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4chan Users Try to DDoS Tumblr, Tumblrs Raid 4chan in Revenge
- Tautology 16y agoThis will end well.
- tav 16y agoAnyone know the origins of "What is Air?". It seems to be yet another meme that's passed me by, but Googling doesn't yield much in the way of an explanation — just lots of people on Tumblr saying it and finding it seemingly funny... http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/WHAT+IS+AIR%3F http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/WHAT+IS+AIR%3F
- cmelbye 16y agoIt's normally used when reblogging a photo that makes you laugh so hard that you can't breathe. I'm not sure of its origin, but it's pretty widely used on Tumblr.
- blntechie 16y agoGoing to be fun for the neutrals. I neither use Tumblr or 4chan. Let them cancel out each other. :-) 4chan can just block registration of new users on 15th to avoid this.
- cmelbye 16y agoUh, what? The whole point of 4chan is that you're anonymous, no registration needed.
- noarchy 16y ago4chan founder Christopher Poole's TED talk on "The case for anonymity online" http://www.ted.com/talks/christopher_m00t_poole_the_case_for_anonymity_online.html http://www.ted.com/talks/christopher_m00t_poole_the_case_for...
- mishmash 16y agoYou're not anonymous to admins, only to users. Every post is still associated with a big fat naked IP address and it's a single click to ban a user of a specific post.
- cmelbye 16y agoBanning an IP address != Banning submissions from every client that hasn't posted before 11/15/10
- mishmash 16y agoI wasn't addressing the problem of banning Tumblr users, but correcting the often mistaken and repeated claim that 4chan is an anonymous forum. But seriously, if the mood stays "for real" it's not going to be hard to shutdown and ban tumblr users.
- blntechie 16y agoHa, how ignorant I was? Thanks for enlightening. As I mentioned before, I have never been to 4chan.
- zavulon 16y agoWhat's the reason behind this? Usually there's some kind of a backstory...
- drivingmenuts 16y ago4chan is that dumbass kid who releases bees into the classroom just to laugh at everyone who doesn't want to get stung. If there's a backstory, it's probably something that everyone else would shrug off and move on with their lives, but for whatever reason, the sociopaths at 4chan cannot.
- davidamcclain 16y agoSomething about 4chan /b/ inventing memes that then end up on tumblr unattributed. (I don't know that any particular memes were named in this allegation.)
- clinton 16y agoWow, way to fall for the trollbait. I wonder which side will prove Godwin's law first?
- fliph 16y agoThis reminds me of "wars" kids in my neighborhood would have when I was about ten years old. Each group of kids would think up highly elaborate plans of subterfuge, sophisticated camouflage, and spying, that, when executed, basically consisted of throwing some moldy walnuts over a fence at the other groups of kids. What they both have in common are groups of children with too much time on their hands.
- reinhardt 16y agoWalter said it best: "8 year olds, dude".
- elbenshira 16y agoIs this high school? I don't understand these things. Why would you destroy your time, resources, and sense of humanity for this childish crap?
- GHFigs 16y agoIs this high school? Yes. Though Tumblr and 4chan both have older users, the ones that participate in this kind of thing "seriously" are generally of that cliquish high school mindset and narrow worldview characteristic of but not limited to teenagers. Ironically, it's that same earnestness that provokes raids like this. Why would you destroy your time, resources, and sense of humanity for this childish crap? Lulz. Srsly.
- tbrownaw 16y agoSo how exactly does one raid a crapflood, anyhow? > Raiding 4chan? Like one /b/ user says, "Isn't that like pissing into an ocean of piss? What's the point?"
- groaner 16y agoThey may have taken a cue from xkcd: http://xkcd.com/591/ http://xkcd.com/591/
- cantbecool 16y agokids will be kids
- srgseg 16y agoCan anyone suggest how to defend against these type of attacks? Is it simply a case of rate limiting by IP? If so, anyone suggest an easy way of doing this (I assume limiting at the web server level is not good enough?)
- serge2k 16y agoTumblr is funny. 4chan is more DDOS idiocy.
- srw 16y agoI prefer street fighting or fencing, DDoS is too easy.
- villiros 16y agoI'm actually expecting this whole thing to turn out to be a fantastic case of guerilla marketing by tumblr. It just seems too hilariously perfect.
- SwaroopH 16y agoHas this something to do with Children's Day?
- mambodog 16y agoThe planned trolling tactic of the Tumblr group, "SPAM /B/ WITH KITTENS", seems... flawed. Are they not aware of the origins of lolcats?
- redthrowaway 16y ago4chan will fire back with cat gore.
- Jach 16y agoWon't someone please think of the kittens?
- petercooper 16y agoTumblr hardly needs any help in being slow in my experience.
- bostonvaulter2 16y agoWhy do we even have this on Hacker news?
- fhars 16y agoBecause it's sunday and the regulars are not procrastinating at work.