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Message 68867 - Posted: 14 Jan 2005, 18:10:06 UTC

Hello
I just bumped back threads which went back to about 24 hours ago.If I have missed any I am sorry.Glad the spammer has gone and now lets get back to enjoying the forum.

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Message 68873 - Posted: 14 Jan 2005, 18:13:30 UTC

I ought to plonk you for it.
2500 NEW THREADS CRATED???? ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR FUC|<ING MIND?!?!?!?!
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Message 68875 - Posted: 14 Jan 2005, 18:15:34 UTC - in response to Message 68873.  

> I ought to
> plonk you for it.

[i]2500 NEW THREADS CRATED???? ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR
> FUC|

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How dare you speak to me like that.You are a very rude person.All I have done was bump about 15 threads back after Mr Human rights posted on here solid for 3 hours.Get your facts right before insulting a normal user!!!!!!!!!
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Message 68876 - Posted: 14 Jan 2005, 18:18:37 UTC

I hope he will stay at [url=http://forum.grid.org/phpBB/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=38885 ]this place[/url]
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Message 68885 - Posted: 14 Jan 2005, 18:23:10 UTC - in response to Message 68875.  

He called you a "wench" and Lena a "slut" - What the hell were you thinking?! Bury him in posts? Great idea - but there are others who'd like to have a Caf&eacute; where the fucking shit no longer hits the fan BECAUSE ONE USER GETS FUCKING PISSED OFF!!!!!!!!!!!

I mean, seriously.... One bump in the existing threa ds like "Come in and have some coffee" I can understand - but adding that many empty threads is WORSE. That's something that Willy Wanker the Unwanted One would have done.

I'm gonna have that smoke now...
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Message 68918 - Posted: 14 Jan 2005, 18:26:20 UTC

I was simply bumping a few threads because I thought it was helping people on here.There is no need to swear at me.I thought I was helping people by bumping a few posts that had been pushed back pages and pages.Your language stinks.
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Message 68929 - Posted: 14 Jan 2005, 18:27:21 UTC

He called you a "wench" and Lena a "slut" - What the hell were you thinking?! Bury him in posts? Great idea - but there are others who'd like to have a Café where the fucking shit no longer hits the fan BECAUSE ONE USER GETS FUCKING PISSED OFF!!!!!!!!!!!



bury who in posts?


he had been deleted, so i then thought bumping the threads back was helping people out !!!!!!!!!!!1
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Message 68944 - Posted: 14 Jan 2005, 18:28:46 UTC - in response to Message 68867.  

> Hello
> I just bumped back threads which went back to about 24 hours ago.If I have
> missed any I am sorry.Glad the spammer has gone and now lets get back to
> enjoying the forum.
>
> Thanks
>
> Rachel.
>
Think again.


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Message 68956 - Posted: 14 Jan 2005, 18:29:40 UTC

With a little technical knowledge, it would be straightforward to write a piece of code to continually act like a user and post any message a whacko wished, to an online forum.

The posts are occuring evyer 5 seconds..

Some forum code has checks for time between postings...postings per hour...etc to try and reduce this problem somewhat...but the auto-posting code could just put delays between certain operations to overcome this.

As such, Rachel, HR (now "I will be back") may not even be reading the forum, and your postings, it may all be just a machine.
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Message 68957 - Posted: 14 Jan 2005, 18:29:40 UTC

I do not know what your problem is.This guy was spamming posts on here for 3 hours solid.He then was deleted.Posts were pushed pages back.I thought bumping them to the front page would be helping people and to get the forum running ok again.Simple as that......
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Message 68973 - Posted: 14 Jan 2005, 18:31:12 UTC - in response to Message 68929.  


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> he had been deleted, so i then thought bumping the threads back was helping
> people out !!!!!!!!!!!1
>

We just need to let Berkely handle him and we just go about doing what we always do..

But I think I will just go enjoy my coffee... Hell even my DVR-Tivo is screwed up today!!!

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Message 68993 - Posted: 14 Jan 2005, 18:33:15 UTC - in response to Message 68956.  

