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Post by Praetor on Apr 24, 2008 18:32:59 GMT 12
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Post by LuciferIX on Apr 24, 2008 18:38:26 GMT 12
Well I will give SovietBarney one thing, at least hes mostly just annoying the Contestshippers.
Too bad its not the same with the other Barney.
I got $100 on the fact that they are one and the same.
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Post by Praetor on Apr 24, 2008 18:42:17 GMT 12
I'm not even sure if the Drew he means is the one in Pokemon. There's no reference to actual Pokemon at all; which leads me to believe that the person he is talking about coincidentally has the same name as the Drew in Pokemon.
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Post by dryuu01 on Apr 24, 2008 19:00:41 GMT 12
The "Drew" that the idiot was bashing is one of the "adult" characters in Nickelodeon's Rugrats. When I saw this level of bashing AGAIN, I thought of it as a sort of vendetta, and searched the ff.net database for a username with that match. Nothing. In other words, this guy's just a complete nutjob; I'm surprised that, with his line of thinking, he was even allowed near a computer in the first place.
I remember one account, C3POPikachu(thank the heavens he was deleted), who is a spam author like "those two". This one also bashes Drew Pickles. Coincidence? I think not. Pray that those accounts will also be deleted(perhaps faster than C3PO, which took a while).
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Post by XAOTL on Apr 24, 2008 20:50:33 GMT 12
That was frickin wierd.
THey call themselves serious authours?
I think not
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Post by Praetor on Apr 25, 2008 13:56:48 GMT 12
The authors are still there, and they are still spamming. Sooner or later, they'll get the other shippers all mad.
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Post by Matkin22 on Apr 25, 2008 14:46:08 GMT 12
Yes, if you see these authors on Fanfiction.net, report them immediately. Last I checked, all of SovietBarney's "fics" were identical, but they were in several different categories (Naruto, Pokemon, Harry Potter, etc.) The same is true of HerrBarney's fics.
Given the content in each fic, the nearly identical categories, and the "Barney" in the names, it seems fairly certain that they are the same person, and have just copied the titles, ratings, and summaries of other recently updated fics.
Do not review the fics (they are just looking for a rise); report them immediately instead.
I was lucky enough that several people saw what had happened and contacted me via FF.net PM last night, letting me know about it. Thank you to those who did, and please report both Soviet and HerrBarney immediately.
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Post by LuciferIX on Apr 25, 2008 15:54:46 GMT 12
Darkbur and a few other authors are taking this to a more extreme level. I just got a PM from him and I'd be willing to bet that a few of you have as well. In it he is stating that everyone should be modifying their stories titles and summaries to try and prevent the spammers.
I don't know about the rest of you but I'd rather not. This is just going to an extreme that the spammers want to see. Not to mention that it'll just hurt the other readers that actually want to read the stories.
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Post by Praetor on Apr 25, 2008 17:04:12 GMT 12
^ Who's darkbur? Providing a link to his profile might help.
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Post by LuciferIX on Apr 25, 2008 17:18:53 GMT 12
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Post by dryuu01 on Apr 25, 2008 17:19:12 GMT 12
Here: www.fanfiction.net/u/1535541/darkblurWhen I thought that the Pokemon section had a sudden story surge(from 19346 to 19358 stories) I was only let down by that piece of shame he claims himself to be an author.
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Post by Praetor on Apr 25, 2008 17:23:46 GMT 12
Thanks, guys. Wow, he took his advice seriously; I can't tell what his stories are about. I hope this masking is only temporary.
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Post by JbstormburstADV on Apr 26, 2008 7:52:08 GMT 12
OK, this is one of the weirdest things I've seen in the Internet. Well, has he jacked one of my stories?
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Post by Matkin22 on Apr 26, 2008 16:09:08 GMT 12
No, I'm the only one on here who'd been affected. It's probably because at the time of his posting, Final Challenge was the most recently updated Pokemon fanfic.
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Post by dryuu01 on Apr 26, 2008 18:57:48 GMT 12
Like I said in my most recent episode of NLC, I always look for the worst case scenarios when it comes to certain situations.
The WCS here is that even if we report the account(s) and they get banned, there's no hiding the fact that they will just come back and do it, again and again. If only there was some way to trace the account, in the real world, not in the "Net world".
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