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How did the spammers hit back? Can I ask what made it hard / infeasible to continue once the spammers had stopped hitting back? > seeing the human cost It se

• ChrisMarshallNY 6y ago
  I was not directly involved in the incident; hearing about it after the fact. My understanding is that a forum spammer started registering fake accounts, and then did what they do. The admin saw this. He was quite smart, and figured out who they were, then executed some kind of attack on their server. I think it was a DDoS attack. When they responded, the used a bunch of privilege escalation attacks to promote some of their registered users (It was a badly-maintained phpBB site; otherwise known as "Swiss Cheese"), and blew away a lot of the site structure and templates, so it basically imploded. Yeah, it was his "baby." He was also involved in a running battle of nerd egos with some other folks, who used the incident to discredit him, and drove him out.
  • cutemonster 6y ago
    > blew away a lot of the site structure and templates Crazy spammers who have time for such things Sad to hear how this affected him