Daid:

And the forum breaks too :X

Daid:

I wonder, could you forge a whole post below your own...

Best. Plan. Ever. 

bstorer:

Daid:

And the forum breaks too :X

Haven't we already established that this forum sucks donkey nuts?

Yes, including the ability to write fake posts. But it never gets boring!

After reading the rest of the thread... yes, yes you can forge posts. Me and somebody else used to do it, though I forget the thread now. :)

Daid:

I wonder, could you forge a whole post below your own...

Some of the styles are a bit tricky to get right, though, but at first glance it can be quite convincing.

I agree with whatever Quietust just posted above.

Quietust:

meet Signature Guy!

Even screws up the reply page. 

Quietust:

meet Signature Guy!

Nice work!

Plz to email me teh codez, and so forth.

A further thought occurs... would it be possible to add a fake forum post as a tag? Or would that just break everything? 

 I couldn't book my tour for $0.01 because I denied a cookie (it was oatmeal, I hate oatmeal) so they assumed I didn't have javascript enabled.

medialint:

 I couldn't book my tour for $0.01 because I denied a cookie (it was oatmeal, I hate oatmeal) so they assumed I didn't have javascript enabled.

rc_pinchey:

A further thought occurs... would it be possible to add a fake forum post as a tag? Or would that just break everything? 

There's not enough room in the tag entry box for more than about half the markup you need, and I don't feel like synthesizing a HTML POST at the moment. The Real WTF^TM comes if you do "view source" on a thread: it looks like every tag ever entered has found its way into the page source, so that this page is approaching a quarter-megabyte in size.

Holy god...  Do you realize community server outputs all the tags in a hidden input field on every page?  It's something like 7000 tags right now... 

morbiuswilters:

Holy god...  Do you realize community server outputs all the tags in a hidden input field on every page?  It's something like 7000 tags right now... 

bstorer:

Then it's our destiny to bring this thing to its knees.

A few weeks ago I was trying to debug the tag autocomplete so I could submit a bug fix to the CS devs, or at least point them in the right direction.  However, I couldn't get any of the AJAX requests for the tags to show up.  I figured I was just too tired and gave up pretty quickly, but it was becuase there are no AJAX requests.  TDWTF uses the worst forum software in this history of forums.

Hmm... it seems there's a limit to how many tags you can put in.  I tried about 500k worth but it caused the server to barf :-( 

morbiuswilters:

Hmm... it seems there's a limit to how many tags you can put in.  I tried about 500k worth but it caused the server to barf :-( 

morbiuswilters:

Hmm... it seems there's a limit to how many tags you can put in.  I tried about 500k worth but it caused the server to barf :-( 

morbiuswilters:

Hmm... it seems there's a limit to how many tags you can put in.  I tried about 500k worth but it caused the server to barf :-( 

morbiuswilters:

Hmm... it seems there's a limit to how many tags you can put in.  I tried about 500k worth but it caused the server to barf :-( 

morbiuswilters:

Hmm... it seems there's a limit to how many tags you can put in.  I tried about 500k worth but it caused the server to barf :-( 

bstorer:

Repeated posts

bstorer:

Hmmm, it craps out, but still posts it, just without tags... interesting.

Below is a GM script that auto-populates the tags box with a TaxException with a random address.  Every post will create a new tag without any work from you.  I'm already noticing a bit of slowdown, too.

var elm = document.getElementById("ctl00_ctl00_bcr_bcr_PostForm_ctl04_TagsSubForm_ctl00_Tags");

if (elm) {
        elm.value = "TagException in 0x" + rand_addr() + ", ";
}

function rand_addr() {
        var a = "";

        for (var i = 0; i < 8; i++) {
                a += Math.floor(Math.random() * 16).toString(16);
        }

        return a;
}

morbiuswilters:

Holy god...  Do you realize community server outputs all the tags in a hidden input field on every page?  It's something like 7000 tags right now... 

There's about 150 KB of tags (154039 bytes to be exact) right now. ... (looks a bit closer) WTF?!?!?! It's a list containing TWO COPIES of every tag, one simply escaped, and one with special characters converted into HTML entities and then escaped. Then each copy of each tag is separated from its neighbors with "&"

Thus, if we want to generate space-consuming tags, we should use the symbol · heavily, since it is miniscule on-screen and SHOULD expand to %b7 in one tag copy, and · in the other. Testing this theory right now...

morbiuswilters:

Below is a GM script that auto-populates the tags box with a TaxException with a random address.  Every post will create a new tag without any work from you.  I'm already noticing a bit of slowdown, too.

bstorer:

Fun!  I'm tempted to use GM_set_value to keep track of the last one used and increment it every time.  Just to make sure I never overlap...

