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You mean the skype dumps? https://pastebin.com/8DY2Rzuw

Essentially their strategy was

a) dox the doxxers and hope to scare them off to other chans

b) wholesale ban everybody involved

c) evac and sell the site to somebody else, which moot did end up doing

No, they were IRC dumps of the internal communication between moderators as they did their job over the course of a few months. It was a lot of content, I think one of the reasons I saved it as 4 text files was because it was overflowing notepad or something.

Ah, probably this then which covers months of janitor logs from end of 2013 until 2015 https://www.mediafire.com/download/iygnsl39bvtglza/%23janite... About 220MB in size. That was posted on 8chan /irc/ which is solely 4chan janitor log dumping hxxps://8ch.net/irc/index.html (due to 8ch pariah status, do not go there from any work IP).

That's most likely it, and also explains why I had trouble finding it on the regular archives. 220MB of text is a fuckton of random conversation to sift through if we want to do any meta-analysis on moderating styles however. At least it's a goldmine for serious researchers.

That log is painful to read. I definitely sympathize with moot and the mod team, but that was not the way to handle that.

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