Ann O'Nymous

SwissAnons

annonymous — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:01:10

Le site des Anonymous suisses: http://swissanons.ning.com

Necromancy

annonymous — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:18:22

On Enturb, Daywatch used a cartoon necromansist as an avatar and pretended to be one… But the only type of necromancy it achieved was thread necromancy: by posting on long forgotten threads, it was allowing people to reconsider what was said a few weeks or months in the past. At some stage, it was used extensively as a way to annoy Enturb staff. I am not sure it had the expected effect.More recently, we had forum necromancy. Enturb is back online, but under a different name[1]. It is not the final state when the site went finally down, but the state a couple of days before that, when Enturb went down for about 12 hours. All the links are not working, but at least we can access the information accumulated on Enturb.For the time being, it is not clear who are the “good” and the “bad” Enturb staff members. Maybe time will tell.

[1] http://forums.whyweprotest.net.

Enturbulation is down

annonymous — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:13:43

The site has been unavailable for a couple of days now. There are many theories about what happened. They range from server replacement – the absence of warning being a “joke” of the staff – to final termination.

Time will certainly tell which one is the nearest from the truth. Here are some elements that might, or not, be of significance:

· Enturb staff began to behave strangely in recent weeks (see previous posts) culminating with a thread about closing Enturb. Poppins proposed the thread, but most people wanted to keep it open.

· Entub has been under DDOS attacks for the past few weeks, making it slow but still usable.

For the time being, enturbulators seem to regroup at various places: http://forums.scientology-exposed.com, http://888chan.org/r8y, http://network.marcab.org. Possibly, people will choose the one that suits their taste best (format, staff, etc.).

Banned again… for a strange reason

annonymous — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:13:34

“You have been banned for the following reason: Inability to read, comprehend, then post. Date the ban will be lifted: 09-07-2008, 10:00 PM.”

I cannot say that I am happy to be banned, but at least I saw this one coming. Arguing with the owner of Enturbulation, even with the best rationale, is always dangerous. The funny thing is that I was defending the opinion that he was not respecting its own rules.

Here it goes. LE, Enturb owner, decided to open a whole forum about the coming Hurricane[1]. I was not the first one to mention that it was off topic – and that having a whole forum was slightly over the top - but I might be the only one to dare to say that LE was contradicting itself. As I knew that this person is quite sensitive, I also mentioned in my second post that I would not post again after that. But it was not enough to prevent the ban.

The exchange is as follows:

· In the OP, LE states very clearly that the forum is dedicated to the hurricane. If the content relates to scientology and/or Anonymous too, it is OK, but it has to deal with the hurricane.

· As an answer to my first post about off topic – and to prove me wrong – LE links to another topic in which the issue of the scientology voluntary ministers’ potential presence on the hurricane area.

· As an answer to my second post where I mention the contradiction, I am banned.

It was not the first time that LE and I exchanged posts this week. When a thread about the 25’000^th thread was published[2], I posted to thank the staff for its dedication. In the next post, somebody asked about the staff members who were “fired” since the beginning. With precautionary remarks, I posted a list of the people who lost the staff status. LE answered that my list was uncomplete and that many were not fired; in fact, this post mentioned, for each of them, the reason for the loss of status. I answered that my list was not that wrong (one person missing and two changing their username) and that I clearly stated it was not limited to fired people (perhaps LE also has an “inability to read, comprehend, then post”). In the following posts, LE wanted to know why I maintained such a list, why I did not asked if I was interested and finally decided it was creepy…

EDIT: Another user got banned too and a thread about LE’s abuse of power was opened[3]. The OP was banned too… At some stage, LE made it clear that it could do whatever it wanted with the site…

[1] http://forums.enturbulation.org/185-hurricane-season-2008/forum-faq-read-me-27793.

[2] http://forums.enturbulation.org/7-general-discussion/25-000-threads-27447.

[3] http://forums.enturbulation.org/145-site-suggestion-consensus/shorten-les-leash-how-get-banned-28131.

Headcounts are not fashionable anymore

annonymous — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:59:43

My recent thread about August headcounts was sent to the dome[1], as was another one made by a third party[2] in an attempt to maintain the count “upstairs” (the new name given by the domers to the mainstream part of Enturb). Other threads have been closed or even made inaccessible[3].

In the first two or three months, headcounts were well received by a vast majority of the anonymous. As I was involved in the collection of data very early[4], I can tell that nobody had anything negative to say about it[5]. But things began to change. As the numbers were going down each month, people were less and less happy to see the figures. Some began to mention reasons why headcounts are not a good thing:

· They are inaccurate. This is true, but if only accurate figures were used IRL, many activities should be stopped immediately. Most of the threads mention that they are estimates.

· They do not reflect the impact of the protests. This is true, at least to a certain extend. In one hand, large figures have a bigger impact on the media, for instance. On the other hand, a smaller group can achieve more in terms of contact with the general public. But many posts argued that one person was enough to do the trick and IMHO, they are pushing too far.

· Monthly protests are not the main activity of Enturb anymore. This is quite true, as the raids were multiplied and less visible actions – like legal and online awareness interventions – developed. But I am not sure that many users – at least the non-domers – are aware of this shift.

It came to the point that a fraction of users entered in some form of reality denial. The most frequent form was to mention the few locations were figures were up and to forget the global picture. When confronted, these people often required upfront solutions to the problem as a way to stop the discussion.

In June, I did not take part in the data collection, but somebody did[6]. Later this month, I raised my concern about the excuses provided to explain why the numbers were going down. The thread was domed[7]. Just after that, a thread was created in the dome to declare headcounts taboo[8]. The irony is that the author of this thread finally changed its mind and feels now concerned about the declining figures.

In July, another user took care of it[9]. The general mood, at least in this thread, was positive again.These days, we are back to taboo mode. The main argument mentioned to censor this issue is that it helps OSA, the intelligence branch of scientology[10]. Some users begin to ask for permanent ban for those who dare to create threads on this topic…A synthesis of the headcounts can been found elsewhere[11].

[1] http://forums.enturbulation.org/38-thunderdome/headcounts-16-08-08-protests-25974.

[2] http://forums.enturbulation.org/38-thunderdome/headcounts-16-08-08-protests-26353.

[3] http://forums.enturbulation.org/12-current-projects/worldwide-headcount-10th-february-582.

[4] March (Europe) : http://forums.enturbulation.org/53-europe/how-many-people-europe-4292.
April : http://forums.enturbulation.org/60-april-12th-protest-archive/headcounts-12-04-08-protests-5110.

May : http://forums.enturbulation.org/102-may-10th-post-game-over/10-05-08-headcounts-12872.

Synthesis: http://forums.enturbulation.org/12-current-projects/how-many-people-worldwide-protests-4644.

[5] An example : http://forums.enturbulation.org/12-current-projects/get-accurate-headcounts-4-9-a-5894.

[6] http://forums.enturbulation.org/124-june-14th-post-results-davy-ms-locker/headcount-thread-18422.

[7] http://forums.enturbulation.org/38-thunderdome/itt-attempt-fag-up-headcount-thread-18571.

[8] http://forums.enturbulation.org/38-thunderdome/itt-headcount-threads-gay-18986.

[9] http://forums.enturbulation.org/149-july-12th-post-game-report/world-numbers-post-yours-22122.

[10] http://forums.enturbulation.org/122-fair-game/head-count-threads-osa-tactic-26346.

[11] http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/PROJECT_CHANOLOGY/IRL_PROTEST_PAGE (bottom of the page).