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Posted: 10/22/2023 10:26:39 AM EDT
[#1]
Boredom, retirement, unemployment, or plain old fuckery.
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Posted: 10/22/2023 10:28:19 AM EDT
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Old accounts getting hacked.
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Posted: 10/22/2023 10:28:37 AM EDT
[#3]
I pretty much lurked until the lockdowns then decided it was more fun to be involved.
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Posted: 10/22/2023 10:28:59 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Old accounts getting hacked. We are in the age of information warefare. This. |
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Posted: 10/22/2023 10:29:45 AM EDT
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plus 1
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Posted: 10/22/2023 10:29:59 AM EDT
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I have no doubt that long-time members are suddenly becoming politically active along with the rest of the country and need a place to vent. However, if ar15.com has ever had a data leak, I wouldn’t be surprised if a minority of these cold accounts were bought by our adversaries to influence elections.
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Posted: 10/22/2023 10:30:20 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: plus 1 Good to see you bro. Give Saladin hell. |
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Posted: 10/22/2023 10:30:31 AM EDT
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Quoted: For a while I have noticed OLD ACCOUNTS with low post counts suddenly posting heavily in political type threads. Just wondering what makes a person suffer through 20+ years barely to not posting, with plenty of political events, and suddenly majorly interested in political goings on. It baffles me. No one thread mind you, for months if not a couple years, very low post counts suddenly chiming in politically numerous times in those threads. Welcomes low post count, old accounts offering insight into what made you decide to ramp up your posting? Just curious about the mindset, what changed in you to want to get political in this day and age? 20 years ago, people had different ideas about what a good password should be. 20 years ago the account holder had a kid who is now a leftist idiot who had to clean up the deceased dad's electronic stuff. I bet if staff had a log of password change requests there is always one right before the start of the prolific posting. All it takes is access to an email address with an account here. Point them out, berate them, then put them on ignore. |
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Posted: 10/22/2023 10:31:10 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Old accounts getting hacked. |
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Posted: 10/22/2023 10:32:14 AM EDT
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Agents being ordered to be more involved .
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Posted: 10/22/2023 10:32:59 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 20 years is a long time to hack an account. 20 years ago, people had different ideas about what a good password should be. 20 years ago the account holder had a kid who is now a leftist idiot who had to clean up the deceased dad's electronic stuff. I bet if staff had a log of password change requests there is always one right before the start of the prolific posting. All it takes is access to an email address with an account here. Point them out, berate them, then put them on ignore. 
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Posted: 10/22/2023 10:33:30 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I have no doubt that long-time members are suddenly becoming politically active along with the rest of the country and need a place to vent. However, if ar15.com has ever had a data leak, I wouldn't be surprised if a minority of these cold accounts were bought by our adversaries to influence elections. My point is selling "influential" accounts is actually a thing. Just like chinese scammers "selling" NYC area code phone numbers for FAX machines to use back in the day. |
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Posted: 10/22/2023 10:33:46 AM EDT
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"Miles to go before you sleep, Yuri...miles to go before you sleep"
I've noticed this, too BTW: I've got a 20+ year badge for sale to the highest bidder....less than 5-digits, don't waste my time. I know what I've got |
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Posted: 10/22/2023 10:33:54 AM EDT
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Jacked accounts. Heck, just go look at FB. You'll see tons of political posts with a time gap between current propaganda and the last post in 2013. Granny did not all of a sudden become a massive Biden supporter who believes in global climate change.
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Posted: 10/22/2023 10:35:19 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Old accounts getting hacked. This. |
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Posted: 10/22/2023 10:35:34 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Boredom, retirement, unemployment, or plain old fuckery. In Chicago, dead people vote. In GD, dead people post with estonian IP addresses. |
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Posted: 10/22/2023 10:35:37 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: We are in the age of information warefare. This. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Old accounts getting hacked. We are in the age of information warefare. This. There has to be a certain percentage of it I'm sure. Edit: it's, 'warfare' briff. |
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Posted: 10/22/2023 10:36:50 AM EDT
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Psyops. Trying to shape opinions.
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Posted: 10/22/2023 10:37:46 AM EDT
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For me I had an interaction early on with someone who was way too freaking cool for me to even be around, let alone post alongside. So, I just left and I spent most of my time on two other forums that had less douche bags to deal with.