LOL, I wonder how long until CS starts to collapse..

What I meant to say was: "Testing the scalability of this particular forum software is critical to furthering my understanding of successful software engineering and should not be seen as a bannable offense by moderators who were once young and curious themselves!"

morbiuswilters:

 

What I meant to say was: "Testing the scalability of this particular forum software is critical to furthering my understanding of successful software engineering and should not be seen as a bannable offense by moderators who were once young and curious themselves!"

bstorer:

It's cool.  Just a couple days ago Alex stole a bunch of SSNs from some criminals in Oklahoma.

Yeah I don't know about the rest of you, but if I 'stumbled' across that data, I would have had a little fun with that.

Hmmm SSN's? How about we buy a house right next to a school and across from a church for Mr. Pedophile?

bstorer:

It's cool.  Just a couple days ago Alex stole a bunch of SSNs from some criminals in Oklahoma.

True.  I would have been tempted to sign them up for all sorts of junk mail if I were in his position.  You know, stuff like catalogs from stores that sell children's clothing, toys, candy, etc..

MasterPlanSoftware:

Yeah I don't know about the rest of you, but if I 'stumbled' across that data, I would have had a little fun with that.

 

Hmmm SSN's? How about we buy a house right next to a school and across from a church for Mr. Pedophile?

I defer to your superior skills.

so.. how much would that bother?

morbiuswilters:

Holy god...  Do you realize community server outputs all the tags in a hidden input field on every page?  It's something like 7000 tags right now... 

No, it's more like 3500 tags, but for some reason there's 2 copies of each one. It takes up over 150 KB, and the list elements are &-delimited. The first copy of an element has odd characters escaped, and the second copy has them expanded to HTML entities and then escaped. Example: The tag " (one double-quote char) would result in %22&%26quot;%3b appearing in the tag list.

So if we want to overload the system, we should use characters like · which expands to %b7 and ·. Testing this out here...

Tried a batch of 1-100 middots, that craps out with this:



Trying less of them...

 Tag testing...

Did it... Middot tags FTW!

Hmm, it maxes out at 42 middots... 

morbiuswilters:

Holy god...  Do you realize community server outputs all the tags in a hidden input field on every page?

morbiuswilters:

Below is a GM script that auto-populates the tags box with a TaxException with a random address.

morbiuswilters:

Below is a GM script that auto-populates the tags box with a TaxException with a random address.

// --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// TheDailyWTF.com : Generates a random "TagException" tag for new forum posts
// --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

function rand_addr()
{
    var a = "";

    for (var i = 0; i < 8; i++)
    {
        a += Math.floor(Math.random() * 16).toString(16);
    }

    return a;
}

function generateTags()
{
    var elm = document.getElementById("ctl00_ctl00_bcr_bcr_PostForm_ctl04_TagsSubForm_ctl00_Tags");

    if (elm)
    {
        elm.value = "throw new TagException(), TagException in 0x" + rand_addr();
    }
}


// --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// ONLY TRIGGER ON THE ADDPOST PAGE
// --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
if (location.href.indexOf('forums.thedailywtf.com/forums/AddPost.aspx') != -1)
{
    document.addEventListener(
        'load',
        function (e)
        {
            if( !document.body ) { return; }
            generateTags();
        },
        false
    );
}

AbbydonKrafts:

Here's my Opera user script:

Bless you, sir, for spreading the tag virus!

AbbydonKrafts:

Here's my Opera user script:

Here's a quick-and-dirty GM for getting a count of all "TagException in 0x" tags, their bytes and the totals bytes.  The summary is displayed in a div at the top of the page over the main logo.

var all_tags = document.getElementById("ctl00_ctl00_bcr_bcr_ctl00_PostList_ctl03_ctl23_ctl00_AllTags");
var tagex_count = 0;
var tagex_bytes = 0;
var curr_idx = 0;
var end_idx = 0;

if (all_tags) {
    all_tags = all_tags.value;

    while (curr_idx != -1) {
        curr_idx = all_tags.indexOf("TagException+in+0x", curr_idx);

        if (curr_idx != -1) {
            end_idx = all_tags.indexOf("&", curr_idx);
            tagex_count++;
            tagex_bytes += (end_idx - curr_idx);
            curr_idx++;
        }
    }

    var report_elm = document.createElement("div");
    document.body.appendChild(report_elm);
    report_elm.innerHTML = "TagExceptions: " + tagex_count + "
TagEx Bytes: " + tagex_bytes + "
All Tags Bytes: " + all_tags.length;
    report_elm.style.position = "absolute";
    report_elm.style.top = "15px";
    report_elm.style.left = "25px";
    report_elm.style.background = "#FFCC33";
    report_elm.style.border = "1px solid #000000";
    report_elm.style.padding = "6px";
}

Crap, there's a bug.. the "AllTags" id changes based on thread..  I'll take a look after lunch.. 

