# Stealing from the SDMB? Metatus.com **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 28, 2002, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stealing-from-the-sdmb-metatus-com/126000 "2002-08-28T22:08:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2002, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stealing-from-the-sdmb-metatus-com/126000/101 "2002-08-30T21:43:10Z")
Great honk! Esprix ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2002, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stealing-from-the-sdmb-metatus-com/126000/102 "2002-08-30T21:54:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Coldfire \* > \*\*Somehow, someone calling themselves **Tristan** here and **Isoldes Man!** over there seems a tad more than a coincidence, **Smeghead**. \*\* _blink_ Must be a reference there I’m missing. But I’ll take your word for it. ---
**Author:** ![scott\_evil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@scott\_evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scott_evil)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2002, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stealing-from-the-sdmb-metatus-com/126000/103 "2002-08-30T21:58:24Z")
Hmmm… maybe it’s time to start some new safe-sex pile-ons. 😛 Quick, someone ask me if I’ve ever heard of AIDS???!??!!?!??!? j/k ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2002, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stealing-from-the-sdmb-metatus-com/126000/104 "2002-08-30T22:11:19Z")
I think my dead horse has aids. Stop beating it. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2002, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stealing-from-the-sdmb-metatus-com/126000/105 "2002-08-30T22:38:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Smeghead \* > \*\*_blink_ Must be a reference there I’m missing. But I’ll take your word for it. \*\* [It’s a French medieval legend.](http://www.metopera.org/synopses/tristan.html) ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2002, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stealing-from-the-sdmb-metatus-com/126000/106 "2002-08-30T23:43:37Z")
I have also noted at least one instance where, because none of the screennames that are being copied from here are actually registered over there, some one has taken over the screenname and registered it and began posting. This leaves the impression that the same person who is posting under that name now is the same one who posted here. So … let’s not be too quick to accuse any of the posters here of causing trouble over there since that may not be the case. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2002, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stealing-from-the-sdmb-metatus-com/126000/107 "2002-08-31T00:13:48Z")
Really. Can you imagine our beloved **Persephone** saying this? [quote] I don’t encourage meeting people I talk to online, unless it’s in a well-lit, public place, somewhere that is usually busy & only during daylight hours. Since I work graveyard shift and sleep all day, this usually puts my hours of activity beyond my own restrictions for meeting people. I don’t get out much. \*\* :snicker: From the thread with the “teabagging” bit mentioned on page 2. Which BTW, has been severely pruned since this morning. ---
**Author:** ![Baraqiyal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@Baraqiyal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baraqiyal)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2002, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stealing-from-the-sdmb-metatus-com/126000/108 "2002-08-31T03:05:32Z")
It would be funny if their own bot gets banned for posting this very tread. ---
**Author:** ![brachyrhynchos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brachyrhynchos/32/376_2.png) [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2002, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stealing-from-the-sdmb-metatus-com/126000/109 "2002-08-31T03:14:45Z")
I’m waiting for them to take a dopefest thread: _A Dopey Getogether!_\* (\* changed by their bot) \ **I** am Persephone! No, _ **I** _ am Persephone! _ **I** _ am Persephone! **I** am Spartacus! ---
**Author:** ![Berkut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e57/32.png) [@Berkut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Berkut)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2002, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stealing-from-the-sdmb-metatus-com/126000/110 "2002-08-31T04:09:19Z")
I doubt it’s a bot. Configuring a bot to selectively rip posts from the SDMB, and get only the interesting topics while removing SDMB references would be so difficult as to be impractical. Besides, they have gotten into the column archives too. It’s a person doing it. A sniveling, weaseling, spineless, gutless, small-penised person of questionable parentage, the type who pees on public toilet seats and rips the tags off of mattresses. ---
