The Scholars Online Database overflowed today, the result of spam user attacks and registrations on the blog. We’ve spent the day upgrading the Word Press release, installing CAPCHA requirements for registration, and reviewing tens of thousands of spam registrations. An unhealthy number of these showed evidence of being database access attempts. Because we take the security of our members very seriously, we did a thorough cleanup of the database and eliminated over a hundred thousand apparently bogus records..
If you had a blog account prior to today, and have ever created a post, or commented on a post, your account is safe. If your blog account had an email that was on our Scholars Online contact list or members list, your independent blog account should still exist.
If you were otherwise quietly registered, you may need to reregister to receive notices about new blog updates. We’re sorry for the inconvenience, but we hope you understand that student safety comes first.