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Re:Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive... by constantcrying on Saturday November 15, 2025 @09:36AM (#45937745)
The owner of the KiwiFarms goes into detail how the attack against his site works and where the residential IPs are from:

"The bot spammer

- Started his attack by simply DDoS attacking the forum.

- Uses thousands of real email addresses from real providers like gmail, outlook, and hotmail.

- Uses tens of thousands of VPN IPs.

- He also uses tens of thousands of IPs from "Residential Private Networks", which are "free" VPN services that actually sell your IP address to spammers so that their activity cannot be identified as coming from a commercial service provider.

- Is able to pass off all CAPTCHA providers to CAPTCHA solvers to bypass anti-bot challenges.

- Is completely lifeless and dedicated to this task. Publicly posted invites were found and used by him, and after a full month of no engagement he noticed registrations were open within hours."

Source: https://kiwifarms.st/threads/the-gay-pedophile-at-the-gates....

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Re:Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive... by zahlman on Saturday November 15, 2025 @12:13PM (#45938888)
I understand the value of providing evidence here, but I think KF links get your post auto-killed...
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Re:Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive... by cyberdick on Sunday November 16, 2025 @09:34AM (#45945420)
this sort of stuff happened on reddit too but by a different moderator and his goons https://www.markdownpaste.com/document/bardfinn-method
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Re:Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive... by journoscum on Monday November 17, 2025 @07:51PM (#45960183)
Your link says there's no actual evidence she did that.
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