Amended code: 

var all_tags = document.getElementsByTagName("input");
var tagex_count = 0;
var tagex_bytes = 0;
var curr_idx = 0;
var end_idx = 0;

for (var i = 0; i < all_tags.length; i++) {
    if (all_tags[i].id.indexOf("AllTags") != -1) {
        all_tags = all_tags[i].value;
        
        while (curr_idx != -1) {
            curr_idx = all_tags.indexOf("TagException+in+0x", curr_idx);

            if (curr_idx != -1) {
                end_idx = all_tags.indexOf("&", curr_idx);
                tagex_count++;
                tagex_bytes += (end_idx - curr_idx);
                curr_idx++;
            }
        }

        var report_elm = document.createElement("div");
        document.body.appendChild(report_elm);
        report_elm.innerHTML = "TagExceptions: " + tagex_count + "
TagEx Bytes: " + tagex_bytes + "
All Tags Bytes: " + all_tags.length;
        report_elm.style.position = "absolute";
        report_elm.style.top = "15px";
        report_elm.style.left = "25px";
        report_elm.style.background = "#FFCC33";
        report_elm.style.border = "1px solid #000000";
        report_elm.style.padding = "6px";
    }
}

Interesting... AllTags (now 175 KB) is only served up when you're logged in.

morbiuswilters: I haven't looked into it very extensively at all, but it might just be from people making new tags between your pageviews. So far, I've only seen AlllTags get longer, though it'd me nice to do a diff.

For examining AllTags, I copy-paste the whole mess into GVIM, :s/&/\r/g at prompt 1 and Jam It! That Vim command just replaces all "&" with a line break, separating tags into one per line so diff (or is the correct term "Diffler Search"?) can do something meaningful with it.

morbiuswilters:

Amended code:

// --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// TheDailyWTF.com : Generates a random "TagException" tag for new forum posts
// --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

function rand_addr()
{
    var a = "";

    for (var i = 0; i < 8; i++)
    {
        a += Math.floor(Math.random() * 16).toString(16);
    }

    return a;
}

function generateTags()
{
    var elm = document.getElementById("ctl00_ctl00_bcr_bcr_PostForm_ctl04_TagsSubForm_ctl00_Tags");

    if (elm)
    {
        elm.value = "throw new TagException(), TagException in 0x" + rand_addr();
    }
}

function countTagExceptions()
{
    var all_tags = document.getElementsByTagName("input");
    var tagex_count = 0;
    var tagex_bytes = 0;
    var curr_idx = 0;
    var end_idx = 0;

    for (var i = 0; i < all_tags.length; i++)
    {
        if (all_tags[i].id.indexOf("AllTags") != -1)
        {
            all_tags = all_tags[i].value;
            
            while (curr_idx != -1)
            {
                curr_idx = all_tags.indexOf("TagException+in+0x", curr_idx);

                if (curr_idx != -1)
                {
                    end_idx = all_tags.indexOf("&", curr_idx);
                    tagex_count++;
                    tagex_bytes += (end_idx - curr_idx);
                    curr_idx++;
                }
            }

            var report_elm = document.createElement("div");
            document.body.appendChild(report_elm);
            report_elm.innerHTML = "TagExceptions: " + tagex_count + 
                ", Bytes: " + tagex_bytes + 
                ", All Tags Bytes: " + all_tags.length;
            report_elm.style.position = "absolute";
            report_elm.style.top = "127px";
            report_elm.style.left = "300px";
            // report_elm.style.background = "#ECECEC";
            // report_elm.style.border = "1px solid #000000";
            report_elm.style.padding = "6px";
            report_elm.style.fontWeight = "bold";
            break;
        }
    }
}

// --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// ONLY TRIGGER ON FORUM PAGES
// --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
if (location.href.indexOf('forums.thedailywtf.com/forums/') != -1)
{
    document.addEventListener(
        'load',
        function (e)
        {
            if( !document.body ) { return; }
            countTagExceptions();
            generateTags();
        },
        false
    );
}

AbbydonKrafts:

And here's my complete Opera script.

function generateTags()
{
    var elm = document.getElementById("ctl00_ctl00_bcr_bcr_PostForm_ctl04_TagsSubForm_ctl00_Tags");

    if (elm)
    {
        if (elm.value.length == 0)
        {
            elm.value = "throw new TagException(), TagException in 0x" + rand_addr();
        }
    }
}

Carnildo:

It's pretty simple: duplicate the HTML that produces a post, then re-order it so you've got the last half of one post, followed by the first half of the next post.

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