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RooK

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quote:
Originally posted by LeRoc:
I've heard about Hurricane Joanne of course, but I wasn't there when it happened. Sometimes I have the idea that if Joanne happened now, the situation would be dealt with easily. Maybe there have already been people on board who tried to be more disruptive than Joanne was, but since then it has been easier to deal with them. Could this be true?

Could be. We have more help these days.
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Alan Cresswell

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I just missed Hurricane Joanne, so can't report first hand on the events. But, since then several things have changed - in addition to the increased number of hosts & admins around to handle things.

My understanding was that part of the impact of Joanne was that Shipmates at the time were not expecting someone to come along with the sole purpose of simply messing with a discussion board and the people here. Yes, they were ready for stringent atheists or ultra-conservative evangelicals coming in to preach their particular message without really engaging with others - that happens in real life, we've probably all been accosted by some street evangelist or someone on our door step. No one was really prepared for the equivalent of a group of friends sitting in a restaurant enjoying a good meal and conversation, and then for a complete stranger to come in and start throwing food and plates around. The surprise, and possibly a certain amount of "this can't be happening" may have delayed the necessary steps to correct the situation. Now, we have that experience (and the experience of other trolls) behind us and we're probably quicker to act.

Second, the software was very different then. It was very easy for someone to register and spam the boards, a lot of work to clear up the mess, and practically impossible to prevent. Several people stayed up late into the night for a couple of days doing nothing but deleting what Joanne had posted. Joanne caused the boards to be closed as the only way to stop her posting and give people a break, in the interim the software was changed to require people to register and be approved before they could post (with, almost immediately a payment associated with that) which greatly increased controls over who could get on and spam us. The UBB software is ancient, creaky at the joints and is not perfect. But, it is much, much easier to prevent a troll or spammer posting, and much easier to delete offending posts.

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Tubbs

Miss Congeniality
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Hurricane Joanna arrived in January 1999, lasted two weeks and resulted in the first ever emergency shut down.

Joanna was, from what I was told, a militant atheist and had made it her mission to close down all Christian related discussion boards on the Internet. Her methodology was to spam boards into submission and simply make it Too Much Like Work ™ for those that ran them to carry on. By the time she got to us, she'd closed down several boards already. Erin said that The Ship was the only board that experienced the Hurricane and survived. Kudos to Erin, Simon and the others who cleared up the mess she made and wouldn’t give in.

I wasn’t here then, but I did arrive in time to witness both Pond Wars. (I am not thinking about how long that means I’ve been here, because that will freak me out!)

Tubbs

[ 01. August 2013, 10:56: Message edited by: Tubbs ]

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Moo

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quote:
Originally posted by LeRoc:
I've heard about Hurricane Joanne of course, but I wasn't there when it happened. Sometimes I have the idea that if Joanne happened now, the situation would be dealt with easily. Maybe there have already been people on board who tried to be more disruptive than Joanne was, but since then it has been easier to deal with them. Could this be true?

On the History of the Ship thread I once asked about Joanne, and got some answers.

The History of the Ship thread makes for very interesting reading.

Moo

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Starbug
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Please can someone tell me how to copy a post to the Quotes thread?

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Lyda*Rose

Ship's broken porthole
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I just bring up the post I admire, highlight and copy it (or the part of it that I like), go to the quotes thread, hit reply, type in the name of the person quoted followed by a colon, then hit the "quote" button by the smilies, and paste the copied quote between the bracketed quote and unquote. "Preview" and "add reply". Done [Smile]

[ 06. January 2014, 18:26: Message edited by: Lyda*Rose ]

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Firenze

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Or a slightly different means to the same end -

Hit the Reply with quote icon. Tidy up the text eg removing bits - until you have the bit you want. Plus you still have the original attribution and quote tags.

Then Select - Copy. Go to quotes file, click the Reply button, then Paste.

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Boogie

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This is the quotes icon.

[Smile]

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Starbug
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Thank you all for your replies. I will give it a try. [Smile]

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Alan Cresswell

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Don't forget, if you want to try something out there's always the UBB Practice thread here in the Styx. If you get it wrong there you'll a) not screw up a discussion elsewhere and b) there's usually some smart person watching the thread who could identify what you did wrong and how to do it right.

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Taliesin
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where is the quotesfile?
i tried the search function...

I want to put this:
Ken, about Pete Seeger.
Someone said he was more like a worship leader than a pop star. He wanted everyone to join in and everyone to mean it and everything to be changed, one song at a time.

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Spike

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Do you mean this thread?

It's on Page 1 if The Circus

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Drifting Star

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It's here, in the Circus. [Smile]

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Taliesin
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Thanks, never occurred to me to look there!
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