Journal flikx's Journal: Pointless wars 166
Okay, I know a lot of you people hate Vladinator. I even hated him once before. (He being a trollbuster and all). I threw petty differences aside and helped out a site in need long ago. I still help administer said site.. whether or not you like it or hate it.
That notwithstanding, it seems that there is a resurgence of old time petty wars. Yes, I remember the trollslap.pl days of 'especially the FASH' section. I found plenty of entertainment with the 200+ post threads of name calling and childish insults in sid=trolltalk
I rarely let these things get to me, and I certainly never let it effect my real life. Like I would actually give a shit that someone I've never met; someone hundreds of kilometers away thinks of me as an asshole. I generally keep a low profile. Most of you don't even know the identity of my trolling accounts, many of you out there really don't give a shit about what I do anyways. And you shouldn't. This isn't about me.
I usually let these things fizzle out, but sometimes things do get out of hand. Prank calls, dDoS attacks, and other annoyance methods -- these were things I did back when I was 12. Though I have grown out of these tactics, I can still realize that there is quite a lot of motivation out there; [or is it boredom?]
Now, I have seemed to draw the ire of these pranksters.. though it is now getting serious. I have done nothing, I seem to be being attacked solely because of my association with Scott Lockwood. I'm not talking about references to my name in the scripted submission queue attack on Geekizoid, and the massive crapflood in trolltalk.. I could care less if some of you fantisize of me involved in sweaty man-sex with the object of your disaffection. [ugh]. I'm talking about the small rash of personal attacks that are beginning to surface against me.
Here is what I am talking about: On Wednesday, 10 April 2002, someone contacted one of my places of employment via email. This email was rather succinct.. mainly it made the blind accusation that I have been defacing websites from an IP address belonging to my notebook system. It went on further to accuse me of running dDoS attacks. It also accused me of making threats of site defacement. Lucky for me, my boss did not buy it.. especially due to the fact that there was no evidence presented. This is a position at my university, and since I am already on probation due to last years events with SOS, the email has made it to the Dean's office. The Dean is not quite as understanding as my employer.. yet, due to lack of evidenc there is nothing to persue. I had the issue declared dead. Though the email now resides in my permanent file with my university.
Okay, so the email was a bit off the top, and was fairly poor as frame-up attempts go. What really bugs me is the fact that constant DoS attacks have been hitting my office for two days, and the IP addresses I usually use for my notebook in the engineering building has periodically been experiencing packet floods. These things are annoying, but easy to work around. What I don't get is that the attackers seem hell bent on bringing more and more people into this petty war. People are trying to work at my office, and other students are trying to study and do research at my lab. What is the point in dDoSing a walking robot??
This rambling finally brings me to my point: to the attackers, I would like you to come forward. Obviously, you have quite a grudge.. something has pissed you off along the way. I'm not interested in paying extortions or fielding countless demands. I only want a dialog. This isn't so I can write a stupid long missive about script kiddies dDoSed my site and I pleaded with him! [like Mr. Raw sockets will be the death of the internet].
All I'm interested in is:
- What your grudges are. What events have transpired to bring you to action.
- Who you are. If you're going to take action like this, you should come forward and take credit for your actions.
- What should happen. What are you trying to accomplish with this? If it's simple annoyance, please leave those only superficially involved out of it.
Either that, or get your r00tk175 going, bring out your sk1llz, call your z0mbi3z, or whatever. You can't keep it up forever, and I sure as hell can weather the storm. Personal attacks, I'll respond appropriately. And no, I'm not talking about moves you can see in Blade II. Although I did take Tang Su Do lessons for three years back when I was 10. Like I've actually practiced any of it in the past 12 years.
Now I have work to do. Leave me be.
Addendum: My my, it looks like the crapfloods are rolling in. Nice work. Glad that you people like the new Geekizoid ass section; especially since the 'fash' section thing fizzled out. And this url looks like one hell of a regex.
Why are you telling them this? (Score:2)
I hesitate to even post this since I don't want to give anyone any ideas, but you seem to have made things clear enough.
Re:Why are you telling them this? (Score:1)
I think the Dean's office just wants me out. And I think they'd rather see me graduate than get expelled. Plus, since they're also alerted to the fact that people are making pointless noise about me, I would hope that they'll do a little bit of research before taking any sort of action.
Furthermore, I think those who complained about my 'activities' may already be aware of the situation.. or could at least put 2+2 together.
Hopefully, I'm not giving anyone any ideas. I am still questioning whether or not someone really has it out for me (and why); or if I'm just catching flak for being associated with Vladinator.
If you just did what I think you did... (Score:2)
Re:If you just did what I think you did... (Score:2)
You were the winner of the 'flikx has three modpoints left and nothing to do with them' sweepstakes.
Better watch out! (Score:2)
Seriously, use the "overrated" mod and it will save you from m2 and also from getting blacklisted.
Re:Better watch out! (Score:1)
Nah, that behavior wont get me blacklisted.. especially since I found fairly insightful comments. Also, I think that the over/underrated metamod hole no longer exists on slashdot, but I may be wrong.
Heh. (Score:1)