Exquisite ownage

[greatbear]

In this vast internet, there is ownage, and there is serious ownage.

But never have I seen ownage taken to such an incredible, unbelievable, delicious extreme.

First off, dont mess with 'car guys'. Creating a profile on a forum then using it to spam the forumwill usually get you banned, and that's it. However, if you pick a forum to boast of your Acura NSX and put down the forum folk while also spamming them, it's open season.

Cliffs so far:

User NSX_Nick joins the NSXPrime community then proceeds to tell everyone how he bought the car for cash from his winnings at some gambling site.

Miffed forum members do a WHOIS on the site, find it's registered to someone named Nick.

"Nick" begins denying allegations that it's him, but boasts again of the gambling site, as well as another. More WHOIS peekabo reveals the same guy is the registrant.

People start googling the name and address found in the WHOIS info, discover a MySpace page, numerous other postings at other forums, photos and, the kicker, a registered sex offender site with matching pictures and addresses.

"Nick" still denies the evidence. Another forum member highlights a reflection on the car in "Nick"'s photo, and it's the same guy.

And it only gets better from there.

It's a huge read, but entirely worth it. In only a few days, it's exploded mostly all over various auto-related forums, but it's grown from there. It becomes a parade of new registrants from all the other places this site has become front-page material.

Comments

[danthered.livejournal.com]

This kind of shitmess makes me very glad I spend time on the auto forums I spend time on, with their uncommonly excellent signal/noise ratio...and equally glad I don't spend time on ones like the linked one.

[greatbearmd.livejournal.com]

There was a thread on allpar.com that referenced this 'shitmess', but it looks baleeted.

[danthered.livejournal.com]

I may have a login name on the allpar forums, but I'm sure I don't remember it...way too much noise.

[bigredpaul.livejournal.com]

That's one of the funniest things I've read in a long time.

Holy Schmoley

[geometrician.livejournal.com]

Okay -- totally not into cars (I had to look up what a NSX was), or reading endless forum topics, but my... GOD that's some serious entertainment! I can't believe I sat here long enough to go through several pages of that stuff!

WOW

[badgerpdx.livejournal.com]

No kidding. I thought Citroen people were obsessive. Now it seems that most all car people are obsessive. WOW! Duly noted.

[greatbearmd.livejournal.com]

It's the proverbial train wreck. You cant look away. And the macros and anigifs are icing on the cake!

[holy13nation.livejournal.com]

Wow. That just cost me a sizeable chunk of my Saturday morning and almost all of my faith in human nature.
And I still have no idea exactly what an NSX is.
But I know never to fuck with the owner of one.

[beardoc.livejournal.com]

I think the real power of it is the power of collaboration on the internet to achieve the most amazing things. In this case, the total annihilation of the character of a guy that was trying to promote his business interests. The (Australian) Whirlpool forums, SurvivorSucks.com (now defunct) were all examples of that. Another reason I love online forums.

[beardoc.livejournal.com]

One of the other things that this highlights is how much public information about you on the internet can be used against you. People armed largely with just Google and other publicly available databases were able to destroy this guy.

Reminds me that I need to avoid pissing people off.

[teddyb.livejournal.com]

Wow, that is funny and sad, all at the same time.

I definitely think that with his background, Mr Sitko would, um, want to keep a lower profile and find a type of work less likely to draw law enforcement attention.

Yikes, what a trainwreck...