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Re^2: Turning a questionable string into a number
by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Jun 30, 2017 at 02:30 UTC
    Obviously, the value has been interpreted as “a text field” ...

    Obviously, the value is hexadecimal!


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Re^2: Turning a questionable string into a number
by karlgoethebier (Abbot) on Jul 02, 2017 at 10:00 UTC
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      the account should be locked out. plain and simple.
        the account should be locked out. plain and simple.

        No.

        Creating a new account takes just a few seconds, so that won't help. Quite the opposite. We would spend a lot of time to lock out sock puppet accounts.

        I prefer to have it the way it is. The monasty has a few local idiots, and their accounts are well known. A few monks still feed those trolls, and newbies are usually warned quite fast this way.

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