OT the Scout forums are reportedly leaking IP Addresses

What’s the purpose of them doing that?

good. posting stupid should have repercussions

Well, that's disturbing.

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and we're not stupid.

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There's a whole industry built on scamming boomers on the internet and it's probably like a solid quarter of India's GDP. You may not be a technologically illiterate boomer but it's the tendency in that generation.

I'm not super familiar with Scout so you may be right about that problem.

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What's the presumed motive and desired outcome here?

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If it's run of the mill forum shite it's usually to find pictures or something embarrassing to throw out and shame someone.

Sometimes, and oftentimes on twitter, it's to get them fired.

Rarely it's the crazies trying to find and kill someone.

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Is there a pleasant good-willed reason to dig up RL information on a poster who didn't choose to share the information with you?

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Someone threatening suicide. That's the common one.

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If it's run of the mill forum shite it's usually to find pictures or something embarrassing to throw out and shame someone.

Sometimes, and oftentimes on twitter, it's to get them fired.

Rarely it's the crazies trying to find and kill someone.

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Well, since I don't have any pictures online (that I know of) and I don't use Twitter, I guess I'm just gonna get killed if anyone publishes my IP. Damn. Maybe I better get a Twitter so the odds of me surviving are 50/50.

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There's a whole industry built on scamming boomers on the internet and it's probably like a solid quarter of India's GDP. You may not be a technologically illiterate boomer but it's the tendency in that generation.

I'm not super familiar with Scout so you may be right about that problem.

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They have had security problems over there since inception 16 years ago. The problem was that their original CEO was a left coast Washington assclown that thought it was a good idea for all senior admins on each team site to have IP access when on other sites as a way of cross checking trolls and alts from rivals sites ... because he was very anti-alt and trolls. He felt it caused board disruption on team sites and, when caught, that IP would be shackled and limited to the one site it was subscribed-to.

Problem was you had a bunch of assclowns petty senior admins running around stirring up shite and doxxing members out of revenge. And that was going on as far back as 2003-2004.

I doubt that software has changed much since then.

Jim Heckman took his engineers from Rivals with him when he started Scout, which was another woman before that but I can't remember ... but it really went South when he sold out to Fox Sports.

Shannon Terry bought Rivals and immediately set out to fix the same crossover security issues and he hired two or three senior admins for the entire network that served to monitor the entire network ... and that worked when working with designated team site admins.

Those were the board wars days and they were fricking ugly. A lot of shite went on back then that would get you put in jail these days.

Very interesting stuff, thanks for putting that together. Seems like an incredibly dumb way to engineer that part of the website.

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A lot of shite went on back then that would get you put in jail these days.

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I believe you, early internet, even 2003, was a bit of a Wild West. Genuinely curious as to an example.

There are no scout forums. 247 bought them a year ago.

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That's been going on over there for a long time.

The problem is admins from one site can see IPs on other team sites when they visit.

And wtf does it mean when you little shot noses say sites are Boomer sites? What I think it means? Us Baby Boomers use those sites?

Give me a break. We we're writing code and and tweaking script before y'all were born ... and we're not stupid.

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I was expecting a "when I had dinner with Bill Gates" or something similar in this post.