everyone knows that webmasters are worse then a sowing circle. u want the word out on somethin, tell a webmaster. this is just a pr stunt tryin to revamp the board.
mark my words
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do you know whatsoever is one word?! afternoon dude, ill see u on pboard
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Originally posted by gutter do you know whatsoever is one word?! afternoon dude, ill see u on pboard
by now you shoulda put together that spelling means 0 to 0 to anyone here? atleast it dont to me.. but hey. if thats how you get your rocks off.. rock on.
catch ya on pb.
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I would safely assume that if it were actually being hacked, that the hosting company would have already unlocked the server, or provided a new server with everything restored on it from the backup system.
The message has everyone having to come back at a certain dated and time for the next message....kinda like an event setup...get everyone on all of the boards to talk about it....comment about it, link to the site...which is normally a no no from other boards....get tons of traffic and buzz about it, and give a message to let everyone know when to come back.
They could not have bought advertising on all of the sites to give them this much pr.
Don't you think, if your site was hacked, you would have at least your own message up on the server by now telling everyone in an open letter, and/or also your advertisers that you are working on the problem, and that you will be back up soon, etc.
Don't you think that at least the xbiz people, gigacash people, and/or helmy people would be on the boards to keep rumors under control, or at least make one public statement.
I think Brandon is right in his assessment. I think it is a PR stunt...not saying it is a bad idea and similar things have been done by national companies in the past to draw mass attention to them. As a consumer I would feel duped. As a webmaster, I am not sure I would like to know that it was just a big pr gimmick to draw back attention to what was once a good resource site back in it's day, trying to get people back again.
Originally posted by PMGames I would safely assume that if it were actually being hacked, that the hosting company would have already unlocked the server, or provided a new server with everything restored on it from the backup system.
The message has everyone having to come back at a certain dated and time for the next message....kinda like an event setup...get everyone on all of the boards to talk about it....comment about it, link to the site...which is normally a no no from other boards....get tons of traffic and buzz about it, and give a message to let everyone know when to come back.
They could not have bought advertising on all of the sites to give them this much pr.
Don't you think, if your site was hacked, you would have at least your own message up on the server by now telling everyone in an open letter, and/or also your advertisers that you are working on the problem, and that you will be back up soon, etc.
Don't you think that at least the xbiz people, gigacash people, and/or helmy people would be on the boards to keep rumors under control, or at least make one public statement.
I think Brandon is right in his assessment. I think it is a PR stunt...not saying it is a bad idea and similar things have been done by national companies in the past to draw mass attention to them. As a consumer I would feel duped. As a webmaster, I am not sure I would like to know that it was just a big pr gimmick to draw back attention to what was once a good resource site back in it's day, trying to get people back again.
Either way it sucks. lol.
former mod at xbix ^^
told ya so
want to buy this spot for cheap? it is of course for sale. long term deals are always the best bet. brand0n/ at/ a o l dot commies.
Originally posted by brand0n everyone knows that webmasters are worse then a sowing circle. u want the word out on somethin, tell a webmaster. this is just a pr stunt tryin to revamp the board.
mark my words
so webmasters are like a bunch of women in a beauty salon....
Originally posted by SR You guys are more pathetic than a bunch of schoolkids.
If this is a PR stunt then what exactly is so bad about it?
I think it's a pretty good one.
Funny to see that most negative posts come from former xbiz mods.
Cheryl/SR/SeeSea...you still work for Xbiz don't you?
Can you give us an insight on what is actually going on then?
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Originally posted by Equinox maybe nobody at helmy/gigacash/xbiz has noticed that their site is down yet.
ofcourse they have man, they did it.. come on.. and notice the zopranos ref there? come on.. there isnt any elite zopranos hackers who just decided to attack xbiz on the season premire
ok lets look at it like this. we all have a website or 2. now lets say that your site has had this happen to it. wouldnt it be fixed by now?
shesh.. come on folks!
want to buy this spot for cheap? it is of course for sale. long term deals are always the best bet. brand0n/ at/ a o l dot commies.
ofcourse they have man, they did it.. come on.. and notice the zopranos ref there? come on.. there isnt any elite zopranos hackers who just decided to attack xbiz on the season premire
ok lets look at it like this. we all have a website or 2. now lets say that your site has had this happen to it. wouldnt it be fixed by now?
shesh.. come on folks!
