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Real Name: Jason Sperber Member Since: March 14, 2006 Last Signed In: November 20, 2009 Profile Views: 16943 Blog Views: 17071 YouTube upload test Site problems are being investigated Sites down for 5 minutes at 8 a.m. Tuesday morning Site down tonight from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. Site Rules, Disciplinary Issues, and Community Culture Your input requested! We apologize for the inconvenience - Bakomatic sites now back up Site problems on Thursday afternoon Stuff and things... When parody crosses the line to inappropriate... November 06 December 06 January 07 February 07 March 07 April 07 May 07 June 07 July 07 August 07 September 07 October 07 November 07 December 07 January 08 February 08 March 08 April 08 May 08 June 08 July 08 August 08 September 08 October 08 November 08 December 08 January 09 February 09 March 09 April 09 May 09 June 09 July 09 August 09 September 09 October 09 November 09 
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Site problems are being investigated
We're following a situation where the servers are under high load, and thus any slowness in pageloads, timing out, or other wonkiness (like having to log back in sooner than normal) are tied to this. We're investigating and will keep you posted. We apologize for the inconvenience. 9 comments from 6 users
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posted by
jasonsperber
on Mar 18, 2009 at 10:50 AM
We're working to resolve the current site/server issues causing load problems and will keep you posted. posted by
AudreyB
on Mar 18, 2009 at 10:52 AM
That little spammer this morning didn't help, I'm sure. What do you want to bet he's playing hooky from school. posted by
vanityfair
on Mar 18, 2009 at 11:03 AM
Must be the Secret Service combing the site for hate speech, lol. posted by
Shwaine
on Mar 18, 2009 at 01:01 PM
I suspect the lagginess might have been due in part to our little Nigerian scammer being blocked from posting but not banned from accessing the site (e.g. dropping all packets coming from the scammer's IP address). Assuming our scammer was in fact a bot, bot programs can get mighty confused by such things and freak out in unexpected, and lag-inducing, fashion. The lag seemed to start right when the scammer was blocked from posting, so that's my theory. posted by
jasonsperber
on Mar 18, 2009 at 01:53 PM
Shwaine, when spammer accounts are identified, we block the associated IP address as well as suspend the account. So if a human or bot spammer tried to reach the site after I suspended and blocked that user, they would have gotten a "blocked IP" message. I don't know what kind of effect that might have had on the server load (as you know, I'm not a techy).
posted by
AudreyB
on Mar 18, 2009 at 02:00 PM
Oh! I feel so violated. posted by
Shwaine
on Mar 18, 2009 at 04:44 PM
If they get a message from the server, that means the server is responding to them in some fashion, so yeah, it could affect server load. The sort of blocking I was talking about would get no message from TBC servers, just that "Could not connect to website. Try again later." default page that IE and Firefox bring up when they can't connect. posted by
montfred
on Mar 18, 2009 at 05:08 PM
posted by
catpaw
on Mar 18, 2009 at 05:29 PM
Darn. I read this blog too late. I done cursed and kicked my computer for being a piece of junk. (Again.)
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