Corruption in gaming journalism discussion and update thread. - General

[QUOTE=Durrsly;46913740]Holy shit I hope this isn't what's happening. [editline]12th January 2015[/editline] I thought 8chan was in the Philippines?[/QUOTE] I honestly doubt it sincerely, /b/ is hardly a good source.

Hotwheels was tweeting about how Cloudflare was sending him complaints from burner e-mails.

[QUOTE=Durrsly;46913740]Holy shit I hope this isn't what's happening. [editline]12th January 2015[/editline] I thought 8chan was in the Philippines?[/QUOTE] Hotwheels is in the Philippines for business. He's over there working with the 2ch guys. 8chan is US based

[QUOTE=Mr. N;46913728]I'm seeing /b/ posts about how it's being taken down by feds or something. I have yet to see sources though.[/QUOTE] If it were seized, it would have looked like the megaupload page with the FBI sign on there.

Weird, it is still fully functional for me. Last post on /v/ made around a minute ago. Maybe it is something only the Americans and Canadians (judging by your flags) can't connect anymore? EDIT: Could still post. Strange. Others are saying that the whole address leads to a redirected ad site now. Something is really fishy here.

[QUOTE=Jordax;46913831]Weird, it is still fully functional for me. Last post on /v/ made around a minute ago. Maybe it is something only the Americans and Canadians (judging by your flags) can't connect anymore?[/QUOTE] I live in Ireland currently and its down for me.

[QUOTE=Jordax;46913831] EDIT: Could still post. Strange. Others are saying that the whole address leads to a redirected ad site now. Something is really fishy here.[/QUOTE] Maybe some shady ad got through and is redirecting people. Who here is using Adblock? I have 8chan as one of my whitelisted sites. [editline]12th January 2015[/editline] Hotwheels should be awake soon according to the twitter link posted, so we'll know then. If he isn't already trying to fight to get it back.

[QUOTE=Durrsly;46913882]Maybe some shady ad got through and is redirecting people. Who here is using Adblock? I have 8chan as one of my whitelisted sites. [editline]12th January 2015[/editline] Hotwheels should be awake soon according to the twitter link posted, so we'll know then. If he isn't already trying to fight to get it back.[/QUOTE] 8chan is also one of my whitelisted sites and I'm having no trouble posting

[QUOTE=Xubs;46913916]It's probably DNS poisoning. It's where you trick clients into accepting spoofed DNS records, sending them to the wrong page. It's possible to trick clients into thinking you ARE the DNS server, rather than just tricking their records, meaning you can spread the incorrect record for longer.[/QUOTE] So if it happens to me, how would I fix that?

Well for now I cleared my cache but I'm going to wait until I read it's clear to go back. I'm also scanning my PC even though Avast didn't freak out nor did Chrome try to download anything. [editline]12th January 2015[/editline] It was working on my iPad but idk if it was just cached. At least I was able to save the image I wanted to save.

[QUOTE=Fangz;46911171]Oh wow, Buzzfeed can't even keep the reason it was deleted straight. They claimed it was marked as spam, and now fully restored (it wasn't), and now they are saying she deleted it 2 hours before it was marked as spam and refusing to restore it. If you are going to lie, you should stick to one story. Also anti-GG said something stupid: [img]http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b196/Starmenclock/Mobile%20Uploads/image_zps5f8b1d3a.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] Full McIntosh went stupid as well. [img]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B7L7dRUCEAAKI4d.jpg[/img]

Absolutely disgusting behavior.

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[url]https://twitter.com/infinitechan[/url] For recent happenings about the site

[QUOTE=Athlias;46914625][URL]https://twitter.com/infinitechan[/URL] For recent happenings about the site[/QUOTE] how much butthurt do you have to get 8chan's domain taken away via ICANN

Wait are they honestly ripping on victims of terrorist attacks, do they support censorship that much?

[url=http://topsy.com/analytics?q2=%40thequinnspiracy%20AND%20%23gamergate&via=Topsy&period=6%20months]Here's some proof that Gamergate has reduced it's focus on Quinn greatly.[/url] It's been already added in the url already, but if you include "&period=6%20months" at the end of a topsy url it extends the range of the data.

I really hope Hotwheels can get it back. He does not deserve this shit.

Well, for the time being you can just edit your hosts file in a few seconds to fix it: [url]https://4zip.pw/8chan.txt[/url] worst case they just get another 8chan.something domain.

