Ok, i'm honestly wondering if some of the accounts got hacked? I mean now there are 2 posts from the true swamp gamer called epic fuck head with the only word, meow. Could it be a account compromise? I mean at least in th true swamp's case and solace accounts? Either that, or the attack on the forum got a hold of logging credentials like username and passwords? It just seems odd about the true swamp gamer.

Honestly seems fairly in character to me. As for password security, they’re all hashed, and I think you’d have a job finding anyone in the blind community with the skills to brute force, or the time for that matter. Let’s not forget that we’re dealing with, at best, people who know how to use VPNs and hold down their enter keys, and who probably lucked into discovering the whole guests can create topics thing in the first place. No sense giving them too much credit.

@79, I think your underestimating the kinds of passwords I'm talking about though. There are public databases, on GitHub no less, of millions of passwords that have been breached and de-hashed (or that were never hashed to begin with). It's a good thing those databases exist, of course, but you'd be surprised at just how many people use those passwords even though they shouldn't, because the average Joe Public doesn't know any better and we don't encourage strong passwords or the use of password managers. And sure, this is a part of the blind community that we're talking about, but that in no way means that people don't use dumb passwords. And maybe the passwords are hashed, maybe they aren't (I haven't looked at the Pun/PanBB source code), but if someone has used those passwords on here, it doesn't matter if they've been hashed or not.

I have never had my posts lag.  Whatever this is, it isn't everyone.

I’m probably an idiot for saying this, but maybe the spam is the last straw to break the camel’s back and switch forum software. Maybe it’s a protest or act of rebellion to get things done. Playing devil’s advo. Oh wait I am the devil; of course I would advocate for myself.
@79 great way to put a target on your back. You’re basically asking to be hacked by saying something like that.
@82 it is worth it. Having to change and update all of your passwords is annoying, but after that you never need to worry about making another password again. Any time you make a new account, sign into the app or extension and generate a new password with the specified criteria.
Try giving bitwarden a try as what 84 recommended. Also make sure to visit the web vault for additional settings that are exclusively only found for your account there.

@86, I did in no way imply that you didn't take your security seriously. I explicitly said that the average layperson doesn't, and though the blind community isn't full of "average laypeople," it is full of people who it can be safely assumed are not all using password managers or strong passwords for whatever reason. I also was in no way being condescending; I was stating a fact that there are databases out there that are pretty easy to find and that contain well-known passwords like 123456, password123, and so on and so forth, and if anyone on here used such passwords, it being hashed in the database would be completely irrelevant. Yes, in this instance the guest account thingy was abused. But I was responding to the theory that posited that accounts were hacked. And if they had been, it wouldn't need someone to go digging through leaked password lists, though that is one way. Unlike you, I am not assuming that the people on this forum are technically illiterate. I am assuming the opposite. Maybe there are some on here who are less technically literate than others, but I also know that this forum has lots of teenagers on it, and I know how crafty teenagers can be and how capable they are when they want to do something, since I was one once. Get an immature teenager fixated on hacking an account, and they'll most likely find a way if the account isn't secured properly.

@88, oh, my bad, it looked like you'd mistyped. My bad, apologies.

It’s hard not to take that as a little bit of an insult, particularly since you haven’t yet answered my question, or actually mentioned which part of that post you found particularly stupid. Unless you know something about the people behind these spam attacks that I or the rest of us don’t, of course, in which case I have a hard time understanding why you’re not being a bit more forthright.

My basic contention was that I found the possibility of thetrueswampgamer having been hacked rather unlikely, partly because of what I already know about him both on and off forum, but mostly because doing this kind of thing would be prohibitively difficult for the sorts of people making thousands of bullshit posts for shits and giggles, which isn’t I should think an especially controversial take. Not saying that kids aren’t clever or resourceful, but there’s an effort versus reward balance in all of these things, as long as you remember that the primary motivation seems to be to cause as much chaos on the forum as possible, this just equals extra effort for no real reward at the end of it. There’s an argument to be made that I was generalising quite a bit too much when I said that you’ll have a hard time finding people who know how to brute force in the blind community, I should’ve been a bit more specific there, but at that point we’d just be arguing semantics, and I’ll have a hard time taking you seriously for awhile if that turns out to be the entirety of your criticism. I’m going to go out on a limb and say that you probably weren’t nitpicking my evaluation of the relative difficulty of brute forcing, but at this point who knows. I think of all of the arguments I’ve had on this forum, this may actually be by far the weirdest, especially since I normally seem to have some grasp on what the terms of the argument actually are. My own fault for taking it too seriously, I suppose.

There are two very important lessons which I eventually learned after years of getting myself into stupid situations on this forum and which you don’t quite seem to have gotten the hang of yet. Understand your argument and show your working. If you don’t understand your argument or find after a period of thinking about replying that you don’t actually have an argument worth making or a point worth contributing, there’s not much point adding to the general hubbub and confusion of the topic, still more so if you’re thinking of making a criticism of some sort which you may not be able to defend later, And if you can’t show your working in a way that would make sense to an outside observer, there’s a pretty good possibility that most of the people who read your post won’t actually understand what you’re driving at. Often I think about replying to a given topic for awhile and decide it’s not worth it, other times I feel I do have something to say, but I’m simply not in the right headspace to put it in a way that makes sense to even me, so again I don’t bother or put it off for another time. Some days I’m better at this than others, today may actually have been one of my worse days, but nobody is perfect, and I can’t honestly remember the last time I got into an argument where I didn’t at least have a very good grasp of what my position actually was And why I was engaging and where I felt the other person had a similar level of understanding, this one excluded. If half of your arguments are spent clearing up miscommunications with your opponents, past a certain point you have to conclude that you’re doing something wrong and it’s imperative on you to fix it, not them.

As a not very interesting sidenote, I think this may actually be the longest post I’ve ever written on my iPhone. Thank God for dictation, even if a good chunk of my time is taken up with correcting errors and I could’ve probably done a faster and more efficient job if I just gotten up And used my fucking keyboard, but oh well. God created lazy people for a reason, at least that’s what I tell myself every day to help me sleep at night.