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Re: We're more popular than Duke Nukem! :)
Posted: Tue May 10, 2011 11:34 am
by Staer9
And now we have risen to page 4!!!
popularity number 31 out of 2519
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Re: We're more popular than Duke Nukem! :)
Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 10:45 am
by Staer9
Re: We're more popular than Duke Nukem! :)
Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 3:46 pm
by drew
Quick everyone! Cloths off!
Cheers,
Drew.
Re: We're more popular than Duke Nukem! :)
Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 5:14 pm
by JensAyton
See also the top project downloads list on
http://developer.berlios.de/. (Apparently this traffic mostly came from one IP which has now been blocked. Credit to another_commander for paying attention.)
Re: We're more popular than Duke Nukem! :)
Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 8:24 pm
by Commander McLane
Ahruman wrote:See also the top project downloads list on
http://developer.berlios.de/. (Apparently this traffic mostly came from one IP which has now been blocked. Credit to another_commander for paying attention.)
Stupid question: why would someone download the game thousands of times? Is that meant as some kind of attack?
Re: We're more popular than Duke Nukem! :)
Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 8:32 pm
by maik
Commander McLane wrote:Ahruman wrote:See also the top project downloads list on
http://developer.berlios.de/. (Apparently this traffic mostly came from one IP which has now been blocked. Credit to another_commander for paying attention.)
Stupid question: why would someone download the game thousands of times? Is that meant as some kind of attack?
Could be a proxy that masks the IP addresses of the users behind it...
Re: We're more popular than Duke Nukem! :)
Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 8:34 pm
by JensAyton
Commander McLane wrote:Stupid question: why would someone download the game thousands of times? Is that meant as some kind of attack?
It seems so. Either that, or astroturfing.
maik wrote:Could be a proxy that masks the IP addresses of the users behind it...
I doubt 95 % of our users proxy through a small ISP in southern Russia. :-)
Re: We're more popular than Duke Nukem! :)
Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 8:37 pm
by Smivs
Revenge of the spammers?
Re: We're more popular than Duke Nukem! :)
Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 8:43 pm
by maik
Ahruman wrote:I doubt 95 % of our users proxy through a small ISP in southern Russia.
OK. Unlikely.
Re: We're more popular than Duke Nukem! :)
Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 9:01 pm
by Commander McLane
Ahruman wrote:Commander McLane wrote:Stupid question: why would someone download the game thousands of times? Is that meant as some kind of attack?
It seems so. Either that, or astroturfing.
Sorry for being dense, but I still don't get it. How are masses of downloads an attack? And who is the attacked? We? BerliOs? Is it about shutting their servers down by using up all bandwidth? And is a random choice that they chose Oolite for the download?
And astroturfing? That's about gaining influence by creating a fake movement. But where would they want to gain influence? And in regard to what? Through downloading a game? That doesn't really make sense to me.
I apologize again. I'm not being intentionally dense here. I really just don't get, for what purpose and to what end someone would use the means of downloading a game a couple of thousand times. It looks like a massive weapon, but I have no clue why and against whom someone would use such a weapon.
Re: We're more popular than Duke Nukem! :)
Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 9:09 pm
by JensAyton
Well, I don’t know. Feel free to track the perp down and ask. Could just be a broken script of some sort.