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Doggos [M] 149 points ago +153 / -4

Unstickying in 5 minutes

Just wanted to address the speculation from 15 minutes ago about either hack or bandwidth saving. Neither. Just a bug when a mod tried to change a flair.

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Doggos [M] 8 points ago +8 / -0

Absolutely not.

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Doggos [M] 14 points ago +14 / -0

Yes. Working on it. Took the site offline for a minute and traffic hasn't distributed nicely once back up (thus overloading some servers)

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Doggos [M] 4 points ago +4 / -0

The IP addresses are peppered. We do use them for matching accounts, so I don't think we can do more.

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Doggos [M] 17 points ago +17 / -0

We will not.

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Doggos [M] 13 points ago +13 / -0

We hash all IP addresses that we do store (which is just the latest one for each user, overwritten once we see a new one) and we don't require email addresses. Email addresses that we do receive are hashed, so they're useless except for matching with an input, the same as password.

Beyond that, it's a public forum so there's nothing that we can do.

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Doggos [M] 199 points ago +201 / -2

We may very well be top 100 in the U.S. - here's the logic:

The Gateway Pundit used to be ranked at about 9,000 in the world and 1,500 in the U.S. They then opted to verify their stats with Alexa by embedding an Amazon (Alexa being owned by Amazon) tracker in their site's code. This gives Alexa a better image of how much traffic a site receives. This brought them up to 700 in the world and 160 in the U.S. (none of this is an attack on TGP in any way, it's just a good comparison to estimate where we would actually rank)

We get at least twice as much traffic as them (60 million pageviews in the last week) so it's totally possible that we would be ranked much higher if we verified our stats, too.

(note: replies to stickied comments can only been seen after pressing "permalink" - this will be fixed soon)

by TylerG
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Doggos [M] 21 points ago +22 / -1

Present me any evidence and I'll (try to) prove it wrong.

by TylerG
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Doggos [M] 12 points ago +12 / -0

I'm pretty sure there's been a MAGAThread stickied at all times since election day.

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Doggos [M] 9 points ago +9 / -0

Disabled for a while. Big attack vector (DDoS)

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Doggos [M] 308 points ago +308 / -0

The PA Supreme Court has overruled the Commonwealth Court ruling favoring the Trump campaign on watching the mail in ballot count in Philadelphia.

The mail in counting is resuming.

(note: comments in response to stickied comments don't currently show up unless you click "permalink")

UPDATE: "There is no filing in the Pa Supreme Court and the Court has NOT overruled any action by the Commonwealth Court."

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Doggos [M] 4 points ago +4 / -0

May increase this limit today. Wanted to keep it low for election night spike. The traffic hasn't dropped from election night levels, but it's stable enough.

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Doggos [M] 10 points ago +10 / -0

We don't have the ability to shadowban users.

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Doggos [M] 13 points ago +13 / -0

🤞

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Doggos [M] 6 points ago +6 / -0

Yeah, it's not meant to. A moderator must have enabled it for this thread accidentally.

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