MODERATOR ATTENTION: How to get help when you need it

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Trollish-looking (to me) thread that has not been removed yet.

Just to update the apparently compromised user account situation - there is an admin option previously invisible to me: the author of a post can be changed by admin. That's all there is to it. No password/account hijacking required.

Once that's done it becomes indistinguishable from a post actually from the member.

For example: when a bunch of (usually off-topic) posts are moved to their own thread, created by a moderator - who therefore appears to be the OP.
Having this option available can correct that.

https://wrongplanet.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=406797&start=528#p9316694:

I think this, earlier, answers at least a part of that:
viewtopic.php?t=406797&start=560#p9317256

We know the nature of the intrusion - it's been uncovered and eradicated, and we don't expect anything of a similar nature to happen again.

Once everything has been cleaned up I'll post a notice to this forum saying so.
At the moment it seems normal operation is restored.

This person needs help learning to use the quote feature. Their post quotes (apparently by just copying and pasting) two different previous posts, by two different people, but does not say who they are quoting, nor is there any visually obvious indication of where the quotes begin and end.

viewtopic.php?t=412133&p=9318545#p9318545

I think this thread might be worth sticky status in the haven. Thank you

^ A support sticky on that topic, or trauma more generally, should be worthwhile but that particular thread doesn't appear to be it at the moment.
Perhaps one dealing more directly with supporting others?

^^ Thanks Mona - quoting corrected.

Here, the OP of the relevant thread has requested that an off-topic discussion beginning here be moved to a separate thread.

Thanks - I've posted a notice to the thread.

As you requested here, I just now sent you a PM listing the posts that I think should be moved to a separate thread, given the OP's complaint about the thread drifting off-topic. I think the off-topic conversation is an important one worth having in its own thread.

Thanks - I've responded by PM.

There is one more off-topic message here that should be moved, if possible, to the new thread that Cornflake created yesterday. Also, a better title for the new thread would be "Communication methods for non-speakers?" (with the question mark indicating that at least some of the methods are controversial).

Thanks - post moved and thread re-titled.