Re: *Flying tackle glomps Laburnum*

Ladies and Gentlemens, we has a troll~ by JulyFlame on 2008-10-26 15:30:00 UTC Reply

Who is obviously targeting Laburnum by this point.

*blinks* Did I miss something while at school? (nm) by Oozaru Angel on 2008-10-27 14:38:00 UTC Reply

Re: *blinks* Did I miss something while at school? by Ansela on 2008-10-27 19:41:00 UTC Reply

Laburnum asked for help with a nasty troll, she sorted it and then the Board got spammed again with Laburnum as the target. Someone's just a very sore and sad loser.

I knew about the first bit. by Oozaru Angel on 2008-10-28 02:49:00 UTC Reply

But I suppose Dann must have dealt with the Board being spammed by the time I checked in again.
Or it was a coincidence. by Laburnum on 2008-10-27 23:42:00 UTC Reply

Spambot might have just picked up a username off the board and got me.

Seems to be gone now. Good. by Laburnum (real one) on 2008-10-26 22:16:00 UTC Reply

Yay Techno-Dann!
More ypurs! by Tomato on 2008-10-26 16:45:00 UTC Reply

hugs nearest ypur At least we were already hanging out here.
Oh God, I'm getting tired of this. by Laburnum (the real one) on 2008-10-26 15:57:00 UTC Reply

Look, I'm sorry if I accidentally provoked anything. I didn't mean to do anything wrong if I did.

They're all coming from the same IP as far as I can see. Can we block it somehow?

*hugs* Don't worry, dear. We still love you. by Sedri on 2008-10-26 22:14:00 UTC Reply

And don't go avoiding the Board over something like this, 'kay?

Okay. by Laburnum on 2008-10-26 22:22:00 UTC Reply

I just don't want to cause a war with 4channers - we didn't do anything, but you know what they're like.

*Flying tackle glomps Laburnum* by Artic Blade on 2008-10-28 16:18:00 UTC Reply

It's ok, it'll all work out. Who / what is 4channers anyway?

Re: *Flying tackle glomps Laburnum* by Ansela on 2008-10-28 18:47:00 UTC Reply

People who frequent the 4chan bulletin board. It's a popular location for trolls and jerks, but not everyone there is like that. Every individual board is indicated by one or two letters with a slash either side.

If you value your sanity stay away from /a/. Sunday 5pm Japan time (+9 GMT) is when /m/ should also be avoided, due to a flood of Gundam 00 posts. In fact, /m/ should be avoided for a good 24 hours after a new episode of that particular show airs, due to volume of posts on that topic.

I tried to check it ... by Laburnum on 2008-10-26 16:13:00 UTC Reply

... but the site I reverse-DNSed it on doesn't have anything other than the information that it's coming from the US. Can someone with more tech know-how than me fix it?

I won't go nuts again, don't worry. It's an automated bot this time, there'd be no point. Sorry about when I did. I was just angry.

Probably. by JulyFlame on 2008-10-26 16:17:00 UTC Reply

Not too good with this stuff myself, however, so can't.

And yea, just taking and dealing with it is the better choice rather than getting flustered and upset.

I think it's a proxy IP. Can someone else hack those? by Laburnum on 2008-10-26 16:26:00 UTC Reply

I am kind of worried by those articles that got linked. I don't want that kind of thing happening if I can avoid it. The kind of behaviour described in the articles is highly illegal, but it's not possible to arrest hundreds of people at a time, and I can't exactly totally avoid the internet forever.

Maybe I should avoid the PPC board for a while?

Bah. by JulyFlame on 2008-10-26 16:36:00 UTC Reply

Doubt that will happen. In all likelihood it's just one person with a grudge.

And I'd say don't bother to avoid the Board.

'Kay. Thanks for being so understanding. by Laburnum on 2008-10-26 16:43:00 UTC Reply

If I get directly harassed again I am going to involve the police.

No problem. by JulyFlame on 2008-10-26 16:46:00 UTC Reply

Though, an IM thing or whatever'd be keen, since constantly checking the board is tedious. grin

I checked Whois.net and got results ... by Laburnum on 2008-10-26 16:51:00 UTC Reply

I'm currently in the process of emailing their abuse function, so that should sort it out on their end. The contact is abuseATfdcserversDOTnet (insert punctuation as necessary - no need to attract spambots to them).

Hopefully. by JulyFlame on 2008-10-26 16:53:00 UTC Reply

Since, y'know, it's a Sunday and all.

Hey, at least we're doing something. by Laburnum on 2008-10-26 16:57:00 UTC Reply

We can email them again if necessary. It's probably best if multiple people contact them, that'll get the problem through quicker.

Yeah. by JulyFlame on 2008-10-26 17:01:00 UTC Reply

Unlike FF.net, IPs tend to get their act together fairly quickly to work at problems, since, y'know, legalities and all that.