Boards hacked!

I see Boards was hacked from abroad. Some dangerous characters out there. Who knows who the 'guests' are!

Would you all please sent me your credit card details so I can keep them safe....

Violent attacks across the nation during boards.ie outage

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Gaaybag69 - Boards Moderator

A number of violent episodes followed in the wake of the boards.ie
hack last week. Intrepid forum moderators had no choice but to manifest
their Hitler complexes in the so-called ‘physical’ world.
“I moderate my forum on boards with an iron fist. Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, fucks with me and gets away it.”
The words of After Hours and Motors mod Gygax69.
In real life, Gaaybag69 is known as Seamus Boxty, an unassuming 98
year old World of Warcraft enthusiast from Leitrim. Living with his
mother in the sleepy hollow of Drumshambo, Seamus chose to shun the
trappings of a regular young Leitrim man such as dowdy women, poorly
modified cars, 10 shpots, 3rd level education and minimal standards of
hygiene.
“I knew that was never the life for me. I knew, somehow, that I was
different, that my life was supposed to *mean* something. Sure, it was
tempting. I mean, who doesn’t want to nick Micras and burn them out
across the border, or finger fat birds in the alleyway beside Macaris
chipper?”
Seamus shut himself off from the topsy-turvy world of Drumshambo
when he discovered the internet. It was like a whole new world had
opened up for him.
“Suddenly, I didn’t have to be a fat 98 year old virgin living with
my Ma, working part-time in my uncle’s bakery, with really **** skin
and terrible teeth. Online, I was like some kind of RamboJesus made out
of ones and zeros. I could be whatever I wanted to be.”
With his snappy new online identity in place, Seamus trawled the net
looking for an outlet where he could flex his newly found cyber-muscles.
“I used to get battered in school because I was smarter that
everyone else. Not academically smart, or street smart, or sports
smart, but you know… smart. People couldn’t handle the intellectual
hand grenades I used to lob at them. Online though, I was the tough
guy. I didn’t have to hide in the jacks at eleven o’clock break. Why?
Because there are no eleven o’clock breaks on the internet, dumbass!
Hahaha, pwnd you good. Anway, where was I? Oh yeah, I became an
internet tough guy. Then I found boards in 2001 and joined the After
Hours and Motors forum. At first, I was like ‘Hey, nice to talk to you
etc’. This went on for two years or so. Eventually, they made me a
moderator. From that day on, my place in history as the biggest ****
that ever ruled over an internet forum in Ireland has been firmly
cemented in history. Don’t agree with me? Banned. Replied in a old
thread? Banned. Cursing? Banned. Slagging off WoW? Banned, banned,
banned.”
This continued for years. Gaaybag69 and his band of merry moderators
were so good at their jobs, many new users would join boards, post
once, get berated (“FFS. Did you even READ the forum rules, noob?”),
then never come back.
However, on the 21st of January 2010, the world of Gygax69, online
Superman, came crashing down. A hacker from one of the murkiest regions
of cyberspace (Turkey) penetrated the Gibson servers of the boards
mainframe. They uploaded the dreaded DaVinci virus, resulting in a mass
outage of the boards.ie forum software
Suddenly, Seamus had nowhere to go.
“It was awful. I literally had nothing to do. I’d usually spend my
days striking down new users with my staff of digital justice, but now
I was just another fucking Leitrim douchebag. I felt like Clark Kent,
except less educated.”
“My Ma asked me to take her Clio down to the mechanics. Her polio
was playing up or something. Since I was a mod on the Motors forum, I
thought myself more than capable of the job so off I went. When I got
there, I decided to wow the mechanics with my knowledge of Nurburgring
lap times. It all went wrong when one of the mechanics disagreed with
me on the lap time of a Honda NSX. I whispered a private message into
his ear saying ‘Don’t you DARE pull me up on anything like that again
or I will ban you’. He’s all like ‘What the **** are you on about
man?’. That’s when I lose it. ‘Right, that’s it! You’re banned. Banned.
Banned. Banned. For two weeks, no less!’. I began to escort him from
his garage by the scruff of his (somewhat rouged) neck. That’s when I
felt the sledgehammer in my back, followed by a balpeen to the temple.
It was lights out at that point.”
Seamus Brady spent the next 2 days in intensive care and was only
well enough to talk to the Irish Sentinel today. Had he learned
anything from this experience?
“Yeah. Those mechanics in the garage that almost beat me to death?
Fucking noobs. Tell them to try that **** on boards and I’ll wipe the
floor with them. Now please leave. The site’s back up and I smell the
blood of new users.”
And with that, Seamus sat back in bed and logged into his favourite
forum. Cracking his neck muscles he mutters to himself: “Time to go to
work, Gygax69. No fear. No fear.”
One of many stories of violence againsts boards.ie forum moderators
across the country. Some call them lowest form of life in Ireland.
Others call them badgers.
We call them people.

This week marked the demise of one of my favourite sites "Up the Deise".com
To describe it as an institution wouldn't be doing it justice. Vindictiveness, acrimony, inter-tribal factions. whiners, braggers...this site had it all. Unless you had a fairly good knowledge of Waaherfurd and it's denizens you couldn't dare register, let alone post....
Wellboy* gave it a good lash, forthright, caustic, dismissive of all opinion bar his own, carried the place and an hour a month's visit would amuse you greatly...

* A forumite here, for whom I have the highest respect , will be aware of Wellboy in another guise....OK Butty...