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Prester Jane
Nov 4, 2008

by Hand Knit

The Kingfish posted:

SA is actually the perfect platform for off site attacks.

E: the only reason we don't do it is because Lowtax says we aren't allowed.

An oft-forgotten chapter in this boards early history is that the reason Lowtax expressly forbids SA from organizing attacks on other websites is because we were one of the very first communities to do so and many of the tactics that are in current use in the broader internet were first developed here. Organizing offsite attacks was one of the major sources for comedy in the early days of this forum and "Goonrushing" a website used to refer to organized trolling just as much as it referred to crashing a small website with unexpected traffic.

As you can imagine though this practice attracted nasty pieces of work who just wanted to hurt people and caused stupid amounts of drama both publicly and behind the scens as Lowtax dealt with the fallout. So he banned organized offsite trolling. Much as there was a wave of Goons who migrated from SA to 4chan after pedo manga/anime was banned, there was a similar but smaller wave of Goons that migrated over to 4chan after offsite trolling (and later Helldumping) was banned.

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