Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3909720

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https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3909802

ulvir posted:

you do not, in fact gotta (checks notes) hand it to the cool and good calm hitlers kramering in having a normal one. just beyond the pale, do the needful. Sad!

ulvir posted:

you do not, in fact gotta (checks notes) hand it to the cool and good calm hitlers kramering in having a normal one. just beyond the pale, do the needful. Sad!

lobster shirt posted:

kramering really is one of the dumbest forums words. do not like!

Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:

Fungah! posted:

genuinely gettin sad thinking about a future where ligma's played out

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

What were the specifics around PPJs saga? I'm assuming they have been mentioned at some point in the thread, so if anyone has a link I can just go read it myself it. Were there screenshots or something? Were they saying Nazi things to try and infiltrate it? How/why did they need to infiltrate a Nazi discord?

Scarodactyl posted:

No they didn't.

Literally A Person posted:

They say my code phrase and I start corralling posters like a god damned buckaroo

rydiafan posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVTmxC_pVqg

Fungah! posted:

genuinely gettin sad thinking about a future where ligma's played out

Rad-daddio posted:

I thought PPJ just got caught hanging out with a discord full of dumbasses and spun up the whole spy gimmick to cover for it.

sweet geek swag posted:

The one person who I actually know vouched for him was Koalas March so my guess is yeah it was all just furious backpeddling.

Antivehicular posted:

"I was a deep cover agent infiltrating the Nazi hive using my known forum identity, linked to my real SA account" still cracks me up. It's like if Bond gave Blofeld a scan of his passport and driver's license and let him make an announcement over the PA before sneaking into the volcano base.

16-bit Butt-Head posted:

ppj got caught saying some very racist and disgusting poo poo in that discord he wasnt undercover at all

Scarodactyl posted:

This is actually pretty much what Bond does half the time.

Heath posted:

PPJ realizing he has to go undercover to protect the posters of his subforum, he goes into the basement of his house wearing nothing but a tank top, carrying a bottle of bourbon and a single kitchen stool, pulls aside an inconspicuous rug to reveal a trap door containing an attaché case. With great hesitation he pops the latch and slowly opens it to reveal a stockpile of racist memes and a paper on black-on-black crime statistics

Frank Frank posted:

KM, the unquestionable paragon of diversity and inclusion went to bat for an admin(?) caught posting Nazi poo poo on discord. Gotta admit that’s weird as heck

Also can anyone here explain to me why a somethingawful.com mod would need become Serpico in the first place? What did SA stand to gain?

Antivehicular posted:

I didn't know it was a video-game server, but yeah, "politics mod makes up elaborate cover story, actually just wanted to play Rust" makes more sense, especially if you assume PPJ was a real racist idiot and not just trying to fit in (which, yeah, obvs).

Party Plane Jones posted:

Hello, you're all going to be extremely pissed at me in this thread.
You have great reasons to be. All those posts or screenshots in the other thread? Definitely me; all that dumb poo poo in there is something I've said in the course of this. Why?

Because I actually like this careening mess of a site, even though it absolutely loving hates me. Many of you posting here hate me.

Way back in the wilds of late 2017/2018, people who frequented the Lowtax Gaming Garbage discord might have noticed something: it was poo poo. It was absolute poo poo.



In between the various links of horrendous porn, racial slurs, and other heinous poo poo there was one thing that stuck out: a discord invite, by someone in it. I didn't think much of it at the time and until Lowtax came back to do Gaming Garbage on a much greater scale I rarely looked at the Gaming Garbage discord.

That was a mistake. While lowtax was trying to outlay the problems with his spine his discord was a festering shithole.



Finally another goon and I got tired of this. We messaged Lowtax and said, "hey can you like, uh, just delete the gaming garbage discord and remake it if you're going to use it going forward for streams or patreon or anything going forward. as it is it's complete dogshit full of posts and posters you really would not be associated with any sort of donation drive (the only people posting comments on it are people who were permabanned from SA as it is)"

He said, wait, what the gently caress? Point me to them and I'll punt their asses off the server.
I said that was too much work and you wouldn't be able to get everybody. So bring GDN in.
GDN is, if you don't know, the Goon Discord Network. In many goon discords, it's a little bot. You join and it says you need to auth. If you're a permabanned poster, you can't auth, because you can't access your forum account.

We finally get through that and zzzurp. A bunch of people couldn't post in there anymore. They didnt't have access. Before we deleted the discord chat I saved a copy and started looking through it. Found a couple discord invite links, clicked 'em, they seemed innocuous enough. Clicked one; there's all these people from Lowtax's discord in there. I look at it and at first glance it seems like a standard gaming discord.

Eventually as time goes on I forgot. I got kicked for idling.

In march of 2019 the D&D mods had a crisis we had to deal with. It's 2 in the morning and the only admin on at the time is guyovich. Chairmaster had posted his suicide note in both D&D and E/N.

Through absolutely titanic effort on the part of Lightning Knight we contacted enough people and got enough of fire lit underneath the regional PD's rear end that eventually Chairmaster came back to us with a message that he didn't go through with it. I can't than Lightning Knight enough for going through the amount of time and contacts that he did to save this kid's life.

