Definitely hacked, it's back up with the top post requesting no new posts:
"All That Chat has been hacked - please do not post.
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We recommend scanning your computer with an anti-virus program if you are unsure if a program has been downloaded.
If you aren't already running an anti-virus program, we recommend Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware which you can get at www.malwarebytes.org. It has a 30-day free trial you can use immediately."
As for why someone would hack it, anyone remember El Muhammed?
"Why, I make more money than... than... than Calvin Coolidge! PUT TOGETHER!" ~Lina Lamont
Really? If I had to choose b/w BWW and ATC, I'd pick ATC in a heartbeat. At least they weed out the children and repeat trolls. Sucks that anybody gets hacked, though.
That's why they make chocoate and vanilla, I guess, smaxie. I never see a gang mentality on ATC like I do here, banding together to attack a singular poster or make fun of disabled posters. Or endless pointless threads making fun of other threads. Or trolls that come back to disrupt intelligent discourse year after year under different names. I find BWW far more toxic than ATC. At the very least, it IS reliably about broadway, and personal attacks are not allowed there.
At the very least, it IS reliably about broadway, and personal attacks are not allowed there.
That is, unless you're a longtime/established poster...in which case, you can pretty much say whatever you want without fear of deletion.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
I enrolled there but never posted. When I tried to post something a long time later, I got a message that I was "banned" from the site. No reason given.
They are suggesting we scan our computer for viruses now.
"All That Chat will be offline until at least Tuesday, Jan. 12 If you have visited All That Chat in the last few days, please scan your computer with an anti-virus program. Avast, Malwarebytes and other programs are free or have a free trial period.
We are very sorry for any inconvenience this has caused."
They weed out "the children" by using a format so archaic that only the over-60 crowd who gave up technology circa-Windows 98 can tolerate it. Oh, really?
I've been on the internet since Windows 3.1 using dial-up.
Hardly someone who gave up technology circa-Windows 98.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body