We get the faulty ones from the French - after they've used the good ones to seduce all our women :).

Makes sense that the English would love a food you don't need teeth to eat. :P

Hey, no bumping! :)


...yeah, I can upvote tiny however I want, that troll still manages to drop him by five overnight. And time's running out. If Tiny loses his last star, that asshole has a literal orgasm with pants on.

According to forum guidelines, you guys can set rep values at any point you wish. So until you finally abandon this downrep clusterfuck for good, could you just set tiny's rep value up 2000 points? Thanks.

As you're at it, you might take a look at Alaric's disappearing thread. I suspect someone with an army of alt-account bots is using a script to "downvote and report as spam" in connection with the Alaric username.

His thread outside the general forum is just fine, I doubt it's a script.

If it's a user script like the ones I created during the time of the big spam wave that is totally makes sense. It has to be triggered somehow, so I guess the bad guy is checking only the general forum. I could write a script that does exactly that and I also wouldn't bother to let it loose on every single subforum. Because you can only run the script from an open browser tab. And switching pages destroys the script's context (although with something like TamperMonkey you could automatically run it on every page you open).

It would be interesting to see what happened if the "deleted thread #xxx" fell from the front page of the forum. My guess it would survive this way, because the abuser is probably running the script only on General Discussion page 1, or only on pages they visit, like outlined above.

Everything else would mean a lot more effort.

It's not a script.

It's these assholes!

Makes sense.

I guess we'll never know for certain if it's a script or not.

Or this one.

It's application certainly is.

It actually did go off the front page once or twice. I was pretty certain (and hopeful) that at that point it would just wither in obscurity, but no, they found it and they deleted it.

I think they are using Tom's script from the spamwars, but beyond that I believe it's human intervention deleting alaric's thread.
One, you can only sign in three times before the captcha comes up, and while I haven't actually tested it I presume it takes more votes than that to delete a thread so a bot couldn't do it all themselves.
Two, I have seen it disappear without being low rated (suggesting a script that just straight up hit the spam report) and being low rated too, meaning at least some people are doing it the traditional way.
I agree someone isn't systematically scanning the forums for any of alaric's posts and deleting them as that is also not really possible, at worst they are hitting anything on the first few pages of General (or wherever else the culprit might hang out normally and see his posts / threads)

Whatever is going on, I don't think it's one person and I think it has more to do with alaric's personality and behaviour then it is his script.

There is no reason to sign in through the login page every time. In fact there is no reason to use the browser at all. If I was to write a script that would delete the posts I don't like, I'd go about it in the following manner:

1. Register a large amount of accounts.
2. Log in with each of them and use something like Fiddler to capture the info necessary for a successful HTTPS request.
3. Store these individual bits in a data structure.
4. For each datum in data, do a request.

All you'd have to do is provide the url of the post you want to delete and click a button.

I'm still not entirely sure it will let you do that, but let me test it and see.

But even if it is possible... who do you think is responsible? I sure as hell know it's not tinyE, he'll be the first to admit he's not exactly a computer genius.
I'm not sure about who else has a particular grudge against you but that's a lot of effort to go to just to delete some threads (and surely if someone had that power, they would be using it to delete other people's threads too?)
Your thread hangs around for variable amounts of time, sometimes an hour or two, sometimes a few minutes. That's why it seems more like it's being hit by multiple different users as and when they see it (I'll admit I helped delete one to test how long it took to come back and disappear again) then one user doing it on mass or an automated script / bot doing it.

I have no proof and will not accuse anyone based on suspicion and anecdotal evidence.