MASSIVE VANDAL ATTACK Tues Evening May 10

[Evil Tim]

Originally Posted by MoviePropMaster2008

I don't necessarily buy the random "Spam attack" theory. It's too relentless. It may be a spam attack that was generated randomly but I suspect ill will by a PERSON, perhaps someone who was banned a while ago. It just seems too intent on targeting us over and over and over again. Just a feeling, no basis in fact here. Just a thought.

I used to admin a much bigger site; certainly a human can register this fast, especially if they have, say, an entire college computer lab that isn't occupied or a service that assigns them a different IP every time they connect (we had a guy who we ultimately had to ban the ISP for most of Australia to get, then the story got picked up by the Aussie press and he made the mistake of posting from his school; apparently our spammer was summoned to the headmaster's office and he never bothered us again).

The trouble is, I can't see why an angry human would be spamming something so utterly banal as thankyous rather than, say, replacing the image on template:incomplete with a shock site image or replacing high-traffic gun images with really gross porn. It's just too minor to strike me as the work of a dedicated vandal rather than a mindless bot that isn't working the way it should.