What happened to Kalin

[Rean]

Very unpleasant individual.

 

[Joggerino]

Banning people who repeatedly use a users IRL name even after the user made it clear they don't want their IRL name mentioned.. is 100% justified. Trying to argue this means you're a certified turbo-retard. What's amazing is that the ban is only for a week because most places would give you a lifetime ban. Just look at the horror that is forum.rpg.net if you don't understand what a good place this is.

 

[A horse of course]

I agree with the nigger(ino).

 

[BING XI LAO]

Except they're not. Vaccines have a long history of them simply working. The fact that you believe anything different is because you have drank the kool aid and think there's merit in stupid conspiratard memes. As for race, sure, I guess that if you embrace some debunked "race" theory, you can make it about politics, then again you can make anything about politics if you're dumb or in bad faith enough.

It would appear that you literally believe that the word "politics" means "having correct opinions". It's like an ESL variation of the NPC meme.

Bester was saying "you'll lose everyone's respect", where "everyone" of course meant, morons like himself and others on this site who think "free speech" is being able to spout any retarded shit and not having anyone call you out on it.

I pointed out how the "respect" of individuals who believe retarded shit is not really all that important.

That you and people like you felt personally attacked by that says more about you than me, really.

The way you often start things off by sneeringly calling other posters dumb is reminiscent of your fellow liberal anklebiter Metro's habit of calling them uneducated. Most likely you're traumatised somehow about your mediocre intellect like I assume Metro is about failing a crucial exam. It's almost as if you want us to call you dumb and you're abusing yourself instead of just accepting yourself for who you are.

 

[a Goat]

Vaccines have a long history of them simply working.

You don't have phd in vaccinology, you're just internet janitor so shut the fuck up

 

[A horse of course]

Is derailing this thread to argue about vaccines some kind of coverup?

 

[Ol' Willy]

Is derailing this thread to argue about vaccines some kind of coverup?

From my limited experience, the purpose of this Scruffy guy is to arrive at the heated moment and derange the discussion from the relevant topic to some regular but completely offtopic hotly disputed point

 

[Cael]

Well, I didn't bitch about how DU handles free speech here. Like I said, he can do what he wants here.

But I think rpgcodex is one of the very few forums where free speech somewhat really exists. I mean you can basically write what you want here without getting banned.

For Pete's sake, stop feeding the ignorant their idiocy. "Free speech" as a concept is about the government of the day not stiffling your ability to say what you think. It is not about private individuals, organisations or venues. The owner of a venue, be it physical (i.e., a pub) or digital (i.e., this forum) has the right to allow or disallow whatever he wants. If he doesn't want trannies, he can make that as a rule and a condition of entry. Sure, the sjw fuckheads can protest, scream and shout, but the "free speech" means the law cannot touch the owner.

THAT is the concept that is under assault today in the Western world. Western governments ARE making laws that prevent you from saying what you think. If the fucktards screaming "muh free speech!!!!!" want to really die on a hill, go die on that one, not this thing about DarkUnderlord and the Codexian mods stopping cunts from being cunts.

 

[puur prutswerk]

Ok I am going to read the thread now, maybe my post was in bad taste, I don't know yet.

 

[The_Mask]

I really like this place. Please don't kill it. Either by DU pressing the shut down button. Or by everyone leaving.

 

[Abu Antar]

puur prutswerk
^See you in a few weeks.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

^See you in a few weeks.

DU has no power over the prophet of Havafun.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

There are people who still don't use the ignore scr*ffy script conveniently located in my signature. Sad!

 

[puur prutswerk]

There is no need to ban. The Vito anagram name was in the first page just visible and Onecorle is just Corleone spelled differently. I highly doubt that anyone on this site is actually named Vito Corleone.

I didn't read the thread past the post I quoted, maybe I should have.

 

[dacencora]

There are people who still don't use the ignore scr*ffy script conveniently located in my signature. Sad!

Yeah I think it's time.

Wow, much better.

 

[jackofshadows]

Bunch of safe spacers, lmao.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Bunch of safe spacers, lmao.

If I wanted reddit's opinion on a topic I'd go read reddit

 

[Lady Error]

DU has a point in that some people actually think it is their God-given right to verbally abuse the admins at every opportunity. And then whine when said admins fuck around with them. If you have to fight da power on an Internet forum, at least pick on the mods as they cannot do nearly as much.

Bester also has a point though in that a forum consists of its user base and not just the admins. However, that is more of an academic point and not really relevant to the current drama.

 

[IDtenT]

Time for DU to establish parliament.

 

[Gangrelrumbler]

For example, any Administrator on the website can access your profile. In that, we can see your email address. I can take that email address, google all or any part of it (which for most people is fairly unique) and find instagram accounts, twitter, old dating profiles, facebook, your employment, the list goes on. Most social media apps these days have a function that allows you to find users based on their email address.

