User:Aichon/Archive 2016
Announcement: I'm no longer active. My talk page is still your best bet to get in touch. —Aichon— 04:39, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
If you have anything you'd like to add to one of these conversations, then go to my talk page, reference the relevant conversation from here, and post your comments there. This page should not be edited by others. These are all messages I've filed away. They shouldn't be changed or added to, since the contexts of the situations have been lost, forgotten, or could simply be remembered differently by the involved parties. I'd prefer to start any of these conversations fresh, if they must come up again.
Thanks
Thanks once again for coming to the rescue, I saw that same formatting i n meeso sorrys page where I took the idea from but dont know how to code or anything so was really just tinkering to the best of my (extremely limited) capability. Once again thank you for helping me and not rubbing in my face how much of a pagebreaking fool I am. - Levi R 19:52, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
- No worries. I'm just sorry it took me a few hours to swing back through and get the fix in place so it could be re-posted, since I don't like it when I leave people hanging after deleting their ad. Work kept me busy though, so it took a bit of time before I could look at it.
- Oh, and for future reference, most templates have examples posted on their pages or talk pages, showing how they should be used. That's what happened to be the case here with the template you were using. I only knew what to do because I copy/pasted the template's example code and inserted the numbers you had come up with already. ;) —Aichon— 19:58, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
Range blocks?
Hey Aich! I think I've gotten all the individual accounts and IPs involved in today's massive bot influx, but I wanted to poke you in case you can look at the block log and see if any IP ranges should be blocked. Thanks! Bob Moncrief EBD•W! 14:28, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
- Will do, though it'll probably be tomorrow. I'm just poking my head in quick enough to reply and hadn't even seen the bot activity yet. —Aichon— 15:27, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
- So, I see a number of ranges that could be blocked, but I'm not sure which, if any, we actually want to block. As a quick primer, IP ranges are typically expressed with an address and a prefix length, such as 192.168.0.0/8, /16, or /24. They don't have to be in multiples of 8, but multiples of 8 are the most common, since an IP address can be expressed in 32 bits with 8 bits for each of the numbers, so multiples of 8 align nicely with the numbers in IP addresses. So, /8 would mean that we only pay attention to the first number (i.e. 192.*.*.*), /16 means just the first two numbers (i.e. 192.168.*.*), and /24 means the first three (192.168.0.*), but you can actually do stuff like /19 (i.e. 192.168.0.* - 192.168.31.*), if you want to get down to the bits themselves.
- You blocked 61 IP addresses yesterday (plus hundreds of individual accounts, of course). Of the addresses, I see a /20 that covers 115 of the spam accounts and about 20 of the IP addresses, and another /19 that nails 97 of the accounts and another 20-ish IP addresses. Given how fast this was coming in and that these are mostly or entirely US-based IPs, I'm inclined to think this was the work of a botnet, so we'd likely be blocking unknowing participants, rather than a spam mill. Even so, I don't see any valid accounts showing up in checkuser in those ranges, so I'm going to go ahead and block those two ranges, that way we'll have a leg up if they start up again. —Aichon— 20:18, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
Big Bash
Some of us at NecroConnect are talking about bringing back the big bash, and I heard you've helped with it in the past. Interested in helping? -Jerran1 NecroConnect Creator/Admin 23:51, 28 January 2016 (UTC) 
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- I'll stop by the topic at NecroConnect where I see you guys talking about it and will chime in with my two cents. I'll also see if I can track down Bosch and Vapor to poke them about it too. —Aichon— 16:29, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
- (Was the real secret goal of this discussion to get Aichon to join NecroConnect? Shhh...) Bob Moncrief EBD•W! 16:54, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
- probably... This also couldve been accomplished a long time ago by telling him something was faulty with the coding :p Commandant Romero (talk) 17:47, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
- (Was the real secret goal of this discussion to get Aichon to join NecroConnect? Shhh...) Bob Moncrief EBD•W! 16:54, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
Hey just chiming in to say I talked to Aichon, read the forum thread and agree with pretty much everything he said. I still have admin access to the Facebook page. If another one happens and you want that kind of coverage, I'd be willing to add access to the right person. But I've quit UD now, and for some time now. I'd wake up my Bash zombie for another go around probably but that's about the extent of the activity I'd devote to it I'm afraid. I had a lot of fun with it but never again. ~
16:48, 31 January 2016, The year of our lord (UTC)
