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Re: Existential crisis at Encyclopedia Dramatica

Unread post by Beeblebrox » Sat Oct 05, 2019 1:47 am

I'm left wondering who, exactly, is clamoring for its return?
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Unread post by Zoloft » Sat Oct 05, 2019 2:12 am

Beeblebrox wrote:I'm left wondering who, exactly, is clamoring for its return?
If I want to read a bunch of nasty, mean-spirited horseshit I'll join a neighborhood Facebook group.
Or become a moderator on this site.

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Re: Existential crisis at Encyclopedia Dramatica

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Zoloft wrote:
Beeblebrox wrote:I'm left wondering who, exactly, is clamoring for its return?
If I want to read a bunch of nasty, mean-spirited horseshit I'll join a neighborhood Facebook group.
Or become a moderator on this site.
Pity the poor bastards trying to moderate Wikipedia Sucks...

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Re: Existential crisis at Encyclopedia Dramatica

Unread post by Midsize Jake » Sat Oct 05, 2019 5:49 am

Beeblebrox wrote:I'm left wondering who, exactly, is clamoring for its return?
Like I always say when someone asks this question, it's not a matter of who specifically is clamoring for its return, it's a matter of how many people are dreading its return. As long as there's at least one, then hell or high water, they'll get it back up and running.

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Re: Existential crisis at Encyclopedia Dramatica

Unread post by Poetlister » Sat Oct 05, 2019 4:19 pm

Believe it or not, some people imagine that ED is funny. And of course it's a marvellous place for a certain type of troll (of which alas there is no shortage) to edit.
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Re: Existential crisis at Encyclopedia Dramatica

Unread post by 10920 » Sat Oct 05, 2019 5:26 pm

ED down for over a month? I'm surprised this is the first I'm hearing about it.

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Re: Existential crisis at Encyclopedia Dramatica

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Randy from Boise wrote:
Zoloft wrote:
Beeblebrox wrote:I'm left wondering who, exactly, is clamoring for its return?
If I want to read a bunch of nasty, mean-spirited horseshit I'll join a neighborhood Facebook group.
Or become a moderator on this site.
Pity the poor bastards trying to moderate Wikipedia Sucks...

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Midsize Jake wrote:
Beeblebrox wrote:I'm left wondering who, exactly, is clamoring for its return?
Like I always say when someone asks this question, it's not a matter of who specifically is clamoring for its return, it's a matter of how many people are dreading its return. As long as there's at least one, then hell or high water, they'll get it back up and running.
Good point.

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Re: Existential crisis at Encyclopedia Dramatica

Unread post by Poetlister » Sat Oct 05, 2019 6:34 pm

10920 wrote:ED down for over a month? I'm surprised this is the first I'm hearing about it.
It's scarcely the first time. More than one host has asked them, politely or otherwise, to leave.
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Re: Existential crisis at Encyclopedia Dramatica

Unread post by Ming » Sun Oct 06, 2019 8:26 pm

10920 wrote:
Randy from Boise wrote:Pity the poor bastards trying to moderate Wikipedia Sucks...

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There are moderators?
They are more like the moderators in nuclear reactors, to keep the reaction going. No control rods, though.

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Re: Existential crisis at Encyclopedia Dramatica

Unread post by Vigilant » Sun Oct 06, 2019 11:33 pm

Ming wrote:
10920 wrote:
Randy from Boise wrote:Pity the poor bastards trying to moderate Wikipedia Sucks...

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There are moderators?
They are more like the moderators in nuclear reactors, to keep the reaction going. No control rods, though.
When people are too nuts, they get kicked to the curb.

Merkey and Abd are two people who've been banned from ED.
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Re: Existential crisis at Encyclopedia Dramatica

Unread post by Poetlister » Mon Oct 07, 2019 8:13 am

Vigilant wrote:When people are too nuts, they get kicked to the curb.

Merkey and Abd are two people who've been banned from ED.
People there also get penalised for being too sane. It's a classic case of an asylum run by the inmates.
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Re: Existential crisis at Encyclopedia Dramatica

Unread post by Michaeldsuarez » Wed Oct 09, 2019 1:35 am

ED is back, but it's at "encyclopediadramatica.rs" now.