We can go one further and cross reference with everything you've ever posted. You mentioned a favourite taco joint, or a school you went to, or your home town? We can check that against your time-zone (and let's be honest, most of you chose your local time zone didn't you? You'd be surprised at how easily that narrows your location down). Hell, there's even a field for date of birth on here.

Up next, we can pull your IP address, which is saved with every post you make, over the 10+ years some users have been posting here. Did you remember to use your VPN every time? I mean, every single time? Because I can download public lists of VPNs and TOR exit nodes, compare them to every IP you've posted from, pull out the ones that don't come up as public proxies, and check if there's a pattern. Maybe it's always the same exit node, maybe it's always a VPN from the same country, maybe you forgot just that one time and posted from your mobile device.

We then have the users' extended fingerprint: operating system, screen resolution, browser. Most people don't realise that those 3 alone can identify specific users (not everyone uses that exact resolution, with that OS, with that browser version - and the privacy browsers are even better, they're the odd ones out and easily identifiable in a crowd of Chrome and Firefox).

There's always a risk that a rogue admin could abuse this information. And there are forums where that's happened. There are also forums that have been hacked and had user information revealed. Some of those we can help, some of those we can't and can only mop up afterwards.

And I haven't even gotten onto the most basic aspect of the website. Everything above is stored in a database on our web host. Anyone with access to that web host, or that database, can see it all, including everything you've ever posted. And private messages too. Over my 20+ years administrating forums I've seen passwords to other websites, email accounts, and all sorts shared in private messages between users. All unencrypted, sitting in an SQL dump file.

As I said before, there are some people here who need to seriously re-consider what they're posting on an RPG discussion website.

That's interesting but doesn't address credit card/payment information that Infinitron mentioned. Who exactly has access to that? I'm not concerned with insane admin doxxing me and showing in front of my doors to kill me, but one rogue admin with credit card info can be a problem. I'm OK with you personally having my info, but I'm concerned about other staff members.

 

[A horse of course]

For example, any Administrator on the website can access your profile. In that, we can see your email address. I can take that email address, google all or any part of it (which for most people is fairly unique) and find instagram accounts, twitter, old dating profiles, facebook, your employment, the list goes on. Most social media apps these days have a function that allows you to find users based on their email address.

We can go one further and cross reference with everything you've ever posted. You mentioned a favourite taco joint, or a school you went to, or your home town? We can check that against your time-zone (and let's be honest, most of you chose your local time zone didn't you? You'd be surprised at how easily that narrows your location down). Hell, there's even a field for date of birth on here.

Up next, we can pull your IP address, which is saved with every post you make, over the 10+ years some users have been posting here. Did you remember to use your VPN every time? I mean, every single time? Because I can download public lists of VPNs and TOR exit nodes, compare them to every IP you've posted from, pull out the ones that don't come up as public proxies, and check if there's a pattern. Maybe it's always the same exit node, maybe it's always a VPN from the same country, maybe you forgot just that one time and posted from your mobile device.

We then have the users' extended fingerprint: operating system, screen resolution, browser. Most people don't realise that those 3 alone can identify specific users (not everyone uses that exact resolution, with that OS, with that browser version - and the privacy browsers are even better, they're the odd ones out and easily identifiable in a crowd of Chrome and Firefox).

There's always a risk that a rogue admin could abuse this information. And there are forums where that's happened. There are also forums that have been hacked and had user information revealed. Some of those we can help, some of those we can't and can only mop up afterwards.

And I haven't even gotten onto the most basic aspect of the website. Everything above is stored in a database on our web host. Anyone with access to that web host, or that database, can see it all, including everything you've ever posted. And private messages too. Over my 20+ years administrating forums I've seen passwords to other websites, email accounts, and all sorts shared in private messages between users. All unencrypted, sitting in an SQL dump file.

As I said before, there are some people here who need to seriously re-consider what they're posting on an RPG discussion website.

That's interesting but doesn't address credit card/payment information that Infinitron mentioned. Who exactly has access to that? I'm not concerned with insane admin doxxing me and showing in front of my doors to kill me, but one rogue admin with credit card info can be a problem. I'm OK with you personally having my info, but I'm concerned about other staff members.

I'm pretty sure DU and Taluntard have payment info, dunno about Infinitron.

 

[Stavrophore]

They don't have your credit card number[paypal only shows four last numbers afaik] or CVV number.

 

[A horse of course]

They don't have your credit card number[paypal only shows four last numbers afaik] or CVV number.

DU has my irl name and address and a bunch of other stuff. That's why I'm always so respectful and polite to him.

 

[GrafvonMoltke]

DU has my irl name and address and a bunch of other stuff. That's why I'm always so respectful and polite to him.

Anyone who spends five minutes in the shoutbox has this information.

 

[A horse of course]

DU has my irl name and address and a bunch of other stuff. That's why I'm always so respectful and polite to him.

Anyone who spends five minutes in the shoutbox has this information.

That's why I'm so respectful and polite in shoutbox.