In the course of trying to stop Chairmaster from killing himself, we spammed everyone. Slack, IRC, Twitter, Discord, you name it we hit it. So we formed contacts.

Some of you may remember, last year there was a security scare. Full Goon Discord Network wide: everybody was told to kill the bot and kick it from their server. Why?

Because somebody hardcoded the bot discord token into it.

Well, what does this mean you might say?

It means that on every discord network it was connected to, whoever had access to it could access every chat the bot had access to.

This is a problem.
Eventually it gets found out that hey, it might be these people. Wait, what's this discord named?

Oh. I was in there at one point.

So I pulled out the saved copy of gaming garbage and guess what, the discord invite still works.

They say 'wait, didn't we kick this guy? Where did he come from?'

I said 'from lowtax's awful discord'; (it's true isn't it?)

I start actually reading the discord and talking on the discord. And, it's not great. In broad strokes, it's got some of the greatest hits of Something Awful's permaban catalog. From the guy who (supposedly) carved another poster's name into his skin to the twice banned neonazi, it's a doozy.

But I'm again, getting ahead of myself.

TFR at one point had a discord. It was similarly, also, poo poo.



Eventually, it gets deleted. Why?

Well, meet Aran.


Aran is a delightful character. Helldumped and permabanned off of Something Awful, he later rejoins the forums. Some of you might recognize his later name, PCOS Bill. Punted again, he rejoins the TFR discord. Gets it deleted because solely because he's there.

But that's not all!


Aran, the Something Sensitive siterunner, has now joined with the other group. Such a delightful group of people have found true love in each other's arms.

Why is any of this poo poo important to you? Because the only way to remove people who are causing trouble for our posters is by unmasking them and tracking where
they pop up.

Why the gently caress am I in there on the name I use for other poo poo? Well, honestly? I couldn't get another invite that wouldn't be suspicious. I only got in because the Gaming Garbage invite was still active, which I used with my original account so it'd line up. The only major time there were giant open invites to blend in with was when they decided to drop that in the FYAD QCS threads.



Why am I typing all this dumb poo poo? Because the only way to fit in with a group like this, is to post like this. They talk about anime, I'll talk about anime. Guns of the world, sure. Horrendous awful disgusting food concoctions of the 1960s? Yeah.

So what the gently caress does this all mean? Well, thanks to being in there, there have been accounts found out and banned and lies given light so they're addressed. I'm not going to give out specifics as to which people got banned as a result. Helping to prevent further doxxing of one of my fellow mods was an added bonus.

The thing I gotta ask is, where are you getting your links from? Because hey, they definitely figured out it was me.



That was a month ago. I went in and deleted every single of text I had written after I saw that.

Koalas March posted:

I didn't want to have to do this but gently caress it.
Jones helps run a network keeping tabs on chud and Nazi goons. I know some of those people/goons who assist in this, but I am with holding their name(s) for very obvious reasons. Jones has personally come to me with evidence of neonazis doxxing me, skoll in particular, threatening me and telling each other to do poo poo like take pictures of my house, mail me stuff etc. Whenever something heats up off-site and I might be in danger, Jones tells me. I have gigs of data sent to me by Jones whole he was collecting info on them. I've known this for a long, long time. I know which discords he is in and the people he is monitoring in those discords. I know that this info has been collecting over time was/is used to help keep the GDN chud and Nazi free.

I'm doing my best not to be really disheartened by this, but yeah. That's what I know.

razorrozar posted:

MohawkSatan posted:

PPJ's story is legit. I've got the stuff he collected, and it's loving paydirt. Two loving years of logs, usernames, etc. I've barely touched it and I've got 22 usernames (less than half of which have been banned) and several of which I've tracked down and linked to Nazi poo poo elsewhere in less than an hour's work. Hell I've got a name and home address and a google street view screenshot of the Nazi flag in hanging in the front window of one of them.

Ya'll know me. If there was any doubt in my mind I wouldn't be defending him. I'd be calling for him to have a meeting with a guillotine.

MohawkSatan posted:

And all this is why I'm being very very careful with the info I've got, and what I've been managing to dig up. It's going to you mod types (for forums relevant stuff) because

I'm being real goddamned sure to make sure that everything fits before I even share with mods, because throwing what's basically weaponized information is really really not good. Some dumbass from cspam or something ain't going to use it properly and accuse/doxx the wrong person, or worse. And gods know I don't want that weighing on me.

The only people that will be getting any info on this are a) very limited and closely trusted antifascist if there is something specific I can safely share that will help them keep other people safe and b) mods/admins. Aside from that, there's one other person who's helping me do SA focused digging, and they're only getting a possible or related username and a request to hunt out posts from that person or find what they've changed their username to.

edit: to be clear, unless I'm 100% positive, nobody gets poo poo, and if I am that positive I'm going to be very very very loving careful with what I DO give and to who. Honestly, there's vastly greater odds of me getting doxxed than me doxxing someone else.

Edit2: requested by other folks for security reasons.

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Frank Frank posted:

Serious question but did PPJ make anyone else aware of his daring undercover mission? Could anyone actually vouch for the fact that they knew that he was spying on Nazis before the whole thing went down?