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Re: Existential crisis at Encyclopedia Dramatica

Unread post by tarantino » Wed Oct 09, 2019 1:50 am

Michaeldsuarez wrote:ED is back, but it's at "encyclopediadramatica.rs" now.
That's where it was before it went down. It still gives a cloudflare gateway time-out error, and encyclopediadramatica.es is a parked domain.

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Re: Existential crisis at Encyclopedia Dramatica

Unread post by Michaeldsuarez » Wed Oct 09, 2019 3:24 pm

tarantino wrote:
Michaeldsuarez wrote:ED is back, but it's at "encyclopediadramatica.rs" now.
That's where it was before it went down. It still gives a cloudflare gateway time-out error, and encyclopediadramatica.es is a parked domain.
Sorry, I meant to type "encyclopediadramatica.se".

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Re: Existential crisis at Encyclopedia Dramatica

Unread post by Poetlister » Wed Oct 09, 2019 8:20 pm

Michaeldsuarez wrote:
tarantino wrote:
Michaeldsuarez wrote:ED is back, but it's at "encyclopediadramatica.rs" now.
That's where it was before it went down. It still gives a cloudflare gateway time-out error, and encyclopediadramatica.es is a parked domain.
Sorry, I meant to type "encyclopediadramatica.se".
Hasn't it been there before? The underlying IP seems to be 104.26.6.220,which is CLOUDFLARE.
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Re: Existential crisis at Encyclopedia Dramatica

Unread post by Daniel Brandt » Wed Oct 09, 2019 11:54 pm

ED will take a hit on their Google rankings by switching the TLD. I think it was way back in 2012 or so that they last used .SE

site:encyclopediadramatica.rs -- About 71,200 results
site:encyclopediadramatica.se -- About 8,980 results

site:encyclopediadramatica.rs "daniel brandt" -- About 1,130 results
site:encyclopediadramatica.se "daniel brandt" -- About 24 results

It will take time for Google to shovel all that dirt from .RS back to the .SE TLD. Thank God for that musician namesake in Germany, who keeps me buried deep down on Google regardless.

As for Cloudflare, they don't make much of an effort to purge inactive domains.


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Re: Existential crisis at Encyclopedia Dramatica

Unread post by Daniel Brandt » Mon Nov 04, 2019 2:54 pm

So the only person who will have direct physical access to ED's servers is under federal indictment in the U.S. for something or other? This does not bode well for ED's future.

Beyond that, I feel that choosing Sweden's ".SE" TLD is a risky choice. My impression is that they run a tight ship on that TLD, about as tight as Switzerland's ".CH" TLD. Switzerland dumped ED back when Ryan Cleary was active, in response to outside pressure.

Moreover, Sweden is a member of the European Union, unlike Switzerland. This provides additional leverage for possible future pressure on the ".SE" TLD. I'm thinking in terms of new EU laws, such as the "right to be forgotten" (applies only in the EU), stronger copyright laws in EU countries (EU countries have two years to get their local laws in compliance with the new EU copyright laws), and also the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) in the EU.

On top of all this, we all know that articles on ED generally assume that racism is a topic that requires boundless humor. Sweden is more sensitive to this issue than they used to be, because they've been inviting more than their share of refugees into the country. Citizens of Sweden are beginning to feel that their country is on the road to increased destabilization, according to news reports.

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Re: Existential crisis at Encyclopedia Dramatica

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Randy from Boise wrote:
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Beeblebrox wrote:I'm left wondering who, exactly, is clamoring for its return?
If I want to read a bunch of nasty, mean-spirited horseshit I'll join a neighborhood Facebook group.
Or become a moderator on this site.
Pity the poor bastards trying to moderate Wikipedia Sucks...

