Highly deceptive, aggressive advertising on Wikia, à la Bonzi.com Options

[Achromatic]

I know they're not responsible for that server. But it's still insulting and disturbing.

That's another popular line. Betacommand seems to believe that "it's not wikia's fault",ergo it's not a problem. He also makes the (in my mind absurd) claim that administrators, in legions and volumes rarely seen before, are on a rampage installing malware on their web servers... Not getting a virus, mind you, but installing software that masquerades as "MS Antivirus". I call BS. That kind of claim is right up there with JoshZ's "conspiracy to destroy my wiki reputation by stalking me with the power of premonition".

Although credentials are like assholes... me? I used to be a program manager at Microsoft, managing a really small website with a paltry 13,000 page views a second on the homepage alone. I think it was called nsm.com or something... But it meant I had plenty of experience dealing with ad server administrators and techs, and say what you like about ads online... it takes a lot of knowledge and workmanship to be able to build a server farm that can keep up with that kind of traffic, for that site alone...

Speaking of JoshZ, he says that it's not a problem, "because wikia knows about it and is trying to fix it" (so apparently it's not an issue, after all, wikia's desire to resolve the situation will protect people's PCs, right?)

This post has been edited by Achromatic: Tue 28th July 2009, 6:41am

[Grep]

Speaking of JoshZ, he says that it's not a problem, "because wikia knows about it and is trying to fix it" (so apparently it's not an issue, after all, wikia's desire to resolve the situation will protect people's PCs, right?

Ah yes, super-secret technical measures which we mustn't be told about because then the Bad Guys would find out. Have we heard that before somewhere?

[Nerd]

Is Will Beback really that retarded?

I think several of the names in those discussion threads don't normally patrol the spam blacklist page. So, it's funny that they're so quick to dis WR when it appears that it was WR that led them to the discussion in the first place.

Yes, he evidently is that retarded. And Protonk is evidently a toad.

And these fools are highly-ranked administrators on Wikipedia.

What they are demonstrating is essentially massive buck-passing incompetence.
If that were a corporate server infected with malware, and those two
worked for me as the responsible sysops, I'd fire them immediately. Of course.

Nerd, does that qualify as a Wiki-Problem or not?
They have a malware infection on a Wikia server shoved right in their faces,
and they're mumbling "well, this came from Wikipedia Review, so I can't take
it seriously". IN PUBLIC.

I know they're not responsible for that server. But it's still insulting and disturbing.

Sorry, what? It certainly is a problem, yes. Why are you addressing me?

[Gandoman]

On the spam blacklist talk page, JoshuaZ is arguing that nothing should be done because this is not done deliberately by Wikia. Yeah, that'll be a great consolation for those users who get their computers infected. "Too bad, your computer got infected with malware, but at least Wikia didn't do it deliberately, so it's no big deal, eh?"

It's amazing how a serious issue is being completely pooh-poohed only because the person who found out has ties to a BADSITE. Also, I suspect that the fact that Jimbo runs Wikia has something to do with it. We wouldn't want to cross the God-King by criticising his advertising practises, right?

Just shows that Wikipedia is all about politics and where you are in the hierarchy.

This post has been edited by Gandoman: Tue 28th July 2009, 7:31pm

[Lifebaka]

On the spam blacklist talk page, JoshuaZ is arguing that nothing should be done because this is not done deliberately by Wikia. Yeah, that'll be a great consolation for those users who get their computers infected. "Too bad, your computer got infected with malware, but at least Wikia didn't do it deliberately, so it's no big deal, eh?"

It's amazing how a serious issue is being completely pooh-poohed only because the person who found out has ties to a BADSITE. Also, I suspect that the fact that Jimbo runs Wikia has something to do with it. We wouldn't want to cross the God-King by criticising his advertising practises, right?

Just shows that Wikipedia is all about politics and where you are in the hierarchy.

There's also no small subsection of the community that doesn't care. Never forget about the part that doesn't care.