You may not like us but you are an honorable person upholding your end of the social contract we all have with our hosts. I am appalled that some here would give you a hard time for acting without hesitation to provide the contact info.

It is okay disagree as long as you aren’t disagreeable.

Thank you!

Don’t try to teach your grannie to suck eggs. Been in the biz since UCSB was the 3rd site on what became the Internet. I know what the referrer you mention is. I’m one of the [eople who helped take down 12chan.

But, it seems your are doing the right thing in this instance.

I have not “written a check” in the sense that I have made a threat towards anyone, I simply stated that the webserver hosting the page that the article originally linked to was now protected by what is known in the web-hosting world as a referrer-killer. It is a line in the httpd config that searches the http-referer header sent by the client for a specific pattern (in this case, tncon.com) and performs an action based on a rule also set in the configs. In our case, the webserver is configured to send you to a “shock image” instead of the originally requested page. In any case, I fail to see how any “check” was written by my warning that a previously (mostly) benign link to an imageboard had been changed to a shock-image. You may also note that I have posted information from my database about the offending poster, including abuse report information for his ISP. I would strongly recommend the offended party (the owner of this website) attempt to contact them.

As far as the “chan world” is concerned, you will note that the cited thread almost immediately veered off-topic and became a discussion of what I can only assume is a Japanese pop-idol as opposed to the usual flood of hate-filled messages and such commonly found on a certain other imageboard. Please, don’t allow the similar layout to confuse you.

Also, if you find that “shelling out to the command line” is a notable event, you may need to take a couple refresher courses on remote systems administration. I have been threatened by people claiming to be everything from Kevin Mitnick’s partner to one of the authors of Sub7. The only thing binding these people was a weak grasp of networking parlance and the inability to cause an interruption of service. I suspect I will add you to the ever-growing list of “internet tough guys” as the kids are calling them, nowadays.

P.S.
Mr. Wright: If you require any more information about the offending poster, please do not hesitate to contact me at the email address provided.

Well here ya go…

The referenced post was made from the IP 98.164.106.66 at Thu Apr 15 15:08:11 2010 GMT+0.

CustName: Cox Communications
Address: 1400 Lake Hearn Dr
City: Atlanta
StateProv: GA
PostalCode: 30319
Country: US
NetRange: 98.164.64.0 – 98.164.127.255
CIDR: 98.164.64.0/18

OrgAbuseHandle: IC146-ARIN
OrgAbuseName: Cox Communications, Inc
OrgAbusePhone: +1-404-269-7626
OrgAbuseEmail: abuse@cox.net

Feel free to send an abuse report to his ISP.