Not that I’m second-guessing the mods (that would go in the Pit ;)), just that usually, it’s pretty obvious why, but this time, I’m pretty sure he wasn’t a Sock, since he had been registered since 1999. When I clicked on the profile, there was a mention that his last post was to a thread called ‘Little graph of SDMB lag, for the curious’ but it doesn’t exist.
I’m not asking this to argue. I’m just curious as to what happened there.
He published some code. I think it was how to find out stats on # of posts.
After his posts were edited a couple of times he refused to take the hint.
BTW, he went into detail on a couple of threads. Kyberneticist tries to gather stats about SDMB’s slowness; 3 mods jump him
(Oddly, the search lists Arnold Winkelried as the author, but it looks like RTFirefly started the thread.)
Specifically:
Before Jerry the Tech God did some futzing, the board was running remarkably slow.
Kyber decided to figure out how slow, and when, and so he wrote a program to automatically ping the MB every few minutes, and get a response time.
The problem was two-fold: first, said program was therefore taking up MB resources (by having to respond to the ping every few minutes), and Kyber posted the specific code for the program in ATMB (along with his report, stating that during regular American business hours, the board got slower, and in non-business hours was faster, which was not particularly shocking news).
It was pointed out to Kyb that said code could be used to launch a Denial of Service attack upon us, and that we really didn’t appreciate him posting code that was pretty much a how-to guide for hackers. Kyber then attempted to defend himself by stating ‘no, if you wanted to launch a DoS attack, you’d have to make these specific changes to the code, and here’s the step-by-step…’
This was the second time Kyber had posted code to the board which could be used to deletorious effect upon the board, and it was decided to ban Kyber.
OK, Now I understand. That was pretty dumb of him, and probably deserved banning. I’m reading the thread provided by Mu Mu and I’m shocked that so many people seem to be into SDMB-Bashing over there. I Didn’t know of that Forum before.
Ooops, there goes Mu Mu. Could a Mod please close this thread.
At the OP’s request, this thread is closed.