I hired a freelancer and this person went ballistic (in a good way) and posted over 1000 questions using one user name. I believe this may have triggered some spam control settings. We were able to restore the site using back up.

  • How do we go about the changing so that we can change the limits on number of questions per user.
  • Inorder to fix the error we reverted back to the problem date

The site is 4sales.org. Home page gives this error but the inside pages can still be seen !!

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asked 12 Sep '11, 09:28

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edited 13 Sep '11, 16:55

@nojer, all meta.osqa.net postings are required to have a clear, specific question in their title field. Please correct the title of this posting right away. Thanks.

However, please post your stack-trace (error massage) using a link to pastebin.com. Did that freelancer make changes into the source of the core?

(12 Sep '11, 11:23) Jordan ♦♦

@jordan can you pl let me know what the issue might be !!

(13 Sep '11, 16:58) nojer

FYI . questions by this user are still in the database and can still be seen .

(13 Sep '11, 17:29) nojer

The problem is that a tag called "a/c" exists into the database, it's written in the stack-trace ;)

NoReverseMatch: Reverse for 'tag_questions' with arguments '(u'a/c',)' and keyword arguments '{}' not found.

http://4sales.org/tags/?q=a/c http://4sales.org/tags/

Check the two links I've provided and you'll see. The slash character is forbidden by OSQA, so this tag should NOT exist into the database, that's why here we are speaking about changes made by the freelancer you've hired.

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answered 13 Sep '11, 18:17

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@jordan thanks for taking an interest in this :

this is the last question that shows up without error http://4sales.org/question/2283/best-deal-for-museum-of-lake-minnetonka-minneapolis

we changed tag name to 'ac' in the database with this sql command update tag set name='ac' where id='2020'; but the problem still there

Look forward to your feedback

Thanks

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answered 15 Sep '11, 10:32

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we fixed it thanks @jordan !!

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answered 15 Sep '11, 12:33

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