Do you know when old people talk about the good old days? Do you know when they talk about not having to lock their doors at night? <\/p>\n
That’s what the Ubuntu Forums<\/a> used to be like. Sure, we had the occasional crazy troll, and we definitely had lots of advertising spam (cell phones, porn, viagra, etc.). Those people were harmless, though. The people who engaged with trolls wasted only time. And most people knew not to click on spam but just report it. <\/p>\n Recently, though, we had a spammer who kept telling new users to type sudo rm -rf \/<\/i> in the terminal<\/a>. For those of you who don’t know, that command basically erases your entire system. sudo<\/i> (with administrative\/root privileges) rm<\/i> (remove) -rf<\/i> (recursively for folders and files within folders and forced without asking for confirmation) \/ (the top-level directory of the entire installation). <\/p>\n About 99.999% of people who sign up for the forums are well-meaning (yes, even most trolls), but this loser just ruined everything. Now I have to change my forum signature to warn new users not to ever sudo rm<\/i> anything. The worst part is that this malicious person actually thinks she or he taught these new users a lesson. That’s like going around picking up hitchhikers and then slitting their throats to teach them not to hitchhike. It’s sick, almost to the point of being psychotic. You don’t teach users not to enter random commands by giving them commands to delete their systems. <\/p>\n It takes only one bad apple…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Do you know when old people talk about the good old days? Do you know when they talk about not having to lock their doors at night? That’s what the Ubuntu Forums used to be like. Sure, we had the occasional crazy troll, and we definitely had lots of advertising spam (cell phones, porn, viagra,… Continue reading All it takes is one annoying user to spoil the fun<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-ubuntu","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}