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Regrettably, Steelhead OWNS the 24HCF.

So, whatever Steelhead decides is the eventual fate of the forum.

Sad, but true.

kd

How do I do that?

Gotta wonder about Paddler. Every single post is meant to draw fire, and it does.

Regrettably, Steelhead OWNS the 24HCF.

So, whatever Steelhead decides is the eventual fate of the forum.

Sad, but true.

kd

I'm the dude that posted that in the other thread. Since I'm basically a
no-post count user I understand anyone's skepticism, but figured I'd
share what I knew. Please check things for yourself if you doubt them.

I've been researching this group for the past few weeks after they
started saturating another forum I use (ar15.com specifically) with
literally hundreds of postings in early March. They caused some serious
problems there and a group of IT savvy folks worked to fix the issue,
and I'm sharing the results here.

This group has been active for a LONG time. I've found links clear back to
2010 and possible even 2008. It's not at all clear why they're doing it, but
it may be conventional spam (the tracking pixel site sometimes will redirect
pixel to amazon products, making them look more popular.) However they've
also used accounts on other forums to post anti-gun and anti-Trump
comments. Nothing seems to be off limits, as they were dumping this stuff
into prayer request threads.

They really stepped up the volume starting in March, almost all on gun/outdoor
forums -- I'm currently aware of more than 40 different forums they're doing this
on. They do post in some political and sports forums as well. They appear to
be based out of indonesia based on the terms they use. The software on the
gshort.click server is called "Po.st" and sold by a company named RhythmOne
(previously called RadiumOne) and the software is specifically designed to
gather information on forum users based on RhythmOne's marketing materials
for Po.st.

Ownership of the gshort.click domain is hidden, as the other domains they used
has been (with one exception.) The founder of RadiumOne/RhythmOne has
some suspicious ties I won't go into, but feel free to look them up. It's a deep rabbit
hole. Since we don't know who owns the domain, they may just be a supplier to
whoever is doing this so I wouldn't draw any conclusions from that alone.

To cut to the chase, the problem has been solved on several forums by
blacklisting any links to gshort.click. They have a long list of other domains
in the past so I'm sure they will change it, but if they can't post that link it
stops them cold and the will stop posting (but they will continue to create
accounts, which is why some of these users have 2-4 year old accounts.)

Happy to answer any questions I can, though for some I may need to answer via PM.

What's your user name over on AR?

No, there is really nothing to wonder about at all. In hopes of not offending anyone with my comment, anybody that see can't through piddlers intentions pretty quick are either blind or stupid, because that is the only people that he can get to play with him.

He is a narssacistic psychosis riddled piece of dog excrement that is to stupid to realize when he's playing his cards face up on the table...my apologies to dog Schitt everywhere....

Engaging these dickkheads just helps to educate and embold them.