Hey Googler, what brings you to ILX?

not to be all "mods r dicks" but dude is a regular poster-- is a permaban for goofing w/ statscock really worth it?

or was it messing w/ the server?

Yeah, it was -- he was running a one-man DoS. More than a million hits from his IP, and it was still running. Only way to stop him was to boot his IP.

I've also put in some other stuff to stop it happening again. When goofing with the server turns into three hours of work for me, yeh he's getting banned. Don't fuck with our server.

wow

lmao why was he doing that

that seems random

Wau wtf! Why would someone ddos ilx?

It could maybe be sthing else he was trying to do and some automation or app went mad, I suppose.

dos ddos mis amigos

It could maybe be sthing else he was trying to do and some automation or app went mad, I suppose.

― stet, Thursday, February 16, 2012 10:00 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this was my thought tho i'm not really sure what that thing could be.

u really need a zombie computer network to do a proper dos #protip

maybe he was trying to register

irl lol

^^^

hah

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― flopson and jetsam (unregistered), Wednesday, February 15, 2012 9:02 AM (Yesterday)

classic post

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oops zing misfire. I <3 SEO posts.

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Skyrim, no?

That phrase was uttered on here a looonnnggg time before Skyrim ever appeared, so I doubt it somehow.

I expect the next Elder Scroll game to involve trucker hats somehow.

(I use ILX2 when trying to find ILX on unfamiliar computers, for some reason it seems easier than trying to remember "www.ilxor.com/ILX"

― ailsa, Saturday, 24 July 2010 20:15 (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I do exactly this!

maybe unregistered's computer was infected w/ botware

rip, he was a good poster

nakh will not have been consolable

Got a message from him; he set it up to mess w/ the statscock and didnt realise the consequences. Is going to take time off anyway regardless of ban.

there's a lesson not to 'cock block

does this mean the ban is not permanent?

xp What an utterly weird thing to do.

it's funny that someone who would take the time to set up automation to fuck w/statscock would not realize that that basically constitutes a dos attack.

anyway i hope unreg comes back at some point.

haha yeah that sounds like willful ignorance at best

Uh, WHY was he messing with the statscock is surely the 64k question?

Pretty sure his modem was faster than that.

this is amazing

cements h4nl3y in my ilx personal pantheon

Uh, WHY was he messing with the statscock is surely the 64k question?

― Lindsay NAGL (Trayce), Friday, February 17, 2012 11:43 AM (2 hours ago)

presumably so ppl like me would lol @ weird threads showing up at #1

last week the #1 most thread was Gathering Of The Juggalos 2009 Infomercial even tho it hadnt been bumped in 6 months

There's a book in this whole affair. Well maybe not a book, but a damn good story tbh

Til this all blew up I'd forgotten we even had a "most viewed threads" link. We dont have a statscock in the "most posts" sense it was meant originally anymore tho, do we?

I know, right? I hardly ever looked at it, and suspect most people hardly ever give it any notice. A life's work and efforts by unreg mostly gone by unnoticed :-/

Hey Googler, what brings you to ILX? [Started by stet (stet) in February 2007, last updated 11 minutes ago by HO WBEAUTIFUL IS THE GENTLYFALLINGBLOOD?

This reddit thread http://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/pzah7/i_made_a_little_tiny_record_store_and_im_boasting/
which links to I made a little tiny record store and I'm boasting about it basically doubled our traffic that day.

ha

Well, I owe everyone an apology and a "what was I thinking?" for what went down in February.

haha welcome back

thanks

do tell

There's nothing really interesting to tell — just a horribly overboard attempt to create a meme out of g3ntlyfallingblood and leave people baffled about why it was being googled in such huge numbers. It wasn't some sophisticated hacking scheme if that's what you're wondering. I didn't choose the thread for any special reason except that it popped up in random threads and the title seemed interesting. I still feel like shit that it caused server issues, and I should have figured that would happen. dunno.

its okay. I forgive you.

thanks dayo

LOL I love that this was all a big snafu <3 I've done dumb things to servers before so I know how it can happen.

gld ur back

heavelyfallingho