It doesn’t seem to have changed much, but the news aggregation and perspectives here are too valuable to ignore. I just don’t post much anywhere, but since I’ve been back here, what little effort I do use to post gets done here. |
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Posted: 10/22/2023 10:37:47 AM EDT
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This!
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Posted: 10/22/2023 10:37:59 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Boredom, retirement, unemployment, or plain old Fixt 
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Posted: 10/22/2023 10:39:54 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: My former roommate was a low account ID Slashdot user (less than 100). He sold his account for $2k some years back to someone who wanted to use it for influence. There was some sort of ebay-like market place for it. He got tired of the woke BS and sold his prized account. My point is selling "influential" accounts is actually a thing. Just like chinese scammers "selling" NYC area code phone numbers for FAX machines to use back in the day. Yeah, there are even websites where you can buy them. I won’t link them here, but they show up on a google search. One of the perks of being a ‘22er is at least nobody will suspect me of having purchased my account. |
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Posted: 10/22/2023 10:41:40 AM EDT
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Posted: 10/22/2023 10:44:23 AM EDT
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But seriously, think how much you change over that time span. They may be very different people now compared to who they were back then. My opinions have changed since then. Having kids will do that. Losing friends and loved ones will do that. Growing older or maybe wiser will do that. Or maybe, just maybe, time is running short and they see a window closing and they want to impart some wisdom or get some stories off their chest. Never know I guess.
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Posted: 10/22/2023 10:47:58 AM EDT
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Funny how they have all the answers too. Seems like they have an agenda.
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Posted: 10/22/2023 10:48:23 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Boredom, retirement, unemployment, or plain old fuckery. ETA: GD is also life-changing because it enabled my discovery of the $20 Amazon bidet. |
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Posted: 10/22/2023 10:49:45 AM EDT
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Quoted: For a while I have noticed OLD ACCOUNTS with low post counts suddenly posting heavily in political type threads. Just wondering what makes a person suffer through 20+ years barely to not posting, with plenty of political events, and suddenly majorly interested in political goings on. It baffles me. No one thread mind you, for months if not a couple years, very low post counts suddenly chiming in politically numerous times in those threads. Welcomes low post count, old accounts offering insight into what made you decide to ramp up your posting? Just curious about the mindset, what changed in you to want to get political in this day and age? I only had 2 posts before the last few years, I've been daily trolling in GD, before that I did the same at another gun forum and got bored with them and starter hanging here. |
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Posted: 10/22/2023 10:50:13 AM EDT
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BOT Farms in Russia and Iran. Those Drone attacks in Moscow were mostly aimed at BOT Farms.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43093390 |
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Posted: 10/22/2023 10:50:56 AM EDT
[#29]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Boredom, retirement, unemployment, or plain old fuckery. Old people love to bitch and whine about how much better things use to be. Especially when it’s true. |
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Posted: 10/22/2023 10:53:43 AM EDT
[#30]
Quoted: For a while I have noticed OLD ACCOUNTS with low post counts suddenly posting heavily in political type threads. Just wondering what makes a person suffer through 20+ years barely to not posting, with plenty of political events, and suddenly majorly interested in political goings on. It baffles me. No one thread mind you, for months if not a couple years, very low post counts suddenly chiming in politically numerous times in those threads. Welcomes low post count, old accounts offering insight into what made you decide to ramp up your posting? Just curious about the mindset, what changed in you to want to get political in this day and age? While I see your point and agree that it's weird, I also lurked for 5 years before even making an account. Feeling an overwhelming desire to say FUCK BARRACK HUSSEIN OBAMA was what got me to finally sign up. So I understand the possibility that things are just bad enough now that they feel the need to say shit. |
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Posted: 10/22/2023 10:56:32 AM EDT
[#31]
I'm just here for the entertainment
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Posted: 10/22/2023 11:02:53 AM EDT
[#32]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Old accounts getting hacked. |
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Posted: 10/22/2023 11:03:36 AM EDT
[#33]
Actually it is pretty simple question to answer. There are a lot of forums on the ole net. As with life, people are getting cranky,bitchy and just being assholes. People are leaving their old forums. It's a pretty solid trend. I wish it could be way more exciting like foreign agents trying to convert citizens to their cause. Nope,nada IMHO it's just people trying to be heard in a busy world where they seem forgotten.
