To our new SDMB refugees and Fair-weather friends

[Chefguy]

Originally Posted by Giraffe

Does that help at all?

You mean besides the awards and accolades?

Okay, I'm slow and stupid and didn't see that my post count was artificially enhanced, much like my. . .umm. . .never mind.

[Spud]

I figured that I could find out what was going on here.

I just went from being a 99'er to a noob.

I feel so... young.

[Ellis Dee]

Looks like I'm one of those who signed up back in the day but never came back. (Hey, I have the same join date display as Giraffe: Mar 2009. Go me!)

It's pretty comical how the SDMB has no public means of communication outside of their own site. No twitter, no facebook, no nothing.

[BrickaBracka]

Originally Posted by Chefguy

my post count was artificially enhanced.

Don't sell yourself short.

Fast typer, I'm sure of it. I can spot you guys a mile away.

[Pleonast]

Originally Posted by Jaglavak

No problem. Just keep running around naked and pretty soon you'll be in the back of a warm safe police car.

Dancing around naked and ugly works even faster.

(Can anyone post bail? For a friend... )

[Prof. Pepperwinkle]

Posted over on the Dope:

ITD12 ITD12 is online now
Guest

Join Date: Apr 2016
Info about the outage
This IvoryTowerDenizen posting on behalf of Ed

"SDMB service disruption

The SDMB was the target of a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack on Thursday 4/21. After several hours we succeeded in getting the board back online, but continuing problems prevent most users (including most of the staff) from logging in. We appreciate your patience while we attempt to restore normal service. -Ed Zotti"

Good luck and fare thee well.

[silenus]

In other words "We have no fucking clue what we're doing over here, and are waiting for a 12 year old to tell us how to fix this. Hope everybody doesn't wander away in the meantime."

[pickle berry]

Maybe they should try turning it off and then back on again. That always works for me.

[Spud]

Now I'm starting to regret adding my SSN and banking info to my profile over there yesterday.

[The Futility of Nihilism]

Originally Posted by socko

Won't this lead to trouble in the end?

I would hope so.

[joyfool]

Originally Posted by pickle berry

Maybe they should try turning it off and then back on again. That always works for me.

See for me, it's always another plug in. They get loose and that causes all the hamsters to go on sabbatical.

[The Futility of Nihilism]

Originally Posted by Chefguy

I'm cold and frightened.

The "cold" part is undoubtedly because you're not wearing any socks. The "frightened" part is probably because that's all anyone else is wearing.

[The Futility of Nihilism]

Originally Posted by Rat_Diva

Fenris.

(ETA: that's in response to Pencil, but it works pretty well as a response to Inner Sticker's post, too)

Yeah whenever someone says "viral load" I think of Fenris, too.

[Kolak of Twilo]

Originally Posted by Spud

Now I'm starting to regret adding my SSN and banking info to my profile over there yesterday.

Yep, I recently had my paid membership expire and kept forgetting to go renew it. Now I'm kinda happy I didn't put any banking info on there recently.

[The Futility of Nihilism]

BTW, new users should make themselves acquainted with the rules.

[Canadjun]

Originally Posted by Ellis Dee

It's pretty comical how the SDMB has no public means of communication outside of their own site. No twitter, no facebook, no nothing.

Well, they have demonstrated that they can send a broadcast to everyone that has a valid e-mail recorded (they did that the last time SDMB was fubar). Would be nice if they did that again this time so that people would have some idea what the F is going on without needing to poke around in a crippled system.

[Musicat]

Originally Posted by Canadjun

Well, they have demonstrated that they can send a broadcast to everyone that has a valid e-mail recorded (they did that the last time SDMB was fubar). Would be nice if they did that again this time so that people would have some idea what the F is going on without needing to poke around in a crippled system.

Aviate, Navigate, Communicate. Right now, they are at the trying-to-fly stage. Since we don't know what's going on, how do we know they have access to the email list(s)?

[Chefguy]

Originally Posted by Spud

Now I'm starting to regret adding my SSN and banking info to my profile over there yesterday.

On the plus side, our mere presence here should significantly raise the IQ.


::backs out slowly::

[Pencil]

Originally Posted by The Futility of Nihilism

BTW, new users should make themselves acquainted with the rules.

We have rules?
Dafuq

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*If you're wondering about emojis/smilies the answer really, really is because Fenris.

[IronHorse]

Originally Posted by Inner Stickler

What is weirding people out is that the IP address they get in their email is an internal IP address.

That's not too uncommon in a DDoS. They're probably spoofing their IP address, to make them harder to track. If you don't need a reply, then you don't need a valid IP address.

I know they don't have the best tech over there, but surely they would have noticed if the DoS was actually coming from inside the system.

