Jose posted:

does anyone have the post of the goon who hadn't seen their roommate in a while and when they smelled something nasty they finally went in the room and they'd been dead a while?

Danaru posted:

Gumbel2Gumbel posted:

This happened to me in college with a friend of mine, it's a pretty traumatic experience to be honest.

Ariong posted:

Whenever a derail starts up in this forum, there are a few famous (:P) derails that people reference. There's one that I'm not familiar with, the "hot dogs are sandwiches" derail. can someone link me to this derail?

Alaois posted:

"hot dogs are sandwiches" didn't start here, it's something that suddenly became a Thing on the internet a little while ago

Plutonis posted:

Fat former Goon Jeb Lund made a loving column about it

Yvonmukluk posted:

I believe it was actually it was just that one poster (not a mod) who demanded that in a DnD USPOL thread and several of the future TGRS mods/posters were the ones telling him to get bent, back before that forum ever existed.

Tiny Brontosaurus posted:

Yeah I heard but I'm not even looking. gently caress it. I have avs off anyway because that poo poo's annoying. An admin doxxed the credit card that bought my account and my IP info and is passing it around on offsites because they're mad at some person I'm not who was apparently getting them salty before I had so much as a facebook account. I get a pm inbox full of rape and death threats and gore but it's not actionable because "you can't prove anything." I'm not putting my own money into this shithole.

"Don't take the bait." gently caress all of you.

FactsAreUseless posted:

No mods or admins have access to your credit card information, or any other user's. I just want to make sure everyone knows this. We do not see this information at all ever. It is not associated with your account. There are actual federal regulations dealing with how CC information is handled.

negromancer posted:

As someone who worked at Steadfast (where the servers for this site are housed), that isn't true at all.

Subjunctive posted:

How would the hosting provider know? Are they looking at private customer data?

negromancer posted:

Because

a) the actual factual servers are there
b) places like steadfast do more than just swap out hard drives. It was expected to do pretty much whatever was asked by the customers, and the concept of within reason hadn't made it to this company.
c) I work in information security and I'm not an idiot and know more about PCI-DSS and CC processing regulatory stuff than most, considering a former boss helped write the poo poo.

zen death robot posted:

*leans into mic*

WRONG

zen death robot posted:

Negromancer you are painfully full of poo poo and I already called you out on this once. gently caress off before I ban you for spreading bullshit info to scare people.

zen death robot posted:

If you helped write any of that code then you're radium and you should be ashamed of yourself.

negromancer posted:

Especially if the customer is losing their poo poo about something being hosed up on the server and threatening to leave. The higher ups would tell you "just log in as root and fix it".


Literally any steadfast employee has root access, on top of anyone who may have written down passwords or created user accounts on the servers themselves (lol if you think they do password rotations on every server). And of course whoever Lowtax has given access to.


I'm not getting paid to do that, so no.


Maybe. I don't remember every ticket I did for Lowtax, but I feel like I've actually done something on the load balancers at one point.


Yes, and they don't use a direct payment processor. Data is still retained by Lowtax (for accounting purposes). And 2 years ago the CDE was not separated properly from the rest of the environment, so...

The first rule of internet security is physical access is full access. And the reasons why we would log into customers servers is because most hosting customers are dumb as the gently caress. They forget passwords, wipe out data, gently caress up configs, etc

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negromancer posted:

Oh yeah, we basically have root access. They just PXE boot servers that generate a random root password that gets emailed to the customer and automatically put in Ubersmith.

And no I didn't write any code for this forum. But poo poo would go down from time to time (usually at night) and Lowtax would call or email and Id work with him to figure out whatever was hosed up.

But no, there were never any access reviews or any of that poo poo there, which was one of the issues I brought up. It's painfully easy to backdoor clients and no one would know.

FactsAreUseless posted:

Okay, then somebody should investigate Steadfast if they're violating compliance laws. That has nothing to do with the admins here. We do not have access to CC info.

Lowtax posted:

Oh shut the gently caress up, I have never seen anybody's full CC information, much less ever stored it for "accounting purposes" you lying idiot.

zen death robot posted:

That guy was just painfully full of poo poo although I wish FAU would have let him argue with me and Lowtax a bit

Plutonis posted:

Fat former Goon Jeb Lund made a loving column about it

SHY NUDIST GRRL posted:

PPP polling polled about it. (Mexican Americans are most consistent in the belief that hot dog is not a sandwich.)

exploded mummy posted:

gfsincere/negromancer getting banned because he accused Lowtax of loving around with CC info was one of the things that precipitated the creation of the forum

Nenonen posted:

especially if you're the one who your roommates find dead in your room

doubly so if you died while jerking it to some anime

Jose posted:

does anyone have the post of the goon who hadn't seen their roommate in a while and when they smelled something nasty they finally went in the room and they'd been dead a while?

Hogge Wild posted:

my favourite is tiny brontosaur who is a rich white girl larping being black and who doxxes and sends death threats to other goons

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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3585136&userid=109351#post431520391

Sagebrush posted:

I like "Nostradingus"

A Spider Covets posted:

The dead roommate thing came from the GBS lady chat thread. I'm on my phone and can't find it atm but it should be pretty easy to locate.

Dinosaurmageddon posted:

Please (in the future) source your quotes n' facts for the PYF saga thread.

Ban reason:
"Long string of horrible posting spanning multiple threads for a very long time."

Hell, in that case there goes most of GBS!

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

Posting about anime is not against the rules. Please stop reporting people for posting about anime.

Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:

Yeah especially when you just gotta scroll up to where I posted it!!!

timefly posted:

Which page though? That just links to the first page

Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3585136&userid=109351#post431520391

quote:

Now the thing is I'm really not sure if I should call him, I mean, if he is dead no biggie, but if he is not, what am I telling him?

Panfilo posted:

Did Lowtax actually do that though?

Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:

Maybe it doesn't work on the app, but it links to just the posts of the person who posted it, and automatically jump to the first post re: her flatmate.

It's page 3495.

Jose posted:

lol thanks jeffrey. did you have it saved or just know what to search for?

DOWN JACKET FETISH posted:

which is terrible for at least two reasons

Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:

I am the chosen one, destined to unite the tribes and google "somethingawful roommate dead".

Fabricated posted:

I should go through all 133 pages of this thread for it but it's worth repeating if anyone missed it.

Groverhaus, and particularly the Groverhaus thread that precipitated LF being closed.

steinrokkan posted:

Yes, he did, and I believe they responded along the lines of this employee has been terminated due to professional misconduct.

Jerry Cotton posted:

I must agree on this one since if posting anime in the non-anime fori is not bannable then why is anything. Anime is by far the worst thing on this planet if DOTA is not counted.

steinrokkan posted:

Yes, he did, and I believe they responded along the lines of this employee has been terminated due to professional misconduct.

SHY NUDIST GRRL posted:

Why wouldn't we count DotA

Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:

Where did you hear this?