**Author:** ![Turbo\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ce73a5/32.png) [@Turbo\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turbo_Dog)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2002, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stealing-from-the-sdmb-metatus-com/126000/111 "2002-08-31T04:57:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Coldfire \* > **WILL ALL THE VALIANT KNIGHTS WHO APPARENTLY WERE TOO BLIND TO SEE THE PREVIOUS SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS KINDLY STOP POSTING AT THAT OTHER MESSAGE BOARD?** Thinks cuz he can push us around in here that he’s cool enough to boss us around on where else we can post. Damn power mongering egomaniac. I’m kidding! Hold the torture kind sir! ---
**Author:** ![Purd\_Werfect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2002, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stealing-from-the-sdmb-metatus-com/126000/112 "2002-08-31T05:12:58Z")
Hopefully, after this is cleared up, we can go after the vile scum who have illegally aquired mp3’s on their systems. It’s about time to clean this internet thingy up. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2002, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stealing-from-the-sdmb-metatus-com/126000/113 "2002-08-31T05:24:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Turbo Dog \* > I’m kidding! Hold the torture kind sir! Can I have his, then? What? Well, no, I didn’t do anything to deserve it, but … pleeeeeeease? I’ll post in l33t if it makes you feel better:) ---
**Author:** ![Berkut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e57/32.png) [@Berkut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Berkut)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2002, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stealing-from-the-sdmb-metatus-com/126000/114 "2002-08-31T05:26:10Z")
If a mod was curious enough, he/she could see if anyone posts or reads the board with an IP address in the range of 203.194.245.11 - 203.194.245.14 It is likely they would be using one of those IPs. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2002, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stealing-from-the-sdmb-metatus-com/126000/115 "2002-08-31T05:32:36Z")
And they don’t even talk about female masturbation over there. I could stand to read about that twice. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2002, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stealing-from-the-sdmb-metatus-com/126000/116 "2002-08-31T06:39:50Z")
I like this thread over there and the response: [http://www.metatus.com/forum/eng/viewtopic.php?p=115](http://www.metatus.com/forum/eng/viewtopic.php?p=115) ---
**Author:** ![LIONsob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/76d3ee/32.png) [@LIONsob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LIONsob)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2002, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stealing-from-the-sdmb-metatus-com/126000/117 "2002-08-31T07:12:50Z")
Just a little marginal thinking here. There is the phenomena here on the Internet called "The Slash Dot Effect ", it has been noted that when a web site gets cited in either a positive or negative way over on [www.slashdot.org](http://www.slashdot.org) that it can drive so much traffic to the web site that it actually knocks it off-line similar to what happens when somebody performs a D.D.O.S attack. Now it seems to me that with as many registered members as we have on this site and how even before the other site started borrowing some of our bandwidth, that the hamster that powers the server was stressing during prime time ,that may be the smart thing to do considering that they are copying all the threads from this board would be to continue to post here but do all of our reading there. It seems to me that doing so would balance out the bandwidth load between the two boards. We can even call it the "Slash Dope Effect ". Peace LIONsob P.S. Be Sure to Click the Refresh Button Frequently While There Boys and Girls, You Don’t Want to Miss Any of the Action. ---
**Author:** ![Anubis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@Anubis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anubis)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2002, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stealing-from-the-sdmb-metatus-com/126000/118 "2002-08-31T14:51:11Z")
Apparently, whoever is doing this has either read this thread or found his/her mistake in leaving the word ‘Doper’ in the copied threads: [Here](http://www.metatus.com/forum/eng/viewtopic.php?t=66&highlight=doper) we have an OP that says > [@](#): > > …and I trust my fellow HC’ers to come through… and later has a quote of the OP except with HC’ers still as Dopers and someone asked, “what’s a Doper?” And I could have sworn that someone later said that a doper was a member of these boards, but that post is now gone. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2002, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stealing-from-the-sdmb-metatus-com/126000/119 "2002-08-31T15:28:59Z")
\ Copy this ---
**Author:** ![butter\_pie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@butter\_pie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/butter_pie)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2002, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stealing-from-the-sdmb-metatus-com/126000/120 "2002-08-31T15:43:38Z")
I believe what you’re referring to, **LIONsob** , is a distributed denial of service attack (DDOS). If more people try to access the site at once than the server can handle, the server will go down. But that isn’t a permanent solution to the problem, just annoying to the owner of the site. Well, unless you did it every single day, I guess. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stealing-from-the-sdmb-metatus-com/126000.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stealing-from-the-sdmb-metatus-com/126000.md?page=7)