etsy does not see my input the same way. So be it.
July 23rd, 2007 at 6:21 pm
You’re not allowed to discuss any perceived issue with Etsy?
/hijack
July 23rd, 2007 at 6:19 pm
Elizabeth that panic-mongering accusation against you is completely out of line. You are always so focused and professional when you bring up bugs and issues. I have seen people try to bait you and make personal attacks in your threads, and you keep your cool and keep your focus on the issues, not the personalities. You don’t hit below the belt and when you make a criticism it is against something etsy has DONE (or not done), not against the people themselves.
I wish etsy staff could be as unflappable and professional in the forums as users like you and facade.
July 23rd, 2007 at 6:17 pm
Yes. But I am limited in that about which I may post.
July 23rd, 2007 at 6:14 pm
The chat and treasuries are flash applications are may possible handle cookies and authentication differently than the rest of the site. One user had 2 treasuries made with her name, which she didn’t make. A user appearing to be logged into the wrong account may not be able to do actions like editing listings or sending convos, on the HTML portion of the site. (they can apparently read the other user’s convos, but probably/hopefully can’t send convos)
But possibly they *can* post as someone else in chat, or comment on a treasury or create a treasury as someone else. Chat may not authenticate each action by checking the cookie. These are all things that need to be tested.
Perhaps etsy is defining “security threat” differently than we do, when they say there is no security threat. Even IF someone can’t make any changes or do any actions with my account, (which hasn’t really been proven one way or the other) just the fact they can SEE stuff they shouldn’t see is enough reason to take action.
July 23rd, 2007 at 6:12 pm
Kate,
I thought I saw posts pre-dating the March one by sereneonion but I suppose I’m not as organized as Dyno. Maybe I’ll look for them later.
E,
Have you not regained your forum posting privileges?
July 23rd, 2007 at 6:09 pm
One of the many accusations leveled at me was panic-mongering - bringing important issues up (and keeping them in the spotlight) simply for the purpose of causing trouble.
Glad others are willing to “panic-monger” (i.e., hold accountable) without me. Careful, though.
July 23rd, 2007 at 5:44 pm
There were incidents even before the misocat one in March, which spurred Soap’s original post.
I remember several last year where at least two different users logged into Ramona’s account and posted about that on the forums.
I DO wish everyone had the foresight to take screenshots.
July 23rd, 2007 at 5:38 pm
GreenMamba,
I have no idea about recent chat confusion. I don’t really pay attention to chat bugs because I figured it didn’t affect me. I’ve gone into the rooms all of twice.