# Remember to turn off visitor access! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 21, 2004, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-to-turn-off-visitor-access/280895 "2004-12-21T01:48:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Viscera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/258eb7/32.png) [@Viscera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Viscera)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-to-turn-off-visitor-access/280895/1 "2004-12-21T01:48:40Z")
Childish, sure. Long thread that has now been linked on many different websites. The story of a guy who got caught with his pants down (literally), and tried to threaten everyone that didn’t believe him that he got scammed. Guy was cybering with someone in an online game, and thought he was in the privacy of his (ingame) home. He wasn’t. **PROBABLY NOT WORKSAFE!** [Link](http://eq2permafrost.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=216&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0) Graphic language, but the ensuing chaos was worth well more than a few chuckles. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-to-turn-off-visitor-access/280895/2 "2004-12-21T11:32:35Z")
It gets better; I can’t normally tolerate the pwn3d crowd, but that thread is hilarious! - read on - the first page is all blustering denial and accusation, and how much it upset his real-life girlfriend, then she shows up to say that she didn’t know she was his girlfriend… ---
**Author:** ![lisacurl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/41988e/32.png) [@lisacurl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisacurl)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-to-turn-off-visitor-access/280895/3 "2004-12-21T16:11:40Z")
I know nothing about this role-playing game or this community, but I am reading that thread and dying laughing. It’s a classic online meltdown. ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-to-turn-off-visitor-access/280895/4 "2004-12-21T16:24:27Z")
1. The link says the page has exceeded its bandwith. 2. What does pwn3d mean? ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-to-turn-off-visitor-access/280895/5 "2004-12-21T16:27:51Z")
> [@UrbanChic](#): > > 1. The link says the page has exceeded its bandwith. Yeah, I see. Oh well. > [@](#): > > 1. What does pwn3d mean? It is “l33tspeak” for owned. As in “Did you see that rocket launcher shot I just killed that guy with? I pwn3d his ass!” ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-to-turn-off-visitor-access/280895/6 "2004-12-21T16:28:15Z")
Google’s only cached the forum frontpage, and Coral cache never picked up the site. Has anyone mirrored it? ---
**Author:** ![tremorviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@tremorviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tremorviolet)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-to-turn-off-visitor-access/280895/7 "2004-12-21T16:28:14Z")
> [@UrbanChic](#): > > 1. What does pwn3d mean? Evidentally, it’s 1337 for “owned”, as in “Dude, you got owned.” I read the thread last night and it took me two pages to figure out what the heck was going on. But it was a fascinating insight into the gaming world (which I’m not familiar with at all)… ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-to-turn-off-visitor-access/280895/8 "2004-12-21T16:43:26Z")
Ah, the story, quoted from a Fark thread: > [@](#): > > Ceciliantas and Bobmarle are two guys who both play EverQuest 2 and had known each other for a while. Ceciliantas had been in Bobmarle’s guild, but he wasn’t well liked, and they kicked him out. Ceciliantas then held a grudge against his former guildmates, including Bobmarle. Because of the rules of the game, there isn’t much that one player can do to hurt each other, so Ceciliantas proceeded to harass Bobmarle and his friends in the only way he could, which was to send rude text messages. > > After a while, this got annoying, so Bobmarle started to plot revenge. > > Meanwhile, Ceciliantas met a girl in the game called Evenstar and the two of them hooked up. They have never met in real life and they do not consider themselves to be boyfriend-girlfriend in real life, just in the game. Ceciliantas had rented a room in a local inn. This is normal: most characters in EverQuest 2 have some kind of house or room that they “live in”, though some people choose not to have one to save money. By default, however, every new character starts off with an inn room. Also, the game is set up so that you can control who has permission to enter your room. You can change the settings at any time so that nobody except yourself can enter, anybody can enter, or you can make a specific list of people who are allowed to enter (and only those people on the list can). The default is that anyone who wants to can visit your room, because the way you buy and sell items in the game is that people come to your room to buy your wares. Ceciliantas never bothered or remembered to change those access settings, so anybody could enter his room at any time. > > After a little while, Bobmarle hatched his plot. He talked a guildmate into creating a new female character named Allannah. Bobmarle then arranged it so that Ceciliantas and Allannah “bumped into each other” in the game. > > As Bobmarle expected he would, Ceciliantas flirted with Allannah, and (because this was a set-up), Allannah flirted back and let herself be “seduced” by him. After he “successfully” seduced her, Ceciliantas invited Allannah to come to his room, and she accepted. Surgat, another member of Bobmarle’s guild who was in on the plot, followed them. Because he is a member of the thief class, Surgat can move around stealthily, which is how he was able to sneak into the room and witness the proceedings without Ceciliantas noticing him. > > Ceciliantas and Allannah then proceeded to have cybersex while Surgat recorded the event with screen captures and text logging. After it was over, Surgat provided Bobmarle with the screenshots, who then posted them to [eq2permafrost.com](http://eq2permafrost.com) and started the thread which later got a link from fark. What makes the story more funny is that Ceciliantas loudly denied cybering with Allannah (or anybody else). Because the thread was so popular, Evenstar, Ceciliantas’ in-game girlfriend, found out about it and got on the thread to disown him (and breakup with him) just as he was blustering loudly about taking legal action against this “slander”. And hilarity ensued. …and the downfall of modern civilization continued unabated. ---
