Free Account for animeforum.com

This message is to be read by anybody who's a guest, but doesn't have an account yet.

If you wanna view the blog, or other areas of this site that only members can view, you can use the below login. I created a new account for the express intent that it would be publicly available.
Username: AnyoneCanUseThis
Password: publicpassword

However PLEASE ONLY USE IT FOR VIEWING. If you use it for posting, an admin will ban the account very quickly, especially if it gets used for posting stuff that breaks the forum rules.

I have a feeling this thread will end up deleted by an admin who doesn't want to support public accounts, so that's why I've also posted the login info for this public account to bugmenot.com. The below link is to the bugmenot.com page for www.animeforum.com.
http://www.bugmenot.com/view/animeforum.com
The login you want is the topmost one. Please bookmark this link so you can get back to the correct bugmenot.com page if the admins delete this post from here.
Alternatively, copy the username and password from here and paste it in notepad and save it as a text file.

Well, what's the point of having a public account if you can only view on it? This is a good idea though, I've seen other forums with accounts that anyone can use for posting, though I feel it's risky seeing as how there is the possibilities of trolls.

ib4peopletrashthisjustbecauseofVG555

But isn't it possible to create a public account that can't post at all? Nor go to settings or whatever?

Or... Newcomers can just check things out as a guest; and/or they can create an account of their own for the small purpose, forget about it for a few years, and then remember it and come back like many have before.

Thus your account isn't needed.

Well... yeah, making an account isn't really much work right?

Like the idea, tho No.. Just no i can see this going all wrong.

Well other than pointing out that it's silly and moronic, I don't know how to handle the situation of a public account. So I'll call for assistance on the subject. @Kaitou Ace

I temp banned the account until we decide what to do with it.


Can't you view the IP of who's been accessing your account somewhere, at least posts? May be a security liability.

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Originally Posted by Eris

I temp banned the account until we decide what to do with it.


Can't you view the IP of who's been accessing your account somewhere, at least posts? May be a security liability.

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Ah, fair enough. Let me know what y'all decide to do with it. -For future reference.-

Well the solution and simple and natural. I logged into the account and changed the email and password. I imagine it would've happened naturally within the hour of its first use anyway, so I just sped that up a bit.

And I don't really see a point to it, because af isn't setup to be visible to logged in users only, you can read every normal thread and blog without being logged in.

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Originally Posted by Kaitou Ace

And I don't really see a point to it, because af isn't setup to be visible to logged in users only, you can read every normal thread and blog without being logged in.

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Actually, when I'm logged out, I can't see the blogs. I get this error when trying to view the blogs as merely a "guest" to the forum.
"You are not logged in or you do not have permission to access this page."

The public account I made was pretty much intended as a way to bypass your blocking of the blogs to non-members, so that even non-members could log-in and view the blogs, even if they didn't want to create their own account.

Aside from Blogs, I don't see the point of this. Also, the Serious forum should be open to anyone really--it's not hard to get 10k gil.

Also this forum doesn't hide links or protect forums (aside from SF).

Well if blogs are members only, then they are members only. I may consider changing that, but a bypass in the form of a public use account isn't going to fly. It'll just end up being banned in relatively short order, if whoever first logs into it doesn't just change the pass/email the way I did.

So please don't do that.