So, Religion:1 [where I waste the vast majority of my time] has been having some problems with spillover from Islam:2 lately.<\/p>\n
Normally, this wouldn’t be a problem. Okay, well, it would. I should know — I was a part of the last spillover problem, and that shit still<\/i> gets bitched about. But…this was a very special, weird e-domestic-dispute containing spillover.<\/p>\n
And it turned into a strange revenge-botting. By which I mean ‘some idiot fills the room with similarly named sockpuppets to prevent others from getting into the room, in order to ‘shut it down”.
\n
\nSomehow, it had something to do with Islam:2 being full of bots, and…possibly someone from Islam:2 having looked at the chat list and noticing Religion:1 once. I honestly don’t know — there was zero sense being made.<\/p>\n
I decided to go beyond zero sense, and into negative sense. I reported the user to Yahoo.<\/p>\n
Subject: Auto Confirmation – Your Yahoo! Abuse support request was received
\nFrom: Yahoo! Customer Care [reportabuse@cc.yahoo-inc.com]
\nDate: 02-Mar-10 11:59<\/p>\nHello,<\/p>\n
This is an automated message regarding your recent request for Yahoo!
\nAbuse Customer Care support. We have received your message and will
\nrespond within the next 48 hours with an answer.<\/p>\nThank you for reaching out to us. We look forward to helping you!<\/p>\n
Sincerely,<\/p>\n
Yahoo! Customer Care<\/p>\n
**Please do not respond to this message as no one will receive it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
That’d be their response. Also, there’s more:<\/p>\n
Subject: Re: Other Abuse (Not Listed)
\nFrom: Yahoo! Customer Care [reportabuse@cc.yahoo-inc.com]
\nDate: 02-Mar-10 19:42<\/p>\nHello,<\/p>\n
Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Customer Care.<\/p>\n
We appreciate your report of abuse in Yahoo! Chat. I understand that you
\nwould like to report abuse in Yahoo! Chat. However, I need some more
\ninformation from you first before I can further investigate your issue.<\/p>\nPlease provide the following if you haven’t already:<\/p>\n
– Exact Yahoo! ID that you are reporting<\/p>\n
– Your Yahoo! ID<\/p>\n
– Name of the Chat room involved<\/p>\n
If possible (and if you haven’t already), please provide us a copy of
\nthe harassment. You can do this by sending us a copy of the chat log
\nfile. To do this you must turn on Chat Archiving in your Messenger
\nsoftware.<\/p>\nWhile in Messenger:<\/p>\n
1. Click on “Messenger” at the top of the client.<\/p>\n
2. Click on “Preferences.”<\/p>\n
3. Click on “Archive.”<\/p>\n
4. Select “Yes, save all of my messages.”<\/p>\n
5. Click the “Apply” button.<\/p>\n
6. Click the “OK” button.<\/p>\n
If the abuse occurs again, please copy and paste the contents of the
\narchive with that particular user into your email to us.<\/p>\nTo view your archived chat:<\/p>\n
While in Messenger:<\/p>\n
1. Click on “Messenger” at the top of the client.<\/p>\n
2. Click on “Preferences.”<\/p>\n
3. Click on “Archive.”<\/p>\n
4. Click on the “View Archive” button.<\/p>\n
5. Select the user you are reporting from the list in the left window.<\/p>\n
6. Copy and Paste the offending text into an email to us.<\/p>\n
Once we have received the necessary information, we can continue to
\ninvestigate this issue.<\/p>\nThank you again for contacting Yahoo! Customer Care.<\/p>\n
Regards,<\/p>\n
Jay Tyler<\/p>\n
Yahoo! Chat Abuse<\/p>\n
69004043<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/<\/p>\n
Original Message Excluded:
\n————————–<\/p><\/blockquote>\nOkay. I can do that. I reply, keeping everything intact — including the reference number in the subject line [which I’ve excluded here]. I find it a bit odd that I’m supposed to reply to this one, but not the other one, because they’re the same email addresses. I figure it has something to do with the reference number…in the subject line.<\/p>\n
But, whatever. It’s Yahoo. There’s probably some sort of method by which emails are sorted, right?<\/p>\n
Subject: Re: Other Abuse (Not Listed)
\nDate: 03-Mar-10 11:13<\/p>\nExact Yahoo ID: leprinced_de_deutschland
\nMy Yahoo ID: Hunter.the_CrazyChick
\nName of Chatroom Involved: Religion:1 [and possibly Islam:2]<\/p>\nThe bots leprinced_de_deutschland used followed a naming pattern. s##s_gizmo_# [where # represents a numerical digit]. ‘gizmo’ was sometimes ‘gizmodo’ or ‘gizmosaurus’. I think there were also instances of broken_gizmo. I can’t be sure, as they don’t show up in my logs.
\nPortions of the archive:<\/p>\nleprinced_de_deutschland: [15] we not play
\ndancingwithmisty: GO BACK TO IT, IF IT’S SO WONDERFUL
\nleprinced_de_deutschland: [16] LOCK
\ndancingwithmisty: R1 will NEVER be Islam2
\ndemonrald: Mic ain’t workin’
\nleprinced_de_deutschland: [17] unrstand?
\ndemonrald: Audiho is lying.
\nleprinced_de_deutschland: [18] r1 b close
\nleprinced_de_deutschland: [19] LOK
\naudiho: dem, fuck you.
\ndemonrald: She studies aberrant psychology.
\naudiho: :-?
\ndemonrald: Especially guys who have bunny fixations.