**Author:** ![Scruloose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@Scruloose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scruloose)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-to-turn-off-visitor-access/280895/9 "2004-12-21T17:09:19Z")
Well, I made it through 8 pages, then I couldn’t tak3 1t 4n¥m0r3!!! The Star Wars Kid[sup]TM[/sup] must be breathing a sigh of relief. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-to-turn-off-visitor-access/280895/10 "2004-12-21T17:39:03Z")
I couldn’t even get halfway down the page. All those enormous sigs and picture attachments. What’s going on? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Viscera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/258eb7/32.png) [@Viscera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Viscera)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-to-turn-off-visitor-access/280895/11 "2004-12-21T17:42:40Z")
Mirror with all the pictures and posts by the guilty one: [http://www.thedauntless.com/cecil.html](http://www.thedauntless.com/cecil.html) Should suffice until the real thread comes back. Link was posted around page 17 before the quota was exceeded. ---
**Author:** ![Scruloose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@Scruloose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scruloose)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-to-turn-off-visitor-access/280895/12 "2004-12-21T17:48:52Z")
> [@Lord Ashtar](#): > > What’s going on? 😕 Young teenagers are running wild all over the internet. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-to-turn-off-visitor-access/280895/13 "2004-12-21T18:06:30Z")
It makes me feel oddly proud to say that I don’t have one iota of a clue as to what that is all about. It may as well be written in Swahili. Even after I read the explanation I don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-to-turn-off-visitor-access/280895/14 "2004-12-21T18:08:24Z")
I’m up to page 3 of that thread, and am LMAO. It is now my mission to read the entire thread. ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-to-turn-off-visitor-access/280895/15 "2004-12-21T18:25:13Z")
I _think_ this is where his on-line babe broke up with him: > [@](#): > > hi all this is evenstar > > i am posting on this thread after getting tells all day from friends and people i know in game… it was a shock to me that cecil claimed me as his rl gf even though we live like so far away and i known cecil only from game…and no i am not his perm online gf either as he knows i told him if he wanted online relationship than he has to earn it not claim it or poses it like its his right. > > yes those ss and log is truth i got originails emailed to me to my email addie…even if he was my bf do anyone think i can stand by a guy who cheats like that on me with another girl…answer to that my friends is no, i dont like my name been dragged into gutter by idiocy of someone so immature period…just to clear this up with you peeps i got nuthing to do further with cecil and his cassanova ways guys like that make girl’s life hell thinking they god’s gift to us well i got news i dont give a fuck about it you disloyal to me you finished thats all i am saying mr cecil find yourself some troll hookers to pleasure your needs but never come to me whispering sweet nuthingness But she could just be randomly hitting keys on her keyboard. ---
**Author:** ![Jaade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dfb087/32.png) [@Jaade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaade)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-to-turn-off-visitor-access/280895/16 "2004-12-21T18:34:55Z")
> [@SkipMagic](#): > > I _think_ this is where his on-line babe broke up with him: > > But she could just be randomly hitting keys on her keyboard. I can’t breathe…I can’t breathe… Damn it **Skip**! ---
**Author:** ![catsix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@catsix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catsix)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-to-turn-off-visitor-access/280895/17 "2004-12-21T18:37:26Z")
I just love the guy who said that he really wants to be sued so that he can get this clown’s actual real name. Can I marry that guy? No? Well then I will have to settle for peeing my pants laughing. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-to-turn-off-visitor-access/280895/18 "2004-12-21T18:44:14Z")
omfglololol this is truly great. I’m glad you guys turned me onto this “cecilness” so quickly so I can keep abreast of what goes on with the rest of the geeks in cyberworld. Very funny stuff!!! ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-to-turn-off-visitor-access/280895/19 "2004-12-21T19:12:55Z")
All the names in the world and this mook had to pick Cecil? Oh, the humanity. On the other hand, what if he’s one of us? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Greywolf73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d9b06d/32.png) [@Greywolf73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greywolf73)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-to-turn-off-visitor-access/280895/20 "2004-12-21T19:14:12Z")
> [@SkipMagic](#): > > I _think_ this is where his on-line babe broke up with him: > > But she could just be randomly hitting keys on her keyboard. I think that one comment just might be funnier than the whole EQ drama thread. 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-to-turn-off-visitor-access/280895.md?page=2)