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Re: Existential crisis at Encyclopedia Dramatica

Unread post by Poetlister » Mon Nov 04, 2019 5:37 pm

Daniel Brandt wrote:On top of all this, we all know that articles on ED generally assume that racism is a topic that requires boundless humor. Sweden is more sensitive to this issue than they used to be, because they've been inviting more than their share of refugees into the country. Citizens of Sweden are beginning to feel that their country is on the road to increased destabilization, according to news reports.
Yes, my contacts in Sweden get very annoyed at the constant suggestions that there are no-go areas, or even a raging civil war, due to the influx of immigrants.
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Re: Existential crisis at Encyclopedia Dramatica

Unread post by Daniel Brandt » Mon Nov 04, 2019 7:53 pm

There's more on Mr. Rockenhaus here: http://conradrockenhaus.net/

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Re: Existential crisis at Encyclopedia Dramatica

Unread post by Katie » Mon Nov 04, 2019 7:59 pm

Conrad Rockenhaus also runs two honestly embarrassing promotional blogs about himself: linkhttps://conradrockenhaus1982.wordpress.com/[/link] and linkhttp://conrad-rockenhaus-talented.blogspot.com/[/link].

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Re: Existential crisis at Encyclopedia Dramatica

Unread post by Daniel Brandt » Thu Nov 07, 2019 9:49 pm

More drama at Dramatica. There has been much cross-connecting and many referrals between two private /24 blocks during the last month as ED goes through rebirthing pains. One block is 103.114.191.0/24 which is owned by Joshua Moon. The other is 23.133.240.0/24 owned by Conrad Rockenhaus. There are still some redirects from one (*.rs) to the other (*.se), but the two Cloudflare DNS servers are the same now for both origin IPs.

It looks like Mr. Rockenhaus is more mature than Mr. Moon, and I'm happy that the trend is settling toward him and not Moon. By the way, the ED forum is back now, and they've already discovered Wikipediocracy.

It occurred to me that maybe Mr. Moon noticed that ED was up for grabs, and tried to snatch it from Mr. Rockenhaus. That would explain why its online presence has been unstable during the last two months.

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Re: Existential crisis at Encyclopedia Dramatica

Unread post by Poetlister » Fri Nov 08, 2019 2:38 pm

Daniel Brandt wrote:By the way, the ED forum is back now, and they've already discovered Wikipediocracy.
Good, maybe that will attract more readers. :) Do we have any idea who Bong17590 is?
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Re: Existential crisis at Encyclopedia Dramatica

Unread post by Daniel Brandt » Sat Nov 09, 2019 3:41 pm

More on the situation with /24 blocks:

https://www.arin.net/resources/guide/ipv4/waiting_list/

https://www.arin.net/reference/materials/abuse/

"ARIN is NOT able to investigate or stop unwanted network activity."

...and if you ever get your /24 block, you might have to deal with
"advertising" your block via BGP (Border Gateway Protocol).

https://blog.cdemi.io/beginners-guide-t ... nding-bgp/

All this is enough to make your head hurt!

My impression is that it makes much more sense to check out
the abuse policies of the TLD (top level domain) registrar.

For .rs see: https://www.petosevic.com/resources/news/2016/08/3504

For .se see: https://www.eurodns.com/domain-extensio ... gistration

Note that Sweden is a member of the European Union, while
Serbia's application to the EU is still pending (the process
takes years). Some European Union officials are aware of the
situation with Cloudflare, and its abuse of copyright laws.

Speculation has it that Cloudflare's opening of an office
this year in Portugal (an EU member) may have been a legal
maneuver. Would this give them more standing to fight the
EU by confusing the issue when Brexit happens? CF has an
office in London, with about 150 employees there.

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Re: Existential crisis at Encyclopedia Dramatica

Unread post by conradrock » Fri Nov 29, 2019 1:48 am

Midsize Jake wrote:
Sat Oct 05, 2019 12:03 am
Just for a bit of background, Mr. Rockenhaus (Conradrock (T-C-L) on Wikipedia) apparently was unhappy with one or more of the people at the naval hospital he was going to, and wanted to get into a special program for wounded veterans instead. Unfortunately, he had never been wounded, and had never even been deployed into a combat zone, so he felt compelled to try and forge some documentation showing that he had received four medals - including a Purple Heart - hence the four counts of "wearing an unauthorized ribbon or device." The case docket is available on the US Navy's website.

