Thank you to our mods

[Invictus ChiKen]

For your work in fighting this latest invasion.

Here's hoping it is a short one.

[Mr. Coffee]

The hilarious part of this is that if I'm remembering right, all users have to be approved by a mod. So let's find out who was the dumbshit that approved uses like "anonlol" and fire that useless asshole.

[Mr Bean]

The hilarious part of this is that if I'm remembering right, all users have to be approved by a mod. So let's find out who was the dumbshit that approved uses like "anonlol" and fire that useless asshole.

You remember wrong.

[Mr. Coffee]

The hilarious part of this is that if I'm remembering right, all users have to be approved by a mod. So let's find out who was the dumbshit that approved uses like "anonlol" and fire that useless asshole.

You remember wrong.

So now we have open joining now? When the fuck did that lame shit happen?

[Duckie]

The hilarious part of this is that if I'm remembering right, all users have to be approved by a mod. So let's find out who was the dumbshit that approved uses like "anonlol" and fire that useless asshole.

You remember wrong.

So now we have open joining now? When the fuck did that lame shit happen?

Senate replaced it with a math question. I don't know why either.

[Beowulf]

The hilarious part of this is that if I'm remembering right, all users have to be approved by a mod. So let's find out who was the dumbshit that approved uses like "anonlol" and fire that useless asshole.

You remember wrong.

So now we have open joining now? When the fuck did that lame shit happen?

Because admin-approved registration was a pain in the ass.

[Alyrium Denryle]

We are protected from bots by an automated registration protection system. Skill challenges, things like that. The old policy used to be that people using anonymous email accounts needed a 10 dollar donation, I dont know if that has changed.

Still, the system as it is now does not prevent people from registering and posting kiddy porn, or even from registering and then having a bot do their dirty work.

Still, a giant *HUG* to the mod staff. Refreshing a thread and seeing kiddy porn was one of the more disturbing things to ever happen to me... Thank you for cleansing our board.

[The Vortex Empire]

Thank you mods for your swift banning of those trolls. Not something I needed to see.

No more of those freaks posting for the time being. Maybe it's over?

[Alyrium Denryle]

Or they have just had their IPs banned and are setting up proxies.

[Alyeska]

I strongly recommend everyone turn off images in posts for the time being. Best way to avoid trouble for the immediate future.

And please keep reporting the posts. Those flags help us a great deal.

[Mr Bean]

If you want to be safe for the next day or so while we swing back over to the old system(IE give us money) or Mod approved, or a possible delay in rights method. Turn off Image viewing

Control Panel-Profile -Edit Display options, turn off images and flash. You can still view it, you just have to click it.

[Mr. Coffee]

So you're telling me that the one thing that actually seriously protected the site from troll invasions like this we just got rid of because it was a "pain in the ass". Because trolls can't do math...

Who ever had that idea, fire them too.

[Coyote]

I got a Report from a user in the HoC and while I was in the process of writing a reply the whole thread got spammed... I went as quick as I could to get rid of picture first, since that slowed down everything, then went back to break links. Damn, the little buggers were fast.

[Mr. Coffee]

Because admin-approved registration was a pain in the ass.

More of a pain in the ass then having child porn posted on the born, retard?

[Beowulf]

So you're telling me that the one thing that actually seriously protected the site from troll invasions like this we just got rid of because it was a "pain in the ass". Because trolls can't do math...

Who ever had that idea, fire them too.

That's was Mike's idea. And it wouldn't really have protected the board from troll invasions. They'd have just signed up a bunch of accounts early. Dumbass.

[Coyote]

So you're telling me that the one thing that actually seriously protected the site from troll invasions like this we just got rid of because it was a "pain in the ass". Because trolls can't do math...

Who ever had that idea, fire them too.

We hadn't had a Board Invasion for a long time-- certainly not a serious one. I think the last one was Troll Kingdom, and that was kinda low key... truth is, we saw 'Bots' as more of a threat...

[Schuyler Colfax]

I turned it off the second I saw the "war shots" and "necrophilia", I could barely stomach that, it was pretty obvious that it was only gonna get worse from there.

Why do people look up that shit?

[Mr. Coffee]

That's was Mike's idea. And it wouldn't really have protected the board from troll invasions. They'd have just signed up a bunch of accounts early. Dumbass.

So you're saying that making the trolls job hard is a bad thing how, dickhead? Oh, so instead of being forced to join, keep a minimum of activity with an account in order to keep it from being purged, and actually plan and coordinate their shitheadery, they're now able to instantly join with obvious names like "anonlulz" or "ceepeelol" and post child porn at will. Because, oh sweet Baby Jesus, it was inconvenient to have a mod or an admin eyeball things.

[Coyote]

I turned it off the second I saw the "war shots" and "necrophilia", I could barely stomach that, it was pretty obvious that it was only gonna get worse from there.

Why do people look up that shit?

They think they're Innernet Tuffguys. Posting that makes them look tough, and 'hard core'.

[Alyeska]

This might continue for the next few days. For those who search the forum from work, I cannot stress strongly enough, TURN OFF IMAGES. The child porn aspect is being discussed and will be dealt with, we do not need vigilantes from our members.

[FBIAGENT#2613]

We've detected him on IMGBAY.org where he hosted it, can your admin please hand us the IP?

Edit: Suspect account locked and dealt with.
-Alyeska

[Beowulf]

Yeah, so I'm probably going to avoid the board during work for a couple days. *sigh*

[Mr. Coffee]

Seriously, can we go back to having mod/admin approval on newbies?

[Coyote]

So you're saying that making the trolls job hard is a bad thing how, dickhead? Oh, so instead of being forced to join, keep a minimum of activity with an account in order to keep it from being purged, and actually plan and coordinate their shitheadery, they're now able to instantly join with obvious names like "anonlulz" or "ceepeelol" and post child porn at will. Because, oh sweet Baby Jesus, it was inconvenient to have a mod or an admin eyeball things.

Actually, the TK raid had that. We had a former Village Idiot who redeemed himself, worked hard, to look good, etc, by the handle Raoul Duke Jr. He was a member for a couple years or so and supposed to be the "inside man".

But when they finally did their raid it was... I mean, it was like zombie uprisings: sure, the zombies get an initial, surprise round in because you don't expect it, but once aware of the problem, it was dealt with fairly quickly. For the amount of work and long-term planning that went into it, it really fizzled.

[Alyrium Denryle]

So you're saying that making the trolls job hard is a bad thing how, dickhead? Oh, so instead of being forced to join, keep a minimum of activity with an account in order to keep it from being purged, and actually plan and coordinate their shitheadery, they're now able to instantly join with obvious names like "anonlulz" or "ceepeelol" and post child porn at will. Because, oh sweet Baby Jesus, it was inconvenient to have a mod or an admin eyeball things.

Actually, the TK raid had that. We had a former Village Idiot who redeemed himself, worked hard, to look good, etc, by the handle Raoul Duke Jr. He was a member for a couple years or so and supposed to be the "inside man".

But when they finally did their raid it was... I mean, it was like zombie uprisings: sure, the zombies get an initial, surprise round in because you don't expect it, but once aware of the problem, it was dealt with fairly quickly. For the amount of work and long-term planning that went into it, it really fizzled.

You know that SOB actually lived down the street from me?

It turns out the RDJ was actually half the trolls in board history...