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Schol-R-LEA wrote:
I am no longer convinced (as I was earlier) that this is simply ordinary spam which the mods were running into trouble stopping. This has the feeling of a coordinated DDoS (by someone competent, not someone like AndrewThompson666).
It must be people aimed at operating system developers.
I was being facetious. No one is attacking OS developers, because OS development for anything other than Windows, MacOS, or Linux is of zero real-world significance, and no sane human thinks that is going to change in the foreseeable future (not that any sane people come to this group to begin with).
I can - just barely - see it as a raid (i.e., a group in the vein of the old alt.syntax.tactical and 4chan raiding parties, deciding that we'd be a fun group to wreck for the Lulz), but the idea that anyone sees this group as a threat is literally insane. We just don't matter - to anyone.
It is much more likely that the we only just came up on the current spammers' radar recently for some reason, and that we were merely ignored until now because, well, why bother? These sorts pf things take a shotgun approach - they hit every forum they find, until they get shut down. The people running it probably don't even know which fora their spamming software are hitting.
As for the attacks on you personally, I doubt they were
targetting you - they were, almost certainly, opportunity attacks for robbery or something unrelated to you as a person, because... well, most attacks on individuals are. You went to the wrong place at the wrong time, took a phishing attack for a real offer, whatever it was, it wasn't about
you.
You'd have to be genuinely, psychotically paranoid to think someone is going to target you because you are developing an operating system, and if you are actually thinking that, you need to check yourself into a mental hospital, right now, for your own safety and that of those around you.
And I am
not joking about that.