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4chan Users Try to DDoS Tumblr, Tumblrs Raid 4chan in Revenge

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This reminds me of "wars" kids in my neighborhood would have when I was about ten years old. Each group of kids would think up highly elaborate plans of subterfuge, sophisticated camouflage, and spying, that, when executed, basically consisted of throwing some moldy walnuts over a fence at the other groups of kids.

What they both have in common are groups of children with too much time on their hands.

Walter said it best: "8 year olds, dude".

So how exactly does one raid a crapflood, anyhow?

> Raiding 4chan? Like one /b/ user says, "Isn't that like pissing into an ocean of piss? What's the point?"

They may have taken a cue from xkcd:

http://xkcd.com/591/

This will end well.

Tumblr hardly needs any help in being slow in my experience.

What's the reason behind this? Usually there's some kind of a backstory...

4chan is that dumbass kid who releases bees into the classroom just to laugh at everyone who doesn't want to get stung.

If there's a backstory, it's probably something that everyone else would shrug off and move on with their lives, but for whatever reason, the sociopaths at 4chan cannot.

Something about 4chan /b/ inventing memes that then end up on tumblr unattributed.

(I don't know that any particular memes were named in this allegation.)

Is this high school? I don't understand these things. Why would you destroy your time, resources, and sense of humanity for this childish crap?

Is this high school?

Yes. Though Tumblr and 4chan both have older users, the ones that participate in this kind of thing "seriously" are generally of that cliquish high school mindset and narrow worldview characteristic of but not limited to teenagers. Ironically, it's that same earnestness that provokes raids like this.

Why would you destroy your time, resources, and sense of humanity for this childish crap?

Lulz. Srsly.

One of the guys in my D&D group is of this mentality.

I hope he matures soon.

>D&D >mature

much lulz were had

Wow, way to fall for the trollbait. I wonder which side will prove Godwin's law first?

I'm actually expecting this whole thing to turn out to be a fantastic case of guerilla marketing by tumblr. It just seems too hilariously perfect.

Anyone know the origins of "What is Air?". It seems to be yet another meme that's passed me by, but Googling doesn't yield much in the way of an explanation — just lots of people on Tumblr saying it and finding it seemingly funny... http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/WHAT+IS+AIR%3F

It's normally used when reblogging a photo that makes you laugh so hard that you can't breathe. I'm not sure of its origin, but it's pretty widely used on Tumblr.

Can anyone suggest how to defend against these type of attacks?

Is it simply a case of rate limiting by IP? If so, anyone suggest an easy way of doing this (I assume limiting at the web server level is not good enough?)

Going to be fun for the neutrals. I neither use Tumblr or 4chan. Let them cancel out each other. :-)

4chan can just block registration of new users on 15th to avoid this.

Uh, what? The whole point of 4chan is that you're anonymous, no registration needed.

4chan founder Christopher Poole's TED talk on "The case for anonymity online"

http://www.ted.com/talks/christopher_m00t_poole_the_case_for...

You're not anonymous to admins, only to users. Every post is still associated with a big fat naked IP address and it's a single click to ban a user of a specific post.

Banning an IP address != Banning submissions from every client that hasn't posted before 11/15/10

I wasn't addressing the problem of banning Tumblr users, but correcting the often mistaken and repeated claim that 4chan is an anonymous forum.

But seriously, if the mood stays "for real" it's not going to be hard to shutdown and ban tumblr users.

Ha, how ignorant I was? Thanks for enlightening. As I mentioned before, I have never been to 4chan.

The planned trolling tactic of the Tumblr group, "SPAM /B/ WITH KITTENS", seems... flawed. Are they not aware of the origins of lolcats?

4chan will fire back with cat gore.

Won't someone please think of the kittens?

Has this something to do with Children's Day?

Why do we even have this on Hacker news?

Because it's sunday and the regulars are not procrastinating at work.

kids will be kids

Tumblr is funny.

4chan is more DDOS idiocy.

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