4chan Users Try to DDoS Tumblr, Tumblrs Raid 4chan in Revenge

http://www.urlesque.com/2010/11/12/4chan-ddos-tumblr-raid/

by ssclafani • 16 years ago

73 33 16 years ago

Tautology• 16 years ago

This will end well.

tav• 16 years ago

Anyone know the origins of "What is Air?". It seems to be yet another meme that's passed me by, but Googling doesn't yield much in the way of an explanation — just lots of people on Tumblr saying it and finding it seemingly funny... http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/WHAT+IS+AIR%3F

cmelbye3• 16 years ago

It's normally used when reblogging a photo that makes you laugh so hard that you can't breathe. I'm not sure of its origin, but it's pretty widely used on Tumblr.

blntechie2• 16 years ago

Going to be fun for the neutrals. I neither use Tumblr or 4chan. Let them cancel out each other. :-)

4chan can just block registration of new users on 15th to avoid this.

cmelbye3• 16 years ago

Uh, what? The whole point of 4chan is that you're anonymous, no registration needed.

noarchy• 16 years ago

4chan founder Christopher Poole's TED talk on "The case for anonymity online"

http://www.ted.com/talks/christopher_m00t_poole_the_case_for...

mishmash2• 16 years ago

You're not anonymous to admins, only to users. Every post is still associated with a big fat naked IP address and it's a single click to ban a user of a specific post.

blntechie2• 16 years ago

Ha, how ignorant I was? Thanks for enlightening. As I mentioned before, I have never been to 4chan.

zavulon• 16 years ago

What's the reason behind this? Usually there's some kind of a backstory...

drivingmenuts• 16 years ago

4chan is that dumbass kid who releases bees into the classroom just to laugh at everyone who doesn't want to get stung.

If there's a backstory, it's probably something that everyone else would shrug off and move on with their lives, but for whatever reason, the sociopaths at 4chan cannot.

davidamcclain• 16 years ago

Something about 4chan /b/ inventing memes that then end up on tumblr unattributed.

(I don't know that any particular memes were named in this allegation.)

clinton• 16 years ago

Wow, way to fall for the trollbait. I wonder which side will prove Godwin's law first?

fliph• 16 years ago

This reminds me of "wars" kids in my neighborhood would have when I was about ten years old. Each group of kids would think up highly elaborate plans of subterfuge, sophisticated camouflage, and spying, that, when executed, basically consisted of throwing some moldy walnuts over a fence at the other groups of kids.

What they both have in common are groups of children with too much time on their hands.

reinhardt• 16 years ago

Walter said it best: "8 year olds, dude".

elbenshira• 16 years ago

Is this high school? I don't understand these things. Why would you destroy your time, resources, and sense of humanity for this childish crap?

GHFigs• 16 years ago

Is this high school?

Yes. Though Tumblr and 4chan both have older users, the ones that participate in this kind of thing "seriously" are generally of that cliquish high school mindset and narrow worldview characteristic of but not limited to teenagers. Ironically, it's that same earnestness that provokes raids like this.

Why would you destroy your time, resources, and sense of humanity for this childish crap?

Lulz. Srsly.

younata• 16 years ago

One of the guys in my D&D group is of this mentality.

I hope he matures soon.

tbrownaw• 16 years ago

So how exactly does one raid a crapflood, anyhow?

> Raiding 4chan? Like one /b/ user says, "Isn't that like pissing into an ocean of piss? What's the point?"

groaner• 16 years ago

They may have taken a cue from xkcd:

http://xkcd.com/591/

cantbecool• 16 years ago

kids will be kids

srgseg• 16 years ago

Can anyone suggest how to defend against these type of attacks?

Is it simply a case of rate limiting by IP? If so, anyone suggest an easy way of doing this (I assume limiting at the web server level is not good enough?)

serge2k• 16 years ago

Tumblr is funny.

4chan is more DDOS idiocy.

villiros• 16 years ago

I'm actually expecting this whole thing to turn out to be a fantastic case of guerilla marketing by tumblr. It just seems too hilariously perfect.

SwaroopH• 16 years ago

Has this something to do with Children's Day?

mambodog• 16 years ago

The planned trolling tactic of the Tumblr group, "SPAM /B/ WITH KITTENS", seems... flawed. Are they not aware of the origins of lolcats?

redthrowaway• 16 years ago

4chan will fire back with cat gore.

Jach• 16 years ago

Won't someone please think of the kittens?

petercooper• 16 years ago

Tumblr hardly needs any help in being slow in my experience.

bostonvaulter2• 16 years ago

Why do we even have this on Hacker news?

fhars• 16 years ago

Because it's sunday and the regulars are not procrastinating at work.

4chan Users Try to DDoS Tumblr, Tumblrs Raid 4chan in Revenge

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