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Old 2013-05-09, 11:37   #12
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But when forum mods traced the IP address of Mr. "IDK what to do", they Googled that IP and found the Wikipedia activity, which includes multiple incidences of vandalism stretching back to at least last year (it attracted enough ire at Wikipedia that the IP in question is hard-banned for 14+ months). Wikipedia indicates that the IP address belongs to a school district in Conroe, Texas.

I agree that this could be the "work" of several students, but normally a concentrated campaign of this kind of behavior is generally the hallmark of one or two disgruntled students. Usually the fun of writing your name on a Wikipedia page dissolves pretty quickly after the first or second revert, unless you are, shall we say, "special". This moron has been doing this kind of thing for over a year on Wikipedia, and now he has taken the time to invade a highly specialized project such as GIMPS, where one would have to gather enough knowledge to even know *how* to "mess" with the system in the first place.

As I like to say, it's sad that parents aren't teaching their children shame anymore.
It's sad that most people in this forum are not willing to study the subject that they claim to be interested in.

Some people simply refuse to learn.
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Old 2013-05-09, 17:09   #13
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Sorry guys, I use a school computer to do allot of monitoring of my account. Someone found the page in the history on the school computer and must have done this. Not sure who it was, but I'll try and remove the site from the history and cache after I check my account (Fox_McCloud). But then again, I expected this from high school students -_-
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Old 2013-05-09, 18:29   #14
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Also, I asked the guy who did it. He said he didn't even make an account, he just altered the text in the URL after I logged out. Apparently, you can put whatever you want there and it will show it.

This is basically what he did http://imgur.com/PQE2bSc

Sorry for the confusion he caused. It was sorta my bad for leaving the page up after I updated a computer's settings.
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Old 2013-05-10, 11:49   #15
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So, is your school participating in GIMPS?
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Old 2013-05-10, 13:27   #16
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Yep, and I manage it. We use the computers that arn't otherwise used.
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Old 2013-05-10, 23:45   #17
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So, is your school participating in GIMPS?
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Yep, and I manage it. We use the computers that arn't otherwise used.
E-mail George and reference this thread. He can restore you.
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Old 2013-05-10, 23:53   #18
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Yep, and I manage it. We use the computers that arn't otherwise used.
Do you have permission for this usage?
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Old 2013-05-12, 02:35   #19
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E-mail George and reference this thread. He can restore you.
Account wasn't banned, he just altered the URL so the text would make it look like the account was banned. Then he took a screen shot and just posted it here for the kicks. No harm done on my end. He wasn't even on the account.
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