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I tried to go and reply to the uptight person shrieking "You mean the RP post that's not in this thread? The one she had already posted? The one that she's doing with somebody else? The one that you have nothing to do with?" and I can't get to it. At all. I'm not allowed to access it. I go to the RP player's page where I made the comment and the entry has myseriously vanished. It's been locked off to me, it seems. *rolls eyes* S'okay. They want to kick me out of their uptight little shit, whatever.

To the badficcer,

This is a joke, right? No one could possibly think that that is a valid piece of writing based on the world I created.

It is creatures like you that make me consider revoking the right to write fanfiction based on my worlds. Rest assured that your name will be listed as one of the reasons if I ever do such a thing.

To the PPC,

Good work. Have an autographed copy of my books for your troubles.

I loved it. Crossovers with Donna are always awesome.

But pretty much all my stories are in the same connected universe (sort of like Stephen King's), so chances are any character I publish could show up again.

So, to be on the safe side, I would not want it being known that I read fanfiction.

We all started as noobs. Let me see if I can explain somewhat less geekly than I usually do.

The yourwebapps.com forums are vulnerable to spam because no login, or authentication of any type, is required. If you look down the board a bit, you'll see a post entitled "If this posts, the proxy IP isn't blocked (nm)". You'll also see that it was posted from 72.167.203.129, the IP that the spammer has been using. He didn't post that, though; I did.

72.167.203.129 is a proxy server. It acts as an intermediary between a user (me, the spammer, someone whose company's firewall blocks Fark, whoever) and the actual site. Let's say I want to post "If this posts..." here via that proxy. I tell the proxy what web page I want, it sends the request to the webserver, then passes it back to me. The webserver only ever sees the proxy's IP, not mine; only the proxy server knows who I am. When I enter my post, it goes to the proxy server, not yourwebapps.com; the proxy server then submits it to yourwebapps, and it gets posted as normal. In fact, I'm using a proxy server right now, though not that one.

So, anyone who has net access can post on our board. They don't need an email address, an account anywhere (a library or other public computer will work fine), or much of anything else. It's like the old days of the Net, before the great spam plague. If they go through a proxy server, they can post without giving anyone but the owner of the proxy server any clue who they are, and for obvious reasons, the proxy owner won't talk without (or even with, if they're offshore) a court order.

The binservices email address is listed on the home (and only) page, a placeholder, of binservices.com, which was registered for a while before this happened. So it has at least some solidity to it, unlike the other phantoms I've been chasing.

It wasn't created to spam because the type of spam that has been done -- namely, of this board -- doesn't need a valid email account. Or a valid anything, actually. It just needs someone knowing where the board is. The Usenet posts connected to it, which also (like signupforspam.com, and our flood) seem to be attempts at getting the real binservices spammed, likewise don't require any type of verification.

So, there's no need for the actual binservices gmail account, website, or anything else, to be involved at all. It's apparently someone else our spammer has a beef with, and he's trying to kill two birds with one spam by flooding our board, and getting us mad at the other guy, who had nothing to do with the spam.

I could post here as binservices, the Queen, Techno-Dann, or you, and the board would be equally happy to accept my posts. No sock puppet accounts required. You know I'm not you, and you could figure out that I'm not Dann because I'm not using the same IP he does, but for all you know, I am binservices or the Queen.

Does that make any sense?

There's a great webiste — How Stuff Works — that explains about how all sorts of things work, including a lot of Internet things. It's a good place to go to get de-noobified, and a lot more fun than reading RFC's.

(yes, that part about RFC's was a bit of intentional geekery)

Speaking of which, would it count as Sueism if my agents were to accidentally pick up an Object in the course of an execution, when they realise the only way to safely get away from the Holder is to pass its test? The entire series is in second-person, so technically there is no canon Seeker whose canon life-story could be damaged, but they damn sure wouldn't be looking for the rest of the things - they'd have to portal back into the Holders canon and find an actual Seeker to pawn it off onto. But the things can't just be handed over, they have to be "won", so they'd also have fun thinking up some ridiculously humiliating and hysterically funny thing the Seeker would have to do to get it ...

...was quite entertaining. : ) Actually made me laugh out loud, which is quite a feat.

...*surreptitious glances from side to side* I won't tell if you don't.

Isn't that only a risk if you're going to produce more books in the same series? Though clandestine readings are probably wise anyway...

You'd probably get a lot of hate mail from fans OF you who are trying to DEFEND you TO you... very, very funny. *grin*

On all counts, really. Thanks, lynx.

I used it in my first mission. *evil cackle* Thin skin won't last long...

*checks FFN*

Ah yes, A Little Problem.

They're illegally downloaded fansubs ya know. I'm not sure I should share them.

I'll politely tell everyone going down my throat to sod off, then. I wanted to make sure I hadn't unknowingly broken some rule of RPG before I did.

RP is like writing, as far as I'm concerned. People fall into the same traps as fanfic writers--it's just a role-play, it's not important, it's just for fun, so I can do whatever I want. My guess is that they took your comment as an infringement on fun and/or a personal insult and ran with it.

~Neshomeh, who has seen a lot of dumb stuff in RP settings.

Doctor Who and Discworld. And it's good. Thank you for pointing it out. <3 I don't believe I've seen these two (successfully) crossed before.

...or maybe at all. *shrug*

And if you're going to sit in a corner with your Ouran DVDs, at least scoot over and make room for me. :P I like Ouran. ^_^

How to Successfully and Repeatedly Get Yourself into Dire Situations, a Doctor Who/Discworld one-shot crossover.

Not written by me, but something I thought should be shared with everyone here. I know that there are a few Discworld fans that hang around the Board who might appreciate it.

And if it's crap I'll just go and sit quietly in my corner with my Ouran DVDs and not pimp fics again.

I think the author of C*l*br**n got troll superpowers from the sheer horrificness of their 'fic. If they come after us, computers will probably start spitting flames at anyone who tries to enter the Board.

I link to the Board. I also link to the Wiki. However, I don't recall pissing anyone off recently.

Generally I use either huinesoron(at)hotmail(dot)com, or noldo(dot)nargothrond(at)gmail(dot)com. Either of them is fine.

hS

but that was only when the PPC movie was first announced, and it was long before anyone knew my LJ existed. So that doesn't really help.