> With a little technical knowledge, it would be straightforward to write a
> piece of code to continually act like a user and post any message a whacko
> wished, to an online forum.
>
> The posts are occuring evyer 5 seconds..
>
> Some forum code has checks for time between postings...postings per hour...etc
> to try and reduce this problem somewhat...but the auto-posting code could just
> put delays between certain operations to overcome this.
>
> As such, Rachel, HR (now "I will be back") may not even be reading the forum,
> and your postings, it may all be just a machine.
>

Rachel is not a bad guy (gal). She is an innocent soul trying to help, but is playing into the evil ones game..

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I'd rather speak my mind because it hurts too much to bite my tongue.

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Message 69000 - Posted: 14 Jan 2005, 18:33:59 UTC - in response to Message 68973.  

I don't think I can deal with this anymore.

I'm sorry I chewed you out, Rachel, but this has to stop. Rom, Janus, et al., aren't getting paid enough to baby-sit the Café, and I consider this place to be one of the best communities the the Internet has ever had.

I'm outta here.
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Message 69001 - Posted: 14 Jan 2005, 18:34:13 UTC - in response to Message 68973.  

>
> >
> > he had been deleted, so i then thought bumping the threads back was
> helping
> > people out !!!!!!!!!!!1
> >
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> We just need to let Berkely handle him and we just go about doing what we
> always do..
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> But I think I will just go enjoy my coffee... Hell even my DVR-Tivo is
> screwed up today!!!
>
> Mystic Time: Fri 14 January 2005, 13:31 (Eastern Standard Time)
>
>
>
>

I understand but as I said I thought I was being helpful to people and there is no need for certain people to talk to me like that......It was rude and bad manners what that bloke said to me and I am offended to say the least.I meant no harm and genuinly thought I was being helpful.;-(
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Message 69004 - Posted: 14 Jan 2005, 18:35:42 UTC

I know it has to stop.Like I said, I bumped about 15 posts after that nutter was deleted.I thought he had gone and I thought bumping a few posts back to front page was being helpful.I did not know it would angry people.
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Message 69011 - Posted: 14 Jan 2005, 18:39:29 UTC - in response to Message 69004.  

> I know it has to stop.Like I said, I bumped about 15 posts after that nutter
> was deleted.I thought he had gone and I thought bumping a few posts back to
> front page was being helpful.I did not know it would angry people.

Rachel,
Your heart was in the right place. Folks are very angry now, but don't take it personally.
Aloha, Tom.
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Message 69014 - Posted: 14 Jan 2005, 18:40:35 UTC - in response to Message 69004.  
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All I saw were 50+ pages of new threads, all saying "This is a bump".
It's annyoing to have to sift through them all. Couldn't posting "bump" in a pre-existing thread have been slightly more effective?

I'm cool now... had time to calm down and all... but that many posts are now filling up Berkeley's slowest machine. It's bad enough that we've got... undesireable users, but to take it to that kind of extreme...

[sigh]

Tom got the gist of it...

I'm outta here...
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Message 69021 - Posted: 14 Jan 2005, 18:44:59 UTC

The reason people were posting new messages was because to get the spammers messages off the front page.We thought doing that was the right thing.He was posting a new message every second solid for 3 hours.I do not know much about pc's or servers etc and people just posted new messages to bump his down.
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Message 69060 - Posted: 14 Jan 2005, 18:52:06 UTC - in response to Message 69021.  

> The reason people were posting new messages was because to get the spammers
> messages off the front page.We thought doing that was the right thing.He was
> posting a new message every second solid for 3 hours.I do not know much about
> pc's or servers etc and people just posted new messages to bump his down.

You know what's ironic? During the recent US Presidential Elections NeoAmsterdam and I would butt heads all the time, but now we are allies, of sorts. My feeling is he's not mad at you, but at the situation.
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Message 69088 - Posted: 14 Jan 2005, 19:19:14 UTC
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I understand you came on here and saw my mass postings.It does look bad.But what we were trying to do was knock his messages off and we tried bumping old messages and we could not do it fast enough to knock his posts off as he was posting every few secs so we posted new messages and kept clicking submit as this made the same message post lots of times and knocked his messages way way down.We thought he would then give up , but he did not.I am sorry but I and a few others thought it was the thing to do at the time.We saw our posts going pages and pages back and thought we could stop him this way, we were wrong.Sorry.
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