Monday, October 19, 2009

The Message Board Scandal of 2009

Something weird happened over the weekend.

No, we don't mean the Pittsburgh Penguins actually winning a game while wearing their blue 3rd jerseys. Although that is weird.

The Grizzlies' opening night was great and exciting and whatever. We thought we'd hit up the message board to rejoice with all the other happy fans. But when we got there, no rejoicing was happening. In fact, it looked like the message board had been spammed.

You know those emails you get where everything is spelled wrong to avoid all the junk mail filters, and they're trying to sell you some kind of drug to enhance something you may or may not have in the first place? Yeah. Huge amounts of those everywhere. (We realize now we should have taken a screen shot, but whatever.)

So we log in this morning to see what was up with the spam. There was one message:



For those of you who don't have x-ray vision to read the above image, this is what it says:

Unfortunately over the weekend, an organization logged in and began using the board as their own personal amazon.com. Unfortunately, cleaning this up, all previous posts, including legitimate ones by Grizzlies fans were deleted. We will unlock the forum and message board for posting soon.

Thank you,
Administrator
So much for jubilation. Who just spams a message board like that anyway? Lame city.

Anyway, we're hoping the message boards are back up soon. Feel free to use our comments section in the meantime to talk about the game.


Go Grizzlies!

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