[QUOTE=Mattk50;46914962]worst case they just get another 8chan.something domain.[/QUOTE] And that's what's happening, except the Japanese site is going to get sacrificed: [url]https://twitter.com/infinitechan/status/554823449198088193[/url]

a ton of low grade trolleys are rolling around in the 8chan irc right now. A lot of people are really scared of 8chan succeeding.

[QUOTE=RayvenQ;46911961][url]https://archive.today/0iVWQ[/url] Archived version, and to archive, just go to [url]https://archive.today/[/url] and paste the url of the page you want to archive.[/QUOTE] There's also a bookmarklet on the site which makes archiving [B]extremely[/B] convenient. [editline]13th January 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=CoolKingKaso;46913717][url=https://twitter.com/Drybones5/status/554768063632261120]Here's some info.[/url] Damn, Hotwheels can't get a break at all.[/QUOTE] It's possible to mess very badly with domain registrations if the call-in security protocol lets you guess personal data in some way from elsewhere. Like the last four digits of a saved credit card you can social-engineer from Amazon.com and (could) use to break into iCloud.

its heerrreeeeeee [video=youtube;1brZ1EoIqig]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1brZ1EoIqig[/video]

[QUOTE=Durrsly;46913775]Hotwheels was tweeting about how Cloudflare was sending him complaints from burner e-mails.[/QUOTE] That's probably how they got the real IP. [editline]13th January 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=Jordax;46913831]Weird, it is still fully functional for me. Last post on /v/ made around a minute ago. Maybe it is something only the Americans and Canadians (judging by your flags) can't connect anymore? EDIT: Could still post. Strange. Others are saying that the whole address leads to a redirected ad site now. Something is really fishy here.[/QUOTE] DNS changes take (a lot of) time to propagate, a site association could be cached a week or longer. [editline]13th January 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=Xubs;46913916]It's probably DNS poisoning. It's where you trick clients into accepting spoofed DNS records, sending them to the wrong page. It's possible to trick clients into thinking you ARE the DNS server, rather than just tricking their records, meaning you can spread the incorrect record for longer. It's the only explanation I have for why some are able to connect and others aren't.[/QUOTE] This [I]should[/I] be impossible on a large scale since the introduction of DNSSec(?).

[QUOTE=JeanLuc761;46914257]Full McIntosh went stupid as well. [img]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B7L7dRUCEAAKI4d.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] All it needs now, is the Intel Inside logo.

8chan.co is currently up for me, either it didn't propagate so far or he got the domain back.

Thanks for posting the video btw! If anyone wants to ask me some questions, feel free to shoot them my way. Also if you're trying to access 8ch and it's not working, update your hosts file.

/gamergate/ guide on how to get 8chan back [url]https://8ch.net/gamergate/res/210624.html[/url] [QUOTE]WINDOWS USERS: 1. C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc 2. open hosts in an elevated notepad (run as admin) 3. Add the following lines to the bottom 104.20.3.87 8chan.co 104.20.3.87 media.8chan.co 104.20.3.87 h.8chan.co 4. restart or flush DNS 5. don't forget to remove the lines when you're done. UNIX USERS: you should know how to do this via /etc/hosts file MAC USERS: :^)[/QUOTE]

milo rips open a new asshole [video=youtube;CcxRCUwAiVg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcxRCUwAiVg[/video] full recording: [url]https://soundcloud.com/rupert-myers/gamergate-chat-at-shoreditch[/url]

[QUOTE=Xubs;46915276]I've been seeing [I]a lot[/I] of people pass around and retweet the screencap of Jonathan McIntosh retweeting that guy supporting the Charlie Hebdo incident, all laughing at how stupid the original poster is with McIntosh's little name in the corner for all to see. Like, way more people than just people involved in Gamergate. I hope this is where Jonathan McIntosh's credibility starts to tank with more people than just vocal gamers.[/QUOTE] I noticed on reddit, a lot of people were making fun of McIntosh for the Wolfenstein difficulty menu tweet. Like, he's definitely running the risk of blowing his credibility. He's one of those people that should just stay off twitter. He's having a field day with #GamerGate because he can say whatever he wants and get an egostroke for being a "good ally." He's not as big of an egotist joke as Kluwe or Chu, but the things he has to say about Hotline Miami/Smash Bros/etc are just clueless.