[Noisebridge-discuss] I am really disappointed with certain members of noisebridge

[Rachel McConnell]

Seriously not excellent!

If you did this, own up.  If you know who did it, get them to own up.

Ian, on behalf of Noisebridge generally, I apologize.  This was a
terrible thing to do to another member.

Rachel

Ian wrote:
> last night, there was an attempted DDOS on the noisebridge forum from
> 75.101.62.89 and 75.101.62.88. yes. those are both noisebridge IPs.
> they submitted around 35,000 votes to the forum and could have taken
> the entire uservoice site down.
> 
> i have no problem with people voicing their concerns on the mailing
> list, but to do something destructive and illegal using noisebridge
> equipment against a company that one of its members works for simply
> because you didnt agree with its usage is beyond pathetic. rubin, for
> future reference, even though you may not mean anything destructive or
> personal with your "abrasive" (as you put it in your personal apology
> to me) comments on the list, other, weaker people on the list who are
> followers will take them in a different way.
> 
> i tried to not censor anyone on the feedback forum and accommodate
> everyone and tried to play the role of strictly the forum admin. one
> of our staff deleted the suggestion about trying to get root on our
> site because, well, they simply viewed it as a threat against
> uservoice. i assured them finding security flaws was legitimate and
> will even benefit us. then they pointed to the suggestions about
> disparaging uservoice and my comment facilitating that. then again i
> reassured them i was only being the site administrator and that we
> shouldnt censor people who use our product even if their suggestions
> could hurt our business. the bottom line is i put my neck out to try
> to provide noisebridge with something that i thought would be useful
> and this is the thanks i get.
> 
> aside from my current situation with the company, uservoice is talking
> about taking legal action against noisebridge for the DDOS attack. i
> have begged them to allow me to solve this without legal intervention.
> i ask that the people who were responsible name themselves and
> separate them from the rest of noisebridge. if you identify yourself,
> explain and apologize for your actions, i think i can convince the
> rest of uservoice to move past this.
> 
> ian
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