Unfortunately, the docket doesn't provide any details about the medical condition he wanted better treatment for, so we might never know if God actually looked into the future, realized Mr. Rockenhaus would someday attempt to bring Encyclopedia Dramatica back online, and then decided to smite him pre-emptively.
This was actually overturned by the convening officer, because in my clemency statement, and the providing documentation, we provided that my discharging conditions (TBI and TBI related epilepsy with a monthly occurrence of seizures) guaranteed me 100% pension and blew the Trial Counsel's case to smithereens. So I receive my 100% VA Service Compensation, I receive VA Medical Care, and my family receives TRICARE. Thank you.

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Re: Existential crisis at Encyclopedia Dramatica

Unread post by conradrock » Fri Nov 29, 2019 1:49 am

tarantino wrote:
Sun Nov 03, 2019 8:23 pm
The Feds issued a sealed indictment against Rockenhaus in August, around the same time that ED went down. He was arrested, then released.

He's now planning on hosting ED on his own servers. Hmm.
Hmmm, if you took your tin foil hat off for once and actually paid for a PACER subscription, you would see that my company hosting ED would have no relevance in this case.

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Re: Existential crisis at Encyclopedia Dramatica

Unread post by conradrock » Fri Nov 29, 2019 1:53 am

Daniel Brandt wrote:
Mon Nov 04, 2019 2:54 pm
So the only person who will have direct physical access to ED's servers is under federal indictment in the U.S. for something or other? This does not bode well for ED's future.

Beyond that, I feel that choosing Sweden's ".SE" TLD is a risky choice. My impression is that they run a tight ship on that TLD, about as tight as Switzerland's ".CH" TLD. Switzerland dumped ED back when Ryan Cleary was active, in response to outside pressure.

Moreover, Sweden is a member of the European Union, unlike Switzerland. This provides additional leverage for possible future pressure on the ".SE" TLD. I'm thinking in terms of new EU laws, such as the "right to be forgotten" (applies only in the EU), stronger copyright laws in EU countries (EU countries have two years to get their local laws in compliance with the new EU copyright laws), and also the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) in the EU.

On top of all this, we all know that articles on ED generally assume that racism is a topic that requires boundless humor. Sweden is more sensitive to this issue than they used to be, because they've been inviting more than their share of refugees into the country. Citizens of Sweden are beginning to feel that their country is on the road to increased destabilization, according to news reports.
I'm not the only one with physical access, my other employees hold physical access. I would say dealing with their registarm they weren't concerned by ED's content at all. Their concerns are Spam and child porn.

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Re: Existential crisis at Encyclopedia Dramatica

Unread post by conradrock » Fri Nov 29, 2019 2:01 am

Daniel Brandt wrote:
Thu Nov 07, 2019 9:49 pm
More drama at Dramatica. There has been much cross-connecting and many referrals between two private /24 blocks during the last month as ED goes through rebirthing pains. One block is 103.114.191.0/24 which is owned by Joshua Moon. The other is 23.133.240.0/24 owned by Conrad Rockenhaus. There are still some redirects from one (*.rs) to the other (*.se), but the two Cloudflare DNS servers are the same now for both origin IPs.

It looks like Mr. Rockenhaus is more mature than Mr. Moon, and I'm happy that the trend is settling toward him and not Moon. By the way, the ED forum is back now, and they've already discovered Wikipediocracy.

It occurred to me that maybe Mr. Moon noticed that ED was up for grabs, and tried to snatch it from Mr. Rockenhaus. That would explain why its online presence has been unstable during the last two months.
Let's get one thing clear - 23.133.240.0/24 is owned by GreyPonyIT, LLC. not by me personally. I run a hosting company.

Secondly, the only thing involved with any other IP addresses was when the previous administrator gave the new owner access to the ed.rs domain.

It's not some big conspiracy. I created my company, GreyPony, LLC to allow anyone access to an open network, open communication, without censorship, one of the pillars of Libertarianism. I've read you called yourself a Libertarian once Brandt, yet all day you scheme to exploit personal information and now you're targeting a legitimate Disabled Veteran Small Business just because of a website we host?

