The timing is interesting- the weekend of spez's wedding, when all the official people would be gone. Also, on a Sunday night, to compound the problem.
Just like 911! When the attacks occurred during a "war game attack" on the WTC and other buildings with all of the nation's military involved in the game!
7/7! same shit...a REAL attack happened in the London Tubes when a police were busy with a "staged simulation" attack!
Maybe the same fuckers tried to take down reddit, the bastards!
It is weird that the infectious comments happened amidst a torrent of other comments, almost as if the perpetrators KNEW that a lot of people would be commenting articles on Reddit at that exact time!
Obama did it. Here's my proof:
Born: 8/4/61. Assumed Office: 1/20/09. Reddit Attack: 9/27/09.
8+4+61= 73. 1+20+9= 30. 9+27+9= 45
73-30+45=88.
Divide that by two, you get 44, and guess who our 44th president is...OBAMA!
I was in the thread when it happened! I could see the comments -- BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM all the way down. I immediately knew it wasn't a person commenting. Please help us by supporting Families and Victims for 9/27 Truth
I remember getting a call from the sysadmin, telling me they were not sure they were going to be able to patch the exploit, and I said we've had such a terrible loss of data, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it.
The popular response to this self post reinforces my opinion that serious participation in reddit is pointless. Those who consider "conspiracy theories" to be a joke are equally privileged community members with those who are seriously concerned about possible concealed malfeasance by the powerful.
Despite my opinion of reddit, I can't get myself to stop visiting. Sigh.
Sorry, but I feel no guilt at such puns, considering the lives that are being lost everyday in Iraq over a war on an idea (a.k.a. the war on terror just in case you didn't get it, and no, you are not reading capitalization errors, those are on purpose).
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32 [deleted] 2009-09-28
Guys, it wasn't a piece of javascript, it was a missile. Be honest, have you EVER seen javascript do this before? Well? There ya go.
32 HunterTV 2009-09-28
Anyway, javascript is not hot enough to melt CSS.
30 fr-josh 2009-09-28
The timing is interesting- the weekend of spez's wedding, when all the official people would be gone. Also, on a Sunday night, to compound the problem.
10 [deleted] 2009-09-28
Just like 911! When the attacks occurred during a "war game attack" on the WTC and other buildings with all of the nation's military involved in the game!
7/7! same shit...a REAL attack happened in the London Tubes when a police were busy with a "staged simulation" attack!
Maybe the same fuckers tried to take down reddit, the bastards!
4 RandomStalker 2009-09-28
It is weird that the infectious comments happened amidst a torrent of other comments, almost as if the perpetrators KNEW that a lot of people would be commenting articles on Reddit at that exact time!
3 fr-josh 2009-09-28
It must be a conspiracy, then! Your logic proves it!
3 levilarrington 2009-09-28
It is on the heels of someone posting how their security bans safe users who never know they're banned.
19 Antebios 2009-09-28
WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!
There, someone had to say it.
4 tupidflorapope 2009-09-28
The call is coming from INSIDE THE HOUSE! GET OUT!
17 mworthley 2009-09-28
Obama did it. Here's my proof:
Born: 8/4/61. Assumed Office: 1/20/09. Reddit Attack: 9/27/09.
8+4+61= 73. 1+20+9= 30. 9+27+9= 45
73-30+45=88.
Divide that by two, you get 44, and guess who our 44th president is...OBAMA!
Now that's how you do a conspiracy
edit: formatting.
7 sfgeek 2009-09-28
OLIGARHY.
5 mworthley 2009-09-28
Ha! He stole our "C" too!
2 sfgeek 2009-09-28
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-D_S7WOnjg
5 deckman 2009-09-28
He's clearly guilty.
2 Hangly 2009-09-28
You shoulda left off at 88.
1 mworthley 2009-09-28
why?
1 Hangly 2009-09-28
88 = HH = Heil Hitler
I guess I'm the only one who has a Stormfront account :/
Okay, heh heh put down the pipe wrench I can find my own way out.
15 [deleted] 2009-09-28
We have to ask questions.
11 SuperStalin 2009-09-28
It didn't happen. I was there.
4 obamajoker 2009-09-28
Yes, master.
7 [deleted] 2009-09-28
I was in the thread when it happened! I could see the comments -- BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM all the way down. I immediately knew it wasn't a person commenting. Please help us by supporting Families and Victims for 9/27 Truth
3 mvlazysusan 2009-09-28
And when I got to the red-velope and clicked,,, the hole page was destroyed,,, java script everywhere, nothing was recognizable!
4 blackyoda 2009-09-28
It was an experiment to see who would hover over or click it on purpose after the threat was revealed.
2 [deleted] 2009-09-28
well, I did.
three or four times.
2 baggins 2009-09-28
suitable username I see.
3 senorcool 2009-09-28
Nostradamus predicted this attack to the exact month!! We all should have been prepared!!!
3 eromitlab 2009-09-28
I remember getting a call from the sysadmin, telling me they were not sure they were going to be able to patch the exploit, and I said we've had such a terrible loss of data, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it.
3 Superconducter 2009-09-28
This is very un-funny.
2 Ra____ 2009-09-28
If you look really close at the bottom of the javascript you can see a dome shaped thing...
2 destraht 2009-09-28
This would be funny if it weren't so damn serious. Laughter is the new Anger. auxiv, I'll be watching you.
2 treebright 2009-09-28
The popular response to this self post reinforces my opinion that serious participation in reddit is pointless. Those who consider "conspiracy theories" to be a joke are equally privileged community members with those who are seriously concerned about possible concealed malfeasance by the powerful.
Despite my opinion of reddit, I can't get myself to stop visiting. Sigh.
1 Hangly 2009-09-28
I was there, I saw the whole thing.
0 [deleted] 2009-09-28
...and then I witnessed all those comments collapse mainly due to the propogation of a recursive script...
...the loss of all those comments, and the moderators said they couldn't handle the load, we just said run the scripts, so they ran the script...
...
0 malique 2009-09-28
it always fell happier when you don't know much, or so you think??
-1 ghibmmm 2009-09-28
Does anybody else think it's maybe in bad taste to conflate the death of 4000+ (?) people with some cheap hack on reddit?
2 [deleted] 2009-09-28
Death is a part of life. Get over it.
3 ghibmmm 2009-09-28
I'm not offended by it personally, but I can't speak for everyone else...
1 tejmin 2009-09-28
Sorry, but I feel no guilt at such puns, considering the lives that are being lost everyday in Iraq over a war on an idea (a.k.a. the war on terror just in case you didn't get it, and no, you are not reading capitalization errors, those are on purpose).
1 ghibmmm 2009-09-28
The joke is at the expense of those who wish to expose the "war on terror" for the debauched money-grab it is.
2 tejmin 2009-09-28
yes, i realize that. and no, i dont think its bad taste. at least not in this thread, however unawakened people would consider it so.
0 runT1ME 2009-09-28
Yeah, actually, I do.
-4 idlenation 2009-09-28
WAKE UP SHEEPLE
-4 Knossus 2009-09-28
ZOMG the cake is a lie
-14 CashOverAss 2009-09-28
You conspiracy theorist nut jobs never stop amazing me.
2 CashOverAss 2009-09-28
Shit, I was JKing, but ok, keep downvoting. hahaha
5 deckman 2009-09-28
Conspiracy theorizing is serious business.