It appears we have a troll

Don't feed the troll.
Ignore the troll.
He has been reported and will be gone soon enough.

 

He sort of reminds me of the one that haunted GreenHybrid last week.

 

Thanks for the hard work you guys do in keeping our board a 'no trolls zone', and thanks for the people who reported the trolls.

 

I'm not familiar with this boards software but with phpnuke that I use for one of my sites it will list the referring URL in the board settings. For an example if the trolls posted a link like this http://www.priuschat.com in their forum and someone clicks on it it would then show up in the referring URLs on this board. The referring URL would look something like this http://www.trollsaregay.com/index.php?post...mp;topic=123456. This would be the link back to the trolls original post in their own forum. This makes it easy to find out where and who.

To make things a lot more fun I can track what IP viewed what pages and where it came from on my site. If you have access to an IP/Time/referring URL you can have loads of fun tracking someone. h34r:

I'm glad to hear the trolls got banned from their site. :lol: Now if we could just call their moms and get them grounded. :lol:

 

I'd love to see a site that boards like PriusChat could report trollers on a database. If it turned out there are serial (and I know of one), forum blacklisting, termination of their internet privileges, trouble from their employer if they do it from their, and legal action may result.

I'd love to see how pale and scared there trollers are when it gets them in serious trouble.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(theforce @ Feb 1 2007, 12:48 PM) [snapback]383866[/snapback]</div>

That is kinda scary in a "big brother" kind of way.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Schmika @ Feb 1 2007, 05:55 PM) [snapback]384144[/snapback]</div>

Yes its very scary. The internet is not as anonymous as you may think.

I've only tracked a few people just to see how far I could go. I never really had any problem users with my phpnuke site because of the security I put in place.

I have some software that will detect sql injections, email harvesters, and some other bad stuff and ban the IP at the server level. Banning at the server level basically means that the person trying to get into my domain will be stopped way before they hit the served pages. Its like they got stopped at the guard door a mile away.

So far I have a list of about a 100 IPs that either were email harvesters, script kiddies with their sql injection attempt, or just aggressive indexers similar to google.

I've never actually had to ban anyone myself. I'm not saying my site is hacker proof but so far its keeping out all the crap I dont want. Its not a very popular site either so I guess that helps out a little in keeping out the bad guys. Its just a site for a local go-kart track.


I personally welcome anyone here as long as they follow the rules and not be trolls. The only people I dont respect the ones that have no respect for anyone.

 

Rather than being upset or offended by the posts in question, I was rather bemused at the amount of time said individual(s) spent on their "attack". It's like the guys who write "Suck my ****" on the bathroom stalls. You can't help but think, "How pathetic, guess they can't get a date so here they are getting their jollies by writing on the walls."

 

One common trait of all trollers seems to be an inferiority complex. You rarely see trollers from forums for high-end vehicles - even against each other (Porsche Cayenne vs. BMW X5 for example). Only people who are worried about what other might think of them and the vehicle they bought seem to troll.

 

Can you find a way to do the same to Spammers?