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Re: Existential crisis at Encyclopedia Dramatica

Unread post by conradrock » Fri Nov 29, 2019 2:07 am

Daniel Brandt wrote:
Sat Nov 09, 2019 3:41 pm
More on the situation with /24 blocks:

https://www.arin.net/resources/guide/ipv4/waiting_list/

https://www.arin.net/reference/materials/abuse/

"ARIN is NOT able to investigate or stop unwanted network activity."

...and if you ever get your /24 block, you might have to deal with
"advertising" your block via BGP (Border Gateway Protocol).

https://blog.cdemi.io/beginners-guide-t ... nding-bgp/

All this is enough to make your head hurt!

My impression is that it makes much more sense to check out
the abuse policies of the TLD (top level domain) registrar.

For .rs see: https://www.petosevic.com/resources/news/2016/08/3504

For .se see: https://www.eurodns.com/domain-extensio ... gistration

Note that Sweden is a member of the European Union, while
Serbia's application to the EU is still pending (the process
takes years). Some European Union officials are aware of the
situation with Cloudflare, and its abuse of copyright laws.

Speculation has it that Cloudflare's opening of an office
this year in Portugal (an EU member) may have been a legal
maneuver. Would this give them more standing to fight the
EU by confusing the issue when Brexit happens? CF has an
office in London, with about 150 employees there.
Wow, to explain it to you simply -

ARIN assigns IP addresses and ASNs to organizations that purchase them. They don't provide connectivity, therefore they have no abuse to deal with.

NICs have authority over their registered names, however, there's a period of due process that has to take before a board before they can take that domain name. They decision can be appealed to IANA. If the IANA appeal is unsuccessful, there's other legal steps.

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Re: Existential crisis at Encyclopedia Dramatica

Unread post by Midsize Jake » Fri Nov 29, 2019 7:41 am

conradrock wrote:
Fri Nov 29, 2019 2:01 am
...all day you scheme to exploit personal information and now you're targeting a legitimate Disabled Veteran Small Business just because of a website we host?
Somebody has to do it.

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Re: Existential crisis at Encyclopedia Dramatica

Unread post by conradrock » Fri Nov 29, 2019 1:27 pm

Midsize Jake wrote:
Fri Nov 29, 2019 7:41 am
conradrock wrote:
Fri Nov 29, 2019 2:01 am
...all day you scheme to exploit personal information and now you're targeting a legitimate Disabled Veteran Small Business just because of a website we host?
Somebody has to do it.
So, you're saying a hosting provider is responsible for the traffic that passes through their systems? If you are, that's a highly inaccurate statement here in the USA, but it's an accurate statement in countries such as China.

I don't own ED, I host them, along with several other customers and people who host high bandwidth Tor nodes. So, put your conspiracy theories where they belong and shove them.

Oh, and I will add - judging by some of the characters here, it's amusing that you stoop to the level of trying to drive companies out of business because you don't agree with the ideals of one of it's customers. It's a parody/shock site, something that completely lost on most of you.

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Re: Existential crisis at Encyclopedia Dramatica

Unread post by tarantino » Fri Nov 29, 2019 7:42 pm

conradrock wrote:
Fri Nov 29, 2019 1:27 pm
I don't own ED, I host them, along with several other customers and people who host high bandwidth Tor nodes. So, put your conspiracy theories where they belong and shove them.

Oh, and I will add - judging by some of the characters here, it's amusing that you stoop to the level of trying to drive companies out of business because you don't agree with the ideals of one of it's customers. It's a parody/shock site, something that completely lost on most of you.
You may not "own" ED, but you're more intimately involved than just being a hosting provider.

And no one here is trying to put you out of business.

