Dies to Removal

script kiddies.

Called it!

10 points to me!

hannes rolled a sneak check

And apparently he rolled a natural 20, while I rolled a natural 1 on my Perception check to catch him. =/

*watches Fahey*

Roll a Perception check.

Actually, my point had been that if anything, banned former members were a more likely culprit than Anonymous was. Not that it was the exact answer.

As I said, it has the hallmarks of script kiddies, if it had been an attempt at a coordinated attack. Not a group of super 1337 h4xx0rz

Nai and I had been talking off-and-on during the whole debacle that happened recently. Galspanic, Megs, and Nai are the only admins I trust, and I expressed that sentiment to Nai. I never had contact with ER until my suspension appeal in which he basically said, "Yeah, there's no concensus on it you should be suspended, but fuck you you're suspended anyways!"

The point of the Q&A had been to try to narrow down the scope of the questions being asked and give a single post (or several, if necessary) where people could have asked questions they wanted answers to, and the admins would provide the answers. It would have been neater, and if there's anything that we have seen, it's when the admins are able to answer people in a manner like that (most recently, the summit they had with Belgareth that ended up repairing a lot of the issues people had with WCT), the shit tends to die down. That had been my intent.
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As I said, Nai had been all for it, and from what I understand Galspanic and Megs had been as well. I can only surmise that ER was against it, but as I said I never truted him to do the right thing anyways.

As an aside, it looks like a Google crawler came upon a malicious ad, and not something with direct access to the forums. So, yeah...someone needs to be on top of that.

Is there a reason I shouldn't be talking to the admins?

Well I find it odd that you are defending Hannes, that's all. I mean, not even the MTGS admins have been able to contact him for pressing matters about the site, or at least I have not heard of them getting a "BRB, IRL stuff" message from him.

I can only pass on what Nai told me, and even then I have to be relatively vague in what I say because I told Nai that I wouldn't divulge what he told me. Journalistic integrity, credibility, whatever.

I was actually supposed to have a sit-down and a Q&A with the admins scheduled by now. Nai and I had talked about it, and Galspanic and Megiddo were supposed to be all for it. The only one I understood that was against it was ExpiredRascals, but considering how I didn't trust him since
my appeal to my most-recent suspension, I wasn't too surprised. I was hoping to be able to help put this shit behind them, but it seems they either forgot or aren't going to do it.

So you have a contact in Curse, and you know Hannes personally? (Real question, not trolling you)

I do have a contact in Curse, yes. As for knowing Hannes, I do not. What with having this thing called "The Atlantic Ocean" between us...

Hannes isn't "absent" from the site. Right now, he's going through some real-life transitions I am, quite literally, NOT at liberty to divulge other than what is going on for him takes far more precedence over a site dedicated to Magic: the Gathering. He has been working on the site in his very little spare time, but he is still around.

As for the malware issue, Chrome is currently blocking the site, and I won't be surprised if Firefox and IE are doing the same. Truth be told, it's not a site that would be targeted under normal circumstances by a group of hackers. This has the
hallmarks of a bunch of children, and possibly people who were banned during the recent sweep.

Whatever, dude. If hanes is not absent, why hasn't this cleared up yet? I think the data speaks for itself. This is EXACTLY the same thing that happened to MT, so....

So because it hasn't been cleared up immediately, it must be that he's absent!

I mean, there's no way in hell he has a social life as well. Or that he might be having dinner right now after work?

Hannes isn't "absent" from the site. Right now, he's going through some real-life transitions I am, quite literally, NOT at liberty to divulge other than what is going on for him takes far more precedence over a site dedicated to Magic: the Gathering. He has been working on the site in his very little spare time, but he is still around.

As for the malware issue, Chrome is currently blocking the site, and I won't be surprised if Firefox and IE are doing the same. Truth be told, it's not a site that would be targeted under normal circumstances by a group of hackers. This has the hallmarks of a bunch of children, and possibly people who were banned during the recent sweep.