\ndancingwithmisty: Get OUT
\nleprinced_de_deutschland: [20] thank lava
\nleprinced_de_deutschland: [21] ur name get lok now
\ndemonrald: damn it
\ndancingwithmisty: Lava isn’t even in here. GET OUT
\naudiho: oh, julio. :(
\naudiho: dem, your mic sucks, your life sucks, just kill yourself
\nleprinced_de_deutschland: [22] end of talk<\/p>\nleprinced_de_deutschland: [60] thank 2 lava
\nleprinced_de_deutschland: [61] n u r homo
\nleprinced_de_deutschland: [62] all ur name lok<\/p>\nleprinced_de_deutschland: [64] tel lave revove bot in islam chat and this bots leave<\/p>\n
leprinced_de_deutschland: [84] when wickd pull bot from 2 I pill bot here
\nleprinced_de_deutschland: [85] this is deal no exce3ption<\/p>\nleprinced_de_deutschland: [89] gump name get loked now<\/p>\n
leprinced_de_deutschland: [90] rel 1 closing down 2day
\nleprinced_de_deutschland: [91] find new rom
\nleprinced_de_deutschland: [92] hunter no talk
\nleprinced_de_deutschland: [93] name lok<\/p>\nRough translation: he intended to shut down Religion:1 by filling it with bots. He also repeatedly threatened to lock other user names. He wasn’t able to, but this doesn’t change the threats or his intention to do so.<\/p>\n
Apparently, he was back during the night, while I was asleep. It’s likely that he’ll also return today, but I probably won’t have any record of that as I’ve ignored him.
\nThank you for not sending me an auto-response asking me to ignore the individual. <\/p><\/blockquote>\nSo, there you have it — my reply. Everything they asked for, right?<\/p>\n
Subject: Re: Other Abuse (Not Listed)
\nFrom: reportabuse@cc.yahoo-inc.com
\nDate: 03-Mar-10 19:35<\/p>\nHello,<\/p>\n
Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Customer Care.<\/p>\n
The Yahoo! Customer Care team that supports Chat issues is primarily
\nEnglish-speaking.<\/p>\nPlease forward a translation of the information and we will review the
\nsituation further and take appropriate action.<\/p>\nWe apologize for the inconvenience.<\/p>\n
Thank you again for contacting Yahoo! Customer Care.<\/p>\n
Regards,<\/p>\n
Yahoo! Chat Abuse<\/p>\n
69004043<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Did you catch that?<\/p>\n
If you’re beating your head on your desk right now, or executing the world’s largest and most emphatic facepalm, you’re reacting exactly how I reacted. Except…I don’t have a desk, so I couldn’t really ‘headdesk’. And I honestly couldn’t decide which was more…warranted. I think both. Or at least some image of something else doing it — a cute kitten with its face buried in its paws on the floor, or Puppet Angel, or, y’know, something less used than Picard. Maybe Jon Stewart.<\/p>\n
Anyway, I replied:<\/p>\n
Subject: Re: Other Abuse (Not Listed)
\nDate: 03-Mar-10 21:12<\/p>\nWhat I sent you *was* in English. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Which should’ve been the end of it.<\/p>\n
Subject: Re: Other Abuse (Not Listed)
\nFrom: Yahoo! Chat chat-advocacy@cc.yahoo-inc.com
\nDate: 04-Mar-10 16:27<\/p>\nHello,<\/p>\n
Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Chat.<\/p>\n
We appreciate your report of abuse in Yahoo! Chat. I understand that you
\nwould like to report abuse in Yahoo! Chat. However, I need some more
\ninformation from you first before I can further investigate your issue.<\/p>\nPlease provide the following if you haven’t already:<\/p>\n
– Exact Yahoo! ID that you are reporting<\/p>\n
– Your Yahoo! ID<\/p>\n
– Name of the Chat room involved<\/p>\n
If possible (and if you haven’t already), please provide us a copy of
\nthe harassment. You can do this by sending us a copy of the chat log
\nfile. To do this you must turn on Chat Archiving in your Messenger
\nsoftware.<\/p>\nWhile in Messenger:<\/p>\n
1. Click on “Messenger” at the top of the client.<\/p>\n
2. Click on “Preferences.”<\/p>\n
3. Click on “Archive.”<\/p>\n
4. Select “Yes, save all of my messages.”<\/p>\n
5. Click the “Apply” button.<\/p>\n
6. Click the “OK” button.<\/p>\n
If the abuse occurs again, please copy and paste the contents of the
\narchive with that particular user into your email to us.<\/p>\nTo view your archived chat:<\/p>\n
While in Messenger:<\/p>\n
1. Click on “Messenger” at the top of the client.<\/p>\n
2. Click on “Preferences.”<\/p>\n
3. Click on “Archive.”<\/p>\n
4. Click on the “View Archive” button.<\/p>\n
5. Select the user you are reporting from the list in the left window.<\/p>\n
6. Copy and Paste the offending text into an email to us.<\/p>\n
Once we have received the necessary information, we can continue to
\ninvestigate this issue.<\/p>\nThank you again for contacting Yahoo! Chat.<\/p>\n
Regards,<\/p>\n
Jay Tyler<\/p>\n
Yahoo! Chat Abuse<\/p>\n
69004043<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/<\/p>\n
Original Message Excluded:
\n————————–\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\nYeah. That feeling you have? You have read this before. It’s pretty much the same, except for, y’know, the chat part.<\/p>\n
So I sent them the same email as before, but with this line on the end:<\/p>\n
That’s all in English. I can’t do much of anything to translate it into anything else, because ‘can’t type’ isn’t another language. This is pretty much what I’ve already sent to you before. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Their response? Scroll up to the last email they sent me. That was their response.<\/p>\n
All I’ve learned from this is that the system that sorts their emails involves a beach pail of d100s<\/a> on an uneven table and the Lemarchand Configuration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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