Crapflooding

Crapflooding

Crapflooding is the practice of disrupting online media such as discussion websites or Usenet newsgroups with nonsensical, inane, and/or repetitive postings (flooding with ) in order to make it difficult for other users to read other postings. It can also be motivated by a desire to waste the targeted site's bandwidth and storage space with useless text. It is related to trolling.

It is also used to refer to such postings on imageboards which queue a certain number of pictures at any given time, and thus crapflooding pushes back (or even out) relevant information.

As a technique, crapflooding is typically considered by other trolls to be a "lesser" form of trollingFact|date=September 2008 since little intellectual effort is involved in carrying it out. Initiating crapflooding may involve moderate intelligence and work; for instance, in having to circumvent anti-crapflooding measures such as CAPTCHAs.

Crapflooding can also be carried out with scripts or other utilities, which handle the task much quicker and powerfully than doing so by hand.

ee also

*IRC flood
*Troll (Internet)
*Sporgery


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