[BJMoose]

Hardly. Multiplying whole numbers by negative numbers will only make things worse.

Don't back into that electric cattle prod.

[Total Stranger]

Hello all you new people. You do not know me. I am from Belgium. Fenris was very nice to create this thread so we could say hello new people

"Hello new people"

I think everyone should create socks until there's a post that says Straight Dope people should come over here until they are back up so they can see the art that is the smilies of Fenris.

Who I am definitely not. Despite our resemblance

[Fenris]

Originally Posted by Spud

I figured that I could find out what was going on here.

I just went from being a 99'er to a noob.

I feel so... young.

You don't any more. You're back to being a '99er buster, and you're gonna LIKE it!

[Total Stranger]

Originally Posted by Fenris

You don't any more. You're back to being a '99er buster, and you're gonna LIKE it!

Fenris is such a good person for helping people out. I am from Belgium and I know this things about good people.

[teela brown]

Poirot? Is that you?

[Rat Diva]

SDMB is back up, w00t!

[The Futility of Nihilism]

Originally Posted by Fenris

You don't any more. You're back to being a '99er buster, and you're gonna LIKE it!

Jan 2000 ≠ '99er

[Rat Diva]

It does if you're using the original Pentium chip (gads, there's a joke I never thought I'd be able to make again...)

[Jaglavak]

I bet you still have canned food from Y2K. G'wan, admit it.

[Rat Diva]

Begone, lest I pummel thee with Monica Lewinsky jokes

[JackieLikesVariety]

[JackieLikesVariety]

Originally Posted by The Futility of Nihilism

The "cold" part is undoubtedly because you're not wearing any socks. The "frightened" part is probably because that's all anyone else is wearing.

Some of us are sockless !

and letting our toes wave in the breeze

[Leaffan]

Thanks Giraffe Boards for being accommodating.

I mean that sincerely. At least we were able to share some information about the outage.

Merci beaucoup.

[JackieLikesVariety]

New blood livens it up

Go crazy use some smiles!!!

[wolfpup]

Originally Posted by Fenris

Welcome.

If you haven't been here before or if you're one of those people who registered and then just ignored us < sob >, feel free to post here to (re)introduce yourself.

You'd have to be a pretty gullible Doper and the son of a silly person to suddenly switch allegiances and join the competition just because the Dope was down. I mean, you'd have to be a really pathetic dweeb to have considered 24 hours of outage to be such an agonizing scourge of hopelessness that it drove you to a different message board. What Doper would become so desperate to continue posting his inane comments that he'd be driven to join a viciously competitive message board that might have caused the outage in the first place? (Not saying they did, mind you, just saying "might have", you know?) And what idiot would do so even after the Dope was up again?

BTW, where's the orientation seminar? Will there be booze?

[Pere]

Originally Posted by wolfpup

BTW, where's the orientation seminar? Will there be booze?

That would be here.

[eleanorigby]

Originally Posted by Inner Stickler

It sounds like someone is constantly hammering at the forum trying to log into all the accounts. The board has an anti-hacking timeout period for too many incorrect password tries but the attacker is continually tripping the timeout period thereby locking everyone, including legitimate users out of the forum.

What is weirding people out is that the IP address they get in their email is an internal IP address.

It's Opal, back to add that third item to her list!*


*or more likely to ask for suggestions for same and then turn them all down...

[wolfpup]

Originally Posted by Chefguy

Okay, I'm slow and stupid and didn't see that my post count was artificially enhanced, much like my. . .umm. . .never mind.

What skulduggery is this? By my rough calculations, it will take me 500 years of assiduous labor just to match the exalted prestige that was bestowed on you by a mere whim of the reigning overlord. Bastards! This is exactly why we don't have feudal systems any more, the kind where you suddenly wield supreme power just because some watery tart throws a sword at you.

[RatedZ]

Originally Posted by wolfpup

BTW, where's the orientation seminar? Will there be booze? I like tickling clowns.

The main thing to remember is that altering quotes is forbidden.

[DrWas]

Was there another purge on the SDMB?

[Random Precision]

I believe it was more of a flush.

[BJMoose]

Originally Posted by Jaglavak

I bet you still have canned food from Y2K. G'wan, admit it.

Be nice. She's stuck with the things because her can opener wasn't Y2K compliant.

[BrickaBracka]

Originally Posted by Spud

Now I'm starting to regret adding my SSN and banking info to my profile over there yesterday.

I'm gonna go with "He's just fucking with us"

There's no way...absolutely no way...paid membership would be done via bank information. And SSN - nah. That's got to just be a joke, right?

I only take this half way seriously because it's a really weird board culture over there and maybe...just maybe...

[NoClueBoy]

Noobs!