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Re: Existential crisis at Encyclopedia Dramatica

Unread post by Midsize Jake » Fri Nov 29, 2019 8:39 pm

I think it's fair to say that Mr. Brandt has been trying to put them out of business, more or less... : :ermm:

My point there was that if there aren't people out there actively hating Encyclopaedia Dramatica, what would be the rationale for its existence? It's obviously much more than just a "shock/parody" site, because it specifically attacks people whom nobody outside of specific internet communities have ever heard of, and then routinely identifies them in a way that would hugely increase their visibility via Google et al, were it not for so many people trying to squelch them. In that sense, it provides a vital service to society (the real-life version, at least) in that it gives anyone thinking of joining those communities a really good reason not to.

I'm not saying ED should be taken down or "obliterated" or anything of the sort (though I'm OK with it being blacklisted by search engines). What I am saying is that if you run a site like that and somehow expect everyone to think you're just perfectly innocent businessperson, you're either totally dishonest or completely delusional (or both); and if you're telling someone who has been directly affected by ED content that he/she has no right to be upset about it, then you're just insulting our intelligence. (And everybody knows I don't like it when people insult our intelligence, even in cases where it's actually warranted.)

That kind of pushback has to be, by necessity, part of the ED business model. (It should probably be treated as more of a opportunity-generating mechanism than anything else, really.) If they're going to pretend otherwise, then they'd be better-advised to just not respond to the pushback at all.

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Re: Existential crisis at Encyclopedia Dramatica

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Unread post by Daniel Brandt » Sun Dec 01, 2019 3:05 am

Midsize Jake wrote:I think it's fair to say that Mr. Brandt has been trying to put them out of business, more or less...
I'd be satisfied if they just took down their page about me. I'll still keep after Cloudflare if that happens, but I'd start to lose interest in ED.

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Re: Existential crisis at Encyclopedia Dramatica

Unread post by Poetlister » Sun Dec 01, 2019 1:47 pm

Daniel Brandt wrote:
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Midsize Jake wrote:I think it's fair to say that Mr. Brandt has been trying to put them out of business, more or less...
I'd be satisfied if they just took down their page about me. I'll still keep after Cloudflare if that happens, but I'd start to lose interest in ED.
Even if they deleted your page, you might crop up elsewhere in a coathanger article.
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Re: Existential crisis at Encyclopedia Dramatica

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conradrock wrote:
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tarantino wrote:
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The Feds issued a sealed indictment against Rockenhaus in August, around the same time that ED went down. He was arrested, then released.

He's now planning on hosting ED on his own servers. Hmm.
Hmmm, if you took your tin foil hat off for once and actually paid for a PACER subscription, you would see that my company hosting ED would have no relevance in this case.
Oops
FYI: Encyclopedia Dramatica is down because our admin is in jail and didn't give anyone the password.

(He's not in jail for anything site related. He's in jail for forgery)
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this is just how the site always operates. this is the third out of 5 admins that went to jail.
possibly 4th. I'm not sure about one of them.
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CORRECTION:
I was informed he isn't in jail for forgery. That's a PREVIOUS crime he committed. We don't know what he did this time because it's a sealed indictment but, whatever it is, it's a federal offense.
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looks like he hacked into a computer of a company that fired him to trick them into hiring him again.

allegedly
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Re: Existential crisis at Encyclopedia Dramatica

Unread post by Giraffe Stapler » Fri Jan 17, 2020 5:28 pm

If the haus is rocken', don't come a knockin'. Unless you're the cops or the feds.

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Re: Existential crisis at Encyclopedia Dramatica

Unread post by Daniel Brandt » Fri Jan 17, 2020 11:21 pm

Conradrock's departure was not very graceful. Perhaps the feds walked away with his computers to look for evidence. Judges give the FBI anything they need, and a search warrant would be easy if the FBI is on the case. You can't do a forensic examination of a computer onsite -- you have to ship it to a specialist.

The reason I say that it wasn't graceful is that Cloudflare keeps trying, but reports that it cannot connect. Pulling the wires out of a computer and carrying it off would have the effect on ED connectivity that I'm seeing. There are two more months remaining on the domain name registered in Sweden, which means that this not a problem. Also, the folks that give out those /24 blocks have nothing to do with hardware, and the FBI wouldn't bother with them at all.

I would have expected something like a simple page that says, "Hang in there folks, just a little problem that will be fixed shortly."

