Re^3: Who gave (and continues to give) Tye his authority for his autocratic domination of PerlMonks?

[Arunbear]

Recently, I had an issue with my login no longer working. The reason turned out to be that the password had been truncated to 8 characters in the database (so the password I originally chose no longer worked).

I don't know whether your problem is the same, but perhaps you can try logging in again using the first 8 characters of your original password.

[Buk]

No. My password was not longer than 8 chars -- ie, it was exactly 8 chars -- and if that was the reason, given that I've have continued with the same password ever since the PM passwords were reset after the DB was hacked(*); it would be one almighty coincidence.

And I do not believe in coincidence.

(*) A vulnerability that has never been corrected because tye decided, concluded, entirely unilaterally, that "It was too difficult to correct"; so your userid; and mine; and every other monks password and id are completely vulnerable to trivial attack, because one, demigodic, autocratic; lazy-assed God-head decide it should be so.

[Corion]

I take objection to your baseless accusations against tye. The storage of plaintext passwords has not been changed due to tye "concluding entirely unilaterally". It is my decision, and while there is code waiting for activation, I have not completed the set of changes necessary.

But then, as your rhetoric is mostly aiming towards personal accusations, I don't see why mere facts should cloud your opinion. Please come back when you've calmed down.

[Argel]

So you are saying that no one has had time to fix the problem over the past several years??? Ever consider handing the reins over to members that do have the time to be active leaders? It seems like the majority of the gods are so busy elsewhere, that most of you should step down and let others take over running the site. If you are worried about the direction of the site, then set up a mostly hands-off oversight committee. Or create a new group (demigods?) with pretty much the same privileges as the gods, and let them take on the majority of leadership responsibility. I will nominate tye and jdporter for demigods (tye can stay as a god as well, the idea would be that the active leadership are in demigods).

[Buk]

Please come back when you've calmed down.

I was prefectly calm throughout thanks. Irritated, but perfectly calm.

Sometimes the only way to get information about what's inside an opaque closed box, is to shake it and see what rattles.