So, it seems people are finally getting used to the idea that I’ve stepped down. Among the first questions I always get asked in response to this is “Why?”. The primary reasons are already outlined above, but surely there’s more to it than that, you wonder? Of course.

1) People PMing you with inane questions
“Hi I am new here I saw you are a staff so can I ask how do I get rid of warning and download animes?”
“Hi I am warned how do I seed?”

2) IRC Tattletales
“kureshii .kb [Trollface] plox”

3) Being pinged for no reason whatsoever
“Oh you can ask kureshii he’s staff he should know”

4) Kids
Fuck you and your specified limits, admins always have their head too far up their ass […]
“I was seeding this torrent halfway why you delete pls give me a good reason or I will quit”

I believe the quotes explain each point clearly enough (although usually with worse grammar than in the above examples). These four things I certainly don’t miss in my newly-found normal-guy life 🙂

It seems the site came back up again while I was asleep; Leaseweb found we were no longer being spammed with heavy traffic, and reconnected us.

Not forgetting that we are being threatened with another DDoS in a week’s time (by the same guy), I will say it is probably too early to be thanking people and bringing things to a close, but I don’t want the rest of this week to go by without any appreciation from us either.

On the list of people to thank:
houkouonchi, our top seeder, for his usual generosity.
Torrentfreak et al., for their well-written coverage of the incident.
TD-Owner,
Mordae,
marcan,
Gottaname,
windex,
and many others, for your touching offers of assistance. Fortunately, they are not needed just yet.
(If you’d prefer not to be mentioned here, just drop me a PM on Rizon.)

This list is not exhaustive; I’ll update it as soon as I get more names from the other staff members.

Leech/seed what you can for now, and keep your fingers crossed!

P. S. I’ve managed to get a lot of anime-watching done during this downtime. I hope you have been spending your time productively too 🙂

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[Brought over from the other blog domain; comments have been left unimported]

Not much to say about the incident at this point, but I’ll just clarify some things on our side.

[ninja-edit]
By the way, we’re on IRC (#bakabt on irc.rizon.net). Feel free to drop by if you like (although most of the time we’re talking about things other than the DDoS).
You can use Rizon webchat, just register with nickserv (/msg nickserv register [password] [email]) and identify (/msg nickserv identify [password]) before joining (/join bakabt).
roffamaffia is here too, under the nick UchihaSasuke, so you can tell him how much you love him (/msg UchihaSasuke hello there).

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Spotted on IRC:

#bakabt-support
< User> Hmm may i know what is the command for downloading certain naruto episodes at bakabt?
< User> I was at the packlist page for it but can’t seem to find the specific command for it.
[awhile later]

#bakabt
<@kureshii> spotted in support channel: “Hmm may i know what is the command for downloading certain naruto episodes at bakabt?”
<@kureshii> ” I was at the packlist page for it but can’t seem to find the specific command for it.”
< Keyboard_Warrior> lol
< User> okay, that was mean. =/
* Keyboard_Warrior is laughing
<@kureshii> if you didn’t post a msg no one would have known it was you
< Path> 😡
< Keyboard_Warrior> User, when you say something stupid on irc
< Keyboard_Warrior> somebody will tell somebody else
<@kureshii> since the support channel only has staff members
<@kureshii> who don’t usually frequent this channel all that much, and usually won’t reveal names
< Keyboard_Warrior> kureshii, i usually quote stupid with nicks
<@kureshii> yeah, but i don’t
<@kureshii> this is the first time i’ve seen someone self-pwn though
-!- #bakabt – User [~user@hostmask] ([])

Note to IRC users: Don’t self-pwn. The support channel is populated only by staff. Don’t talk about the Fight Club, and you won’t give yourself away.