>>116221
One or two anons got nuked for like 3 or 4 days I think. The rest were all spam from that anon. The short story (as told by someone who is pro-/a/ but posts on both boards) is...
>Molniya was more or less a sleeper agent who made multiple threads (because he's usually not a bad poster)
>Meido tools were only set to see the last 75 posts anon had made partially for anonymity and partially because meidos shouldn't need to see more
>Head Meido had been working on site-related issues for about three days straight
>Sleeper agent was engaged
>75+ posts of pure fucking spam out of nowhere
>HM sees it
>"What the everloving fuck?"
>"It's just a spammer, she'll be alright."
>Gives him the [D+]
>Except he wasn't just a spammer
>Suddenly half the writing contest wiped out
>And about 5% of the current /cafe/
>And a bunch of other stuff because as I said, this guy is normally not a bad anon he just sperges out for some reason at random whenever he senses /a/ is comfy
>Suddenly the spam of several "anons" that are "outraged" over what happened
>Anyone with a post history basically telling him to cool his jets
>Tries to turn it into a big deal about how the meidos are just banning everyone and how the website is falling apart a bloo bloo we should bee like Freech
>ALL single-post IPs, maybe one or two posts made five minutes prior in another thread so it looks like a normal poster to the average meido
>Cross-referencing images, known locations of namefags on IRC/known location from Molniya shitposting about it in the past, and checking IPs catches his main non-proxy bareback IP (hashed of course) and gets it a week-long ban
>Molniya panics and ramps it up to 11 when he realizes he's been caught (with only a week ban despite causing a catastrophic fuck-up WWWW)
>HM realizes fuckup and proceeds to change how the meido ~~spy~~ viewing tools operate slightly so that never happens again (meidos can now see all posts instead of the last 75)
>Also mechanically changes how [D+] functions to prevent it from doing that accidentally
>Also separates the /support/ thread onto its own board to keep him from starting drama again which royally pisses him off/results in pepe spam for the next week for several hours at a time before he realizes there's basically always a meido online
>A dozen "anons" claiming to be "outraged" and constantly spamming support links all over /a/ shitting it up after the spam fails/is deleted before anons can even see it
>HM gives the go ahead to utilize the full force of rule 2, 3, and 8
>One or two anons got caught in the crossfire who had taken Molniya seriously
>Some four days later over the weekend
>One of the meidos unbans a couple anons caught as well as Molniya
>Suddenly all the whining, shitposting, and most importantly spamming stops out of nowhere for several days
>Immediately picks up again when writefag (confirmed Molniya) gets banned by Hoihoi for namefagging for something like 10 hours
Polite sage