But maybe Conradrock didn't have the time to do this.

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Re: Existential crisis at Encyclopedia Dramatica

Unread post by Michaeldsuarez » Fri Jan 24, 2020 2:01 pm

ED will be back:

https://www.reddit.com/r/encyclopediadramatica/comments/et6dmp/ed_will_brb/

Although I suspect that all 2019 revisions might be gone :/

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Unread post by Poetlister » Fri Jan 24, 2020 3:45 pm

Michaeldsuarez wrote:
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Although I suspect that all 2019 revisions might be gone :/
Would that be a good thing or a bad thing? :B'
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https://esos.nv.gov/EntitySearch/BusinessInformation
Entity Name: ENCYCLOPEDIA DRAMATICA LLC
Entity Number: E4292822020-1
Entity Type: Domestic Limited-Liability Company (86)
Entity Status: Active
Formation Date: 01/21/2020
NV Business ID: NV20201695551
Termination Date: Perpetual
Annual Report Due Date: 1/31/2021

OFFICER INFORMATION
Managing Member Jacob Stellmach 401 Ryland St. STE 200-A, Reno, NV, 89502, USA 01/21/2020 Active
Who is Jacob STELLMACH?
He is a "TECHNiCAL ANALYST AND DARKNET RESEARCHER."
he "CREATEs PROJECTS PEOPLE LiKE YOU CAN BELiEVE iN."

He also is a founder of a short-lived cryptocurrency scam.
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ED Government = CEO Aediot • Queen of The Internet Adezero • Lord of Flies Expatriot

Aediot is Stellmach. Adezero is Stellmach's girlfriend, AKA Adrienne Hein, Adrienne Blair and Adrienne Misty. Coincidentally, Adezero used to be the girlfriend of Brian Zaiger, who ran a previous version of ED.

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Unread post by Poetlister » Wed Mar 04, 2020 9:22 pm

tarantino wrote:
Wed Mar 04, 2020 8:30 pm
Coincidentally, Adezero used to be the girlfriend of Brian Zaiger, who ran a previous version of ED.
I suppose she left him in disgust when he let ED fail before, and Stellmach wooed her with promises to restore it. Love moves in strange ways. :D
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Re: Existential crisis at Encyclopedia Dramatica

Unread post by Giraffe Stapler » Wed Mar 04, 2020 10:00 pm

tarantino wrote:
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He also is a founder of a short-lived cryptocurrency scam.
Perfectly ordinary man in a suit David Gerard had this to say about Xerxes Contract:
A blatant Ponzi scheme ICO: xerxescontract.io is a high-yield investment programme, literally promising 200% annual returns. Where do they get these remarkable sums of money? Vague and nonspecific “arbitrage”, which was literally what Pirateat40 claimed for his 2012 Bitcoin Ponzi (see chapter 4 of the book). They have an ICO for initial buy-in. I searched on the names and photos in the white paper and was actually surprised not to find the usual string of prior fraud convictions.

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Unread post by Poetlister » Thu Mar 05, 2020 4:22 pm

I searched on the names and photos in the white paper and was actually surprised not to find the usual string of prior fraud convictions.
Maybe they've managed to change their identities to cover up their previous convictions.
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Re: Existential crisis at Encyclopedia Dramatica

Unread post by adezero » Wed Apr 01, 2020 7:30 pm

tarantino wrote:
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Adezero is Stellmach's girlfriend
Thanks for doxing me, dick.

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Re: Existential crisis at Encyclopedia Dramatica

Unread post by adezero » Wed Apr 01, 2020 7:31 pm

Poetlister wrote:
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Stellmach wooed her with promises to restore it. Love moves in strange ways. :D
That’s not accurate. I leveraged my old ED connections to help Aediot piece the resources together to rebuild the site - he really wanted to bring it back.
Aediot and I are not together anymore, but I do wish him and ED well.

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Re: Existential crisis at Encyclopedia Dramatica

Unread post by Poetlister » Wed Apr 01, 2020 8:05 pm

:welcome: Adezero, and thanks for the clarification.
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