Can someone explain? They seem like some Myg0t or something from SL.
Well, from the amount of posts I have it's obvious I'm new.
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Eponuts Dancer
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08-17-2006 19:55
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Maeve Morgan
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08-17-2006 19:56
W-Hat is a group in SL from the Something Awful forums, they specialize in trolling and griefing.
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Isometric Bedlam
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08-17-2006 19:57
W-Hat is a group in SL from the Something Awful forums, they sepcialize in trolling and griefing. Check the SL Herald. They had a pretty accurate and fair representation without any media sensationalism of what w-hat is. |
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Eponuts Dancer
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08-17-2006 19:58
W-Hat is a group in SL from the Something Awful forums, they sepcialize in trolling and griefing. Oh, SA is a bunch of noob trolls. |
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SuezanneC Baskerville
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08-17-2006 20:27
http://w-hat.com
The official W-Hat channel is #sl on irc.zirc.org. http://w-hat.com/faq What is the point of having a 3 month membership in Something Awful? This selects for what? _____________________
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Kyrah Abattoir
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08-17-2006 22:25
aparently what members can build on the plots of baku, i assume that the forum membership pay a part of the land fee
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Uma Bauhaus
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08-17-2006 23:07
I hear they eat babies.
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Joy Honey
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08-17-2006 23:21
I hear they eat babies. Are you sure you don't have them mixed up with Atheists?  _____________________
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Jon Rolland
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08-17-2006 23:24
Are you sure you don't have them mixed up with Atheists? *burps* I don't eat babies... |
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Huns Valen
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08-18-2006 00:12
It's a group of people who have accounts on forums.somethingawful.com. The 3 month rule is to filter out people who just buy forum accounts to get into w-hat, which is a problem because then everything we say goes over their heads (because they don't know enough about the SA forums) and they tend to spout tired catchphrases and do other annoying things.
There are some griefers, but you're going to find griefers in any large group (and W-Hat numbers in the 100s.) The only thing that really unifies us is that we've had accounts on SA for 3+ months. Some people seem to think we are centrally organized, with some kind of leader who commands everyone to go out on griefing raids, but this is not the case - we're not a "military" style group. It's just a loose association of people who have SA forum accounts. _____________________
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Surina Skallagrimson
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08-18-2006 01:45
Some people seem to think we are centrally organized, with some kind of leader who commands everyone to go out on griefing raids, but this is not the case - Seems to me that there's a job opening here.. My rates are very competitive. Where do I apply? _____________________
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nimrod Yaffle
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08-18-2006 01:59
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Yiffy Yaffle
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08-18-2006 05:30
W-hat has been pretty quiet lately now 4 topics pop up about them and 3 got locked? They must have accidently added some more idiots to the group... Dispite what their website says i still find it to be a group containing griefers. Atleast i knew SOME decent intelligant people enrrolled in it, unlike that /b/ group. Ya know if i was ever in a group where people planned to grief with it, i would get out of it.. Not worth losing my account over that.
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Lupus Delacroix
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08-18-2006 06:57
hmmmm that guy from the other day, he wasn't even amusing.
I mean you can say many things about Something Awful, they are disgusting degenerates, BUT.... they are usually funny as hell at the very least. All that dweeb did was cuss, he needs to take some lessons from Daddy Lowtax. |
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Skye McArdle
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08-18-2006 08:28
Well, somebody needs to seriously look at the situation. Look at this post first...
/140/ce/130912/1.html then look at these... /108/37/130823/1.html /108/42/130821/1.html /108/e9/130830/1.html Are they able to take over accounts, or what? |
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Lost Newcomb
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08-18-2006 08:34
Issue is like this, W-hat has a key-database, to which some people upload files from their SecondLife folder.
Certain people choose to save their password in SL. Thus uploading these files put you at risk of having your account details exposed to anyone running a brute force on the upload or any other thing that LL used to hide them locally. _____________________
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Skye McArdle
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08-18-2006 08:42
Issue is like this, W-hat has a key-database, to which some people upload files from their SecondLife folder. Certain people choose to save their password in SL. Thus uploading these files put you at risk of having your account details exposed to anyone running a brute force on the upload or any other thing that LL used to hide them locally. So as long as one is not a member of the database and has not uploaded any file to their site, you're safe? |
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Jillian Callahan
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08-18-2006 08:49
Issue is like this, W-hat has a key-database, to which some people upload files from their SecondLife folder. Certain people choose to save their password in SL. Thus uploading these files put you at risk of having your account details exposed to anyone running a brute force on the upload or any other thing that LL used to hide them locally. To know your names - two thirds of your login - one only needs to see your name in-world. A weak password is extra dangerous in SL becasue of that. Everyone should change thier password regularly and often, and use passwords like "No98_Vakk024_283a". Your password is not stored in the names.cache file, which is the file that gets uploaded to the various name-to-key databases. _____________________
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Dianne Mechanique
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08-18-2006 09:17
W-Hats are griefers who all generally go to know each other from being involved in the Something Awful website and group.
They are your typical griefers in that they are primarily young men in their teens and 20's with a love of all things disgusting, destructive and awful and have no respect for authority, peoples feelings or pretty much anything but their own desires etc. etc.... *yawns* Here is a picture of a couple of typical W-Hat members in RL (note the hats)   _____________________
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Veiner Austinmer
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08-18-2006 09:33
They are your typical griefers in that they are primarily young men in their teens and 20's with a love of all things disgusting, destructive and awful and have no respect for authority, peoples feelings or pretty much anything but their own desires etc. etc.... *yawns* Here is a picture of a couple of typical W-Hat members in RL (note the hats) It's true. _____________________
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Lupus Delacroix
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08-18-2006 09:34
I could join W-hat if I wanted, I meet all the requirements. I think my SomethingAwful forum account dates back to 2002 (Granted I've only got like 3 or 4 posts). Just never really had the urge. Hell I played UO with Lowtax back in the day
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Kerian Bunin
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08-18-2006 13:23
I could join W-hat if I wanted, I meet all the requirements. I think my SomethingAwful forum account dates back to 2002 (Granted I've only got like 3 or 4 posts). Just never really had the urge. Hell I played UO with Lowtax back in the day Dooo it. |
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PinkRose Garden
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08-18-2006 13:35
I had never seen their site before. I about fell out of my chair laughing. I live in fudo and my best friend has property in baku right next to them. they are racist GIVE me a break. Main reason I have banned them, any of them I see on my land is automatically banned. They have shot at us. Not just a few, it's the majority of them since I have banned large groups of them at times, large meaning 10 at a time.
luckily lately their land has been quite, hoping it stays that way. Hopefully with all the abuse reports most of them are gone. |
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Yiffy Yaffle
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08-18-2006 15:50
the w-hat key2name database isn't something i like. But it is so easy to get someones UUID all you gota do is stand next to them. Thank goodness UUIDs dont really do anything. Just allow people to spam you with notecards and items... You can mute most of that sheit... Now the file you upload COULD contain info to allow them to hack you, i'm not sure. I haven't really taken a look at it. I personally never will upload one cuz i don't wish to help this database grow... My UUID has already been added to their system. I saw it already. So yea.. Nothing we can do about it sadly...
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windozer Vargas
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08-18-2006 15:54
the one in the front page,2nd screenshot is a known land swooper
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