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Posted: 10/22/2023 11:04:26 AM EDT
[#34]
I've been lurking more, because I'm in a lot of pain and want to hang with my friends.
Even if I don't know you guys that well any more, it's still nice to just hang out. |
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Posted: 10/22/2023 11:04:45 AM EDT
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Not sure here but whatever it is, i'm absolutely certain it isn't skynet using old accounts as an easy way around captica tests to push an agenda...
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Posted: 10/22/2023 11:04:59 AM EDT
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I had an account 20yrs ago or so, deployments and life kept me away. Forgot login info and I have a shitload of retirement time now..
?shrug? |
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Posted: 10/22/2023 11:06:16 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Not sure here but whatever it is, i'm absolutely certain it isn't skynet using old accounts as an easy way around captica tests to push an agenda... /media/mediaFiles/sharedAlbum/image-461130_JPG-237-647.jpg  You still haven't been approved after 7 years.
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Posted: 10/22/2023 11:06:43 AM EDT
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Sleeper cells arise!
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Posted: 10/22/2023 11:06:49 AM EDT
[#39]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I've been lurking more, because I'm in a lot of pain and want to hang with my friends. Even if I don't know you guys that well any more, it's still nice to just hang out.  Attached File |
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Posted: 10/22/2023 11:07:06 AM EDT
[#40]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Old accounts getting hacked. To expand a bit, the site forcing a password reset via link in an email to the registered email address would probably cut down on a lot of the noise. |
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Posted: 10/22/2023 11:07:16 AM EDT
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What’s baffling about it? There are old sleeper accounts that have either been hacked or registered long ago.
Intel agencies (and probably other entities) heavily manipulate online discussion. You best start believing in propaganda wars. You’re in one.  Attached File |
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Posted: 10/22/2023 11:08:02 AM EDT
[#42]
Quoted: For a while I have noticed OLD ACCOUNTS with low post counts suddenly posting heavily in political type threads. Just wondering what makes a person suffer through 20+ years barely to not posting, with plenty of political events, and suddenly majorly interested in political goings on. It baffles me. No one thread mind you, for months if not a couple years, very low post counts suddenly chiming in politically numerous times in those threads. Welcomes low post count, old accounts offering insight into what made you decide to ramp up your posting? Just curious about the mindset, what changed in you to want to get political in this day and age? I'd be more concerned with infiltrating left and bots vs a boomer posting rants |
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Posted: 10/22/2023 11:08:31 AM EDT
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Sleeper account owned by groups. Activated based on need. I am sure there are hundreds of dormant accounts owned by just a few entities that are used to stir discontent or push a narrative on a very impressionable GD.
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Posted: 10/22/2023 11:14:40 AM EDT
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Someone link Yuri Bezmenov for us.
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Posted: 10/22/2023 11:15:16 AM EDT
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Quoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/219476/Screenshot_20231022_100543_Chrome-3000198.jpg You still haven't been approved after 7 years. And thats even with having paid for a membership at some point during that period... Clearly, I've lost a ton of sleep over the issue. |
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Posted: 10/22/2023 11:16:17 AM EDT
[#46]
noticed this on a board i use to talk on.
it's either terrorist or gov agents. |
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Posted: 10/22/2023 11:20:01 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: And thats even with having paid for a membership at some point during that period... Clearly, I've lost a ton of sleep over the issue. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/219476/Screenshot_20231022_100543_Chrome-3000198.jpg You still haven't been approved after 7 years. And thats even with having paid for a membership at some point during that period... Clearly, I've lost a ton of sleep over the issue. Don't worry. I approved you. 
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Posted: 10/22/2023 11:20:06 AM EDT
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Wasn’t there an anti arfcom AR15 site of lot of banned members that were buying old screen names and passwords to come back and muck rake?
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Posted: 10/22/2023 11:20:41 AM EDT
[#49]
So you are telling me someone will buy this account from me? Does the EE feedback bring a premium?
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Posted: 10/22/2023 11:25:53 AM EDT
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Wow. Selling user accounts. What will they think of next?
Double digit user account here. Think I can get $10k for it?
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