My
Blizzplanet Q&A was tonight, at 9pm. I showed up a few minutes early, just to make sure I had IRC set up correctly. There were over 300 people in attendance.
Too bad one of them was apparently a flaming *sshole.
The Q&A started and I answered a question or two—and then my connection went down. Not just to the chat but to IRC, the Internet, cable, and phone. They’re all through the same router.
It took something like fifteen minutes before I could reconnect to the Q&A. Answered another question—and was kicked offline again.
And this kept happening. The moderator told me that someone had apparently decided to target my IP specifically—every time I set foot in the main channel he sent packets of information to my IP, bombarding it until it was forced to disconnect.
End result? After an hour or more I only managed to answer maybe five questions.
The moderator apologized—he hadn’t expected anyone to try sabotaging the Q&A, and certainly not that thoroughly. He’s collecting the questions, his and everyone else’s, and emailing them to me, so I will still get to respond to everyone. Just not live and in real-time.
I’m pissed. Not at the moderator—it’s not his fault. But at whomever thought it’d be funny to sabotage my Q&A. I figure either it’s some pathetic little loser who gets off on destroying things for other people, or it’s some pathetic little loser who wishes he were a writer but can barely string two words together and so has it in for anyone who actually possesses talent and gets published. Either way, it’s pathetic.
