Forum Post: stop all new posts, we are being spam attacked
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 6, 2011, 8:33 p.m. EST by MattLHolck
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Isn't anonymous supposed to be on our side? This attack feels like some 12 year old script kiddie that thinks botspamming our site is cool. If there are hackers out there that are on our side can you please crash this kids computer?
a problem anonymous voting is other people are in charge tells how the vote turned out
http://s11.zetaboards.com/occupytogether/topic/7447210/1/#new this sites organizatoin has so epic failed that people are now making new sites. [18:11] <gawdoftruth> where are those sub forums? where is the wiki? what the fook happened? [18:12] <gawdoftruth> what am i supposed to do with all of these people just tellign me to leave this noise and join thm? [18:12] <gawdoftruth> what am i supposed to tell people on the forum? [18:12] <gawdoftruth> this is all of it epic failing,. [18:12] <gawdoftruth> you are loosing thousands of potential participants every day. [18:12] <gawdoftruth> so you can do what? protest? [18:13] <gawdoftruth> occupy new orleans? [18:13] <gawdoftruth> there is and was and can not be anything more important than sub forums. [18:13] <gawdoftruth> WTF? [18:13] <gawdoftruth> this should take an hour. not a week. not two weeks. [18:13] <gawdoftruth> do you have any intention of putting up sub forums? [18:13] <gawdoftruth> how soon? when you get back from protesting? [18:16] <gawdoftruth> the movement is going to fail because of this and probably already has. [18:33] <gawdoftruth> there are no mods. the ones in irc chat are abusive and have no meta process. there is nothing like that in the forum no moderation at all except for some deletions. if you really think something good is coming- i hope your right. the problem is- its well past almost too late to matter now. For assorted systemic and strategic reasons, this had to be done a week ago, because now i will have to deal with 1001 voices trying to drag us off topic and off focus and away from work. In short, the chance we had to m [18:33] <gawdoftruth> http://occupywallst.org/forum/stop-all-new-posts-we-are-being-spam-attacked/#comment-24814
it's an internet attack nothing more
if this forum cannot serves use
we shall have to move to other forums
just now you figured this out?
it's been workable during other times
the flow has been manageable during other times
but the influx at this point will bury any coherent discussions
if the input pipe needs to be shut off we can discuss a reasonable number of subjects
we need sub categories
steady as she goes
as a systems theorist and sociologist, i can tell you the emergency here was last week. now its so bad really that theres nothing to save. Pretty much all the sensible people have left or are creating new forums or etc because this one epic fails so badly. Its been getting steadily worse all week. Lack of sub forums and moderation= epic fail.
the admin here spoke of getting sub categories together
that organization will help
I'll keep my eye here
yeah. and that was a week ago.
I'm am impressed by the way this forum has improved the few days I've been on it.
I'm sure the web team is capable of creating a forum with sub categories
moderators will be needed to sort subject mater and delete spam which takes time and vigilance
it takes time to program a sub category system
there are no mods. the ones in irc chat are abusive and have no meta process. there is nothing like that in the forum no moderation at all except for some deletions. if you really think something good is coming- i hope your right. the problem is- its well past almost too late to matter now. For assorted systemic and strategic reasons, this had to be done a week ago, because now i will have to deal with 1001 voices trying to drag us off topic and off focus and away from work. In short, the chance we had to make organization happen was and is a window. that window is now slamming shut and soon no matter what we do we will not be able to create order with everyone whos sane being drowned out by wingnuts.
tomorrow always comes
it is never too late
let me put it to you this way. it now takes piles of extra time and energy for me to fix it. if it can get fixed its on the backs of the lucids to bail it out. if it doesn't get fixed what it actually is is an infantile temper tantrum by a bunch of rebels without a clue.
archive and start over ?
I'll mod when I can
snagging chunks of this conversation over to the new location is a great idea. copy and paste. the trolls have arrived en masse. hopefully theres enough message and signal in that and the protest wakes up. if not. its long past over. we just got troll swarmed .
they will tire
right. sigh. face palm.
shut the site down for a day might climax their energy?
let them think they have won
no, its better to let it play out, jart is going to nuke it all with a program.
glad you've found help
this isn't the first forum to suffer a spam attack
from gLee http://www.gleeforum.com/index.php?showtopic=23160
not that you've time to read others problems
i hope.
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Which one?