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Originally Posted by quantum-x
Heh.
Well. I think I might defend myself.
This started as an internal GFY thing.
I put hosted these on my personal website, for GFY consumption.
Now, why did I mention GFY? Spur of the moment, and hey, it would be amusing for the guys on this board.
Now, if we're looking for the big FUCK YOU award, let's look at the people who hotlinked and posted them to various other boards. I have had ICQ's from members here going 'MAN I SPAMMED THEM EVERYWHERE!'.
Big thanks to Vox etc, who when they posted, took off the gfy bits.
Big FUCK YOU's to those from GFY who hotlinked the audio and STOLE the graphics off my website, and then proceeded to skite about it in emails.
It was never my intention to cause ripples the size as this. Let's just keep it in perspective as to the REASON it went public.
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quantum-x,
I don't know anything about you, but from reading your pseudo-apology it just shows you have no remorse. You're too busy blaming others for your "prank" to admit you fucked up. You're sending out big "fuck you"s to other people when you are the one who mentioned gfy.com... just plain idiotic. If you are truly a webmaster, then you know shit like this spreads like wildfire on the net... whether it was your intention or not... you fucked up. the least you can do is own up to it and apologize to Lens & Advertisers, etc.
For those of you that think this is a great thing for GFY, and "cool", and think that the only side-effect will be more surfers... you're wrong... this will bring more attention to GFY than ever before from media, legal, gov't agencies, etc... and perhaps Lens, some Advertisers and serious webmasters would prefer to do without that... I'm not saying the GFY was never visited before by those people, but now it's on everyone's Radar screen... some people think it's a surfer board, while others think it's a HACKER board and may assume that Lens made the calls or sanctioned the hack.
so quantum-x, bottom line, don't take this personally, I've got nothing against what you did, making prank calls and recording them, but you may have single-handedly changed the way GFY operates from this day forward... you've already forced Lens to make some simple changes and maybe he's planning drastic ones later... i.e. BANNINGS, or making GFY.com a paid-membership board. I, for one, would pay $5-$10 per month to come and network and do "real" business with "real" webmasters and filter out the noise.
Time will tell...