What just happened to the forum?

[Reploid Productions]

We all gotta vent sometime.

[Indo States]

Server load is still a bit high, if you get one of those General SQL Errors, it'll probably say somewhere in the notice "too many connections", that will clear on its own in a couple of minutes.

Let's hope that [v] may come here and fix the problem. Idk if we need server maintenance.

[Auphelia]

Do you foresee these attacks stopping anytime soon? Or is this more a case of you having to play catch up with an anonymous attacker?

This must be very stressful for you all and I do wish you the best of luck in doing . . . whatever it is one does to stop something like this. Logging in to NS comprises the totality of my technical savviness.

[Barberria]

What do people exactly have to gain from this? Spamming with many bots requires some skill/possibly money, so why bother breaking rules on forums?

[Atheris]

What do people exactly have to gain from this? Spamming with many bots requires some skill/possibly money, so why bother breaking rules on forums?

le epic troll

[Outer Sparta]

We all gotta vent sometime.

We do thank you and the moderation team for dealing with these annoying spammers and whatnot and trying to keep the site running smoothly.

[Indo States]

Do you foresee these attacks stopping anytime soon? Or is this more a case of you having to play catch up with an anonymous attacker?

Idk, probably the attacker uses VPN to Initiate the Attacks. The only way to Prevent this from Happening is to Ban the IP Addresses that Attackers use even they use VPN, or They need Possibly an Help from [violet] so we can Mitigate the Issue.

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What do people exactly have to gain from this? Spamming with many bots requires some skill/possibly money, so why bother breaking rules on forums?

Possibly it is an hacker, if it is, too scary because it may Cause an Data Breach as we know. This kinda Remembers me of Roblox DDOS Attacks in 2017 (or 2016) but without the Data Breach.

[Goraria]

What do people exactly have to gain from this? Spamming with many bots requires some skill/possibly money, so why bother breaking rules on forums?

Idk maybe because their bored and they want to do stuff. Not sure what the spammer’s life is all about.

[503]

We all gotta vent sometime.

Amogus.

[Indo States]

What do people exactly have to gain from this? Spamming with many bots requires some skill/possibly money, so why bother breaking rules on forums?

Idk maybe because their bored and they want to do stuff. Not sure what the spammer’s life is all about.

Or probably the Spammer is an Kid? If it is, he already Violated NationStates' Terms of Service (or privacy policy), even the COPPA where he needed to be at age of 13 before entering the Site.

[Istantine]

We all gotta vent sometime.

A M O G U S

What do people exactly have to gain from this? Spamming with many bots requires some skill/possibly money, so why bother breaking rules on forums?

It's for fun, revenge, or both

[Barberria]

Idk maybe because their bored and they want to do stuff. Not sure what the spammer’s life is all about.

Or probably the Spammer is an Kid? If it is, he already Violated NationStates' Terms of Service (or privacy policy), even the COPPA where he needed to be at age of 13 before entering the Site.

I figured it was something like any of the above. Break rules to break rules, whoopity whoop.

[Istantine]

Idk maybe because their bored and they want to do stuff. Not sure what the spammer’s life is all about.

Or probably the Spammer is an Kid? If it is, he already Violated NationStates' Terms of Service (or privacy policy), even the COPPA where he needed to be at age of 13 before entering the Site.

Unlikely, I bet kids don't even go to the forums as they're busy playing another game

[Goraria]

Idk maybe because their bored and they want to do stuff. Not sure what the spammer’s life is all about.

Or probably the Spammer is an Kid? If it is, he already Violated NationStates' Terms of Service (or privacy policy), even the COPPA where he needed to be at age of 13 before entering the Site.

A kid discovering porn? Imagine that happening to a child.

[Reploid Productions]

We all gotta vent sometime.

Amogus.

503's totally acting sus guys!

In other news, made some tweaks backstage that should help mitigate the server being slammed. I haven't hit a "board disabled" or SQL too many connections error in a bit, so hopefully that helped.

As for the spammer and their motives, why waste time speculating on why somebody is flinging their own poop everywhere? We got better things to do with our time.

[Swedish-Norwegian Kingdoms]

Or probably the Spammer is an Kid? If it is, he already Violated NationStates' Terms of Service (or privacy policy), even the COPPA where he needed to be at age of 13 before entering the Site.

A kid discovering porn? Imagine that happening to a child.

Lol

[Goraria]

Amogus.

503's totally acting sus guys!

That literally just made me laugh.

[Indo States]

Or probably the Spammer is an Kid? If it is, he already Violated NationStates' Terms of Service (or privacy policy), even the COPPA where he needed to be at age of 13 before entering the Site.

Unlikely, I bet kids don't even go to the forums as they're busy playing another game

Well, they might get an Help from their Parents or Siblings, or Probably he learns how to ddos an forums by just visiting the "Dark Web"?

[Swedish-Norwegian Kingdoms]

503's totally acting sus guys!

That literally just made me laugh.

A M O G U S

[Indo States]

Or probably the Spammer is an Kid? If it is, he already Violated NationStates' Terms of Service (or privacy policy), even the COPPA where he needed to be at age of 13 before entering the Site.

A kid discovering porn? Imagine that happening to a child.

Probably used an Another Discord Image Link (media.discordapp) while cdn.discordapp (the Image Host of Discord) to Spam the Image, and he's probably using b***bot.

[Drew Durrnil]

That literally just made me laugh.

A M O G U S

kinda sus

[Reploid Productions]

Alright guys, let's stop speculating in wildly erroneous ways on how the spammer was spamming. Whether or not he had a script doesn't really matter much since 1 post or 100 it still takes mods the same amount of mouse clicks to make all his work vanish into the aether.

[Indo States]

Alright guys, let's stop speculating in wildly erroneous ways on how the spammer was spamming. Whether or not he had a script doesn't really matter much since 1 post or 100 it still takes mods the same amount of mouse clicks to make all his work vanish into the aether.

I have to Ask Reppy, why not calling [violet] to mitigate the Issue?

[Goraria]

Alright guys, let's stop speculating in wildly erroneous ways on how the spammer was spamming. Whether or not he had a script doesn't really matter much since 1 post or 100 it still takes mods the same amount of mouse clicks to make all his work vanish into the aether.

I have to Ask Reppy, why not calling [violet] to mitigate the Issue?

Doesn’t [violet] only do the technical stuff?

[Indo States]

I have to Ask Reppy, why not calling [violet] to mitigate the Issue?

Doesn’t [violet] only do the technical stuff?

Yeah, she Fixed some Issues in both Gameside and Forumside. Game Admins can Fix Small Issues and this Issue wouldn't be Solved if [violet] wasn't there. Since it is forum-related.