Apparently the GLP is being run/administered at this point by someone known as Trinity. He has banned more than 30 regulars this evening for making negative comments about the advertising company (LOP) that is paying to put ads on the site. (apparently LOP has a rather unsavory reputation on the net)

Could this finally be the end of GLP??

Stay tuned folks!!

Perhaps GLP and LOP will merge and we'll wind up with GLOP.

So things may not turn out to be that much different after all...

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Hmm, apparently even one of the moderators got banned.

I wonder if they will ban Anonymous Coward 8)

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I'm not surprised they are saying negative things about lop.com - their malware sounds pretty evil.

The good news is that both Ad-Aware and Spybot kill it stone dead, and I'd like to think we're all running one or both anyway.

Well i can't say i didn't see this coming because then i would be a liar. Just didn't expect it to be over LOP, heh silly GLPers

We have a Trinity, she's a 20 year old female from Wisconsin. :wink:

No... he posts more than everyone else combined!! :wink:


Well the board runs a lot faster now... I suppose you could say, "Trinity made the trains run on time??" :P

Banner ads can be and have been used to do drive-by spyware installations. A number of keenspot.com readers (Keenspot is a site that hosts Web comics) got burned when a third-party advertiser bought a campaign, ran perfectly normal ads for a week or so and then suddenly switched them for ads containing scripts which loaded up the reader's computer with nasties.

So, if you feel like going slumming over at GLP, a few commonsense precautions should be in order:

Do NOT use Internet Exploder. Get a real browser.

Make sure you have Java, ActiveX (if your browser supports it) and scripting turned off.

Make sure you have up-to-date anti-spyware and anti-virus tools.

The story I'm hearing from the former moderator on one of GLP's refuge boards is this: Elaine was having some financial troubles and sold the site to Lop.com out of need. She's very broken up over what's happening now, but there doesn't seem to be anything she can do about it.

That sounds... vaguely suspicious. Has she never heard of donation campaigns? I've seen several popular sites that managed to survive just such financial troubles by doing so, and I'm sure GLP has enough suc^H^H^H fans to help out.

Either way, I wouldn't mind if it shuts down.

I don't think Trinity likes me. 8-[

Just for you Candy if you decide to pay GLP a visit 8)

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I'm actually registered over there - not as Candy. I go there and cause trouble when I am totally bored. 8-[

She has done that for a while. She got enough donations to buy and configure a server in october, then in November, she only got about $45, and even less in december.

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Candy,
What is your registered name over there? I'm not registered, but I post as Deacon Blue.

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I'm sorry, but GLP was the worst designed site I've ever seen. It nearly made my eyes bleed. It needs to go just for that reason alone. I'm sure there are other woowoo sites out there.

That's ok Candy... I don't think he likes me very much either!!! :wink:

Wow, I still can access the site. Perhaps, he likes my registered name - just not that I'm female. :wink:

Hello, Deacon Blue. 8)

Well, I am getting the same error message, but it can't be that I'm banned because I haven't been over there for a while, and AFAIK haven't directly stepped on anybody's toes.

Trinity (the new mod) has boasted of blocking entire blocks of IP address 255 at a time. He may have gotten you in a frenzy.

He means to purge the doubleplus ungood crimethinkers.

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Did a Google search for "lop spyware" and got this. Ugly. I'm not even gonna try to get back in.

Somebody over at one of the GLP refugee boards confirmed that yes, "Trinity" has blocked whole masses of IP numbers, and since I have AOL, and I understand that it's AOL'ers that frequently get caught in that sort of thing...

Interesting. Trinity is mod there, and the site is owned by lop. On this page, it says "trinity" is one of the variants of the evil lop malware that hijacks your browser.

Coincidence? Hmmm, a theory worthy of GLP itself.

I just went there and got blocked. I was OK yesterday.

I'm not even registered there, and posted only infrequently. I am an AOL user, so may have gotten swept up in some mass blocking.

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I can still get access.

There was a thread that Trinity was going to block everyone not registered by January 1st.

I wounder if they will all come over here 8-[ (like grant)

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Early this morning, there were a huge amount of online viewers (mostly guests). I meant to do a print screen, because the total count was around 150. I wonder if the BA has the actual numbers available. :-k

No I don't think he can
I wounder If he can read other peoples privete msg

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Most users ever online was 207 on Sat Dec 25, 2004 3:56 am

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