I was being sarcastic. I think it's a stunt as well.
Don't you think that at least the xbiz people, gigacash people, and/or helmy people would be on the boards to keep rumors under control, or at least make one public statement.
Ok, Paul, here's "one public statement" > "What rumors?"
Seriously, I've had a site hacked, and it took me a day to restore it
I know just as much as everyone else right now. I get the same page as everyone else. I am not a spokesperson for XBiz, I am the board hostess. I am hoping things will be back as soon as possible. This is Sunday you know.
For those that don't know me, I'm one of the more active mods at XBiz, if you've had your Spam deleted, it was probably me that did it!!!
I haven't heard anything about today, but has anybody thought that this is sunday, the sun is out, and maybe they have lives and just haven't heard about the problem yet, last time the board was down, it took most of a day to fix the problem !
When I hear something, I'll share it
Carbon is not the problem, it makes up 0.041% of our atmosphere , 95% of that is from Volcanos and decomposing plants and stuff. So people in the US are responsible for 13% of the carbon in the atmosphere which 95% is not from Humans, like cars and trucks and stuff and they want to spend trillions to fix it while Solar Panel plants are powered by coal plants
think about that
Originally posted by brand0n
how bout real fast, you ask her and then clue us in.
Not true, there are 3 count them 3 people from xbiz online right now.
This is a stunt, no doubt about it. Desperate times form desperate measures.
All this does is create hype in which people will keep refreshing the board to see when it comes up and hopfully end up with more traffic and free PR. What better way to plug another board on a board then to make it appear hacked and then drop GFY and oprano in the hacking tag message lol.
Originally posted by Vendzilla For those that don't know me, I'm one of the more active mods at XBiz, if you've had your Spam deleted, it was probably me that did it!!!
I haven't heard anything about today, but has anybody thought that this is sunday, the sun is out, and maybe they have lives and just haven't heard about the problem yet, last time the board was down, it took most of a day to fix the problem !
When I hear something, I'll share it
thought about it, then got over it when I looked at my icq list and saw a few XBIZ names on it
Makes a lot of sence . I don't see why they don't have a backup server
Originally posted by rayadp05
I rebooted, deleted temp files, history, cookies and everything...still cannot view the news clip. All I see is that fucking gay ass music video from "Rick Roll". Anyone else have a different link to the news clip?
Originally posted by brand0n everyone knows that webmasters are worse then a sowing circle. u want the word out on somethin, tell a webmaster. this is just a pr stunt tryin to revamp the board.
mark my words
... good point, I'd put money on that. no one gives a fuck about their shitty awards and webpage ... fuck them.
PR stunt my ass. You guys been abducted by aliens?
Locking customers away from information they want/need isn't
exactly good PR. The server was stressed quite a bit before this
page appeared. If there is a schedule for next message that just
means they have a script running proving that they still own the
box until someone finds the backdoor, the log killers etc and is
able to close the hole. Just because xBiz is a big site doesn't
mean they have the ability to instantly switch to another server.
For those disgruntled xBiz moderators.... Guys... We don't care if
you don't like xBiz. Because they have an awesome site, with
awesome newsletters, awesome articles, and awesome forums.
We just don't care if you feel hard done by.
Think for a second on how this reflects on xBiz and their hosting
partners + sponsors and you'll quickly see there is no reason to
do any PR stunt that is so detrimental to business.
-Ben
Cyberwurx Hosting
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Since 1997 I've had 2 hours of downtime.
Fast support, great techs, no hype, no gimmicks.
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