Category: The Last Refuge

Wolf’s Phony AMA (Ask Me Anything) Which is More Like an SLHO (Super-Limited Hang-Out) But is Actually a Front for an RFC (Request For Comments) Which is Really Both an FFM (Fact-Finding Mission) and a PUHD (Pop-Up Help Desk)

YEAH. You have problems with this wonderful new site. We know that. But you are hesitant to bug THE WOLF any more than you already have.

We respect that. But we need you to tell us what is happening and why, because if we don’t, THIS WONDERFUL SITE may end up being destroyed by WordPress. Errrr – I mean WordPress.com.

Speaking of which, how many people here have been LOCKED OUT for “commenting too fast”?

Yeah. That was a beauty.

Thank you, all who reported that. Please SPEAK UP here and REMIND US if you got that red-box warning – I want to DOCUMENT IT HERE.

OK? Please let me know if you got that pop-up, and particularly if it kept you from commenting.

I want to hear it AGAIN. Right here.

I AM COLLECTING EVIDENCE.

You see, my definition of site security is less about who is watching us or how they are watching us, and more about ARE THEY TAMPERING WITH OUR GOOD THING?

SOCIAL HACKING is what I’m most concerned about.

WordPress.com – which kicked Sundance and CTH off its platform for political reasons, is not as big of a social hacker as Twitter and Facebook, but thanks to their AXEY-METH (Akismet) POST-RANSOM CRIMEWARE / MAFIA-PROTECTION RACKET MALWARE, they are close to it. The WordPress scam works a bit differently from the Twitter scam, but it works.

By my being the ONLY administrator / moderator on this site, and having (at present) ZERO moderation filters other than “PRIVATE_MESSAGE_TO_WLOF” (spelled correctly), I can “see through” all the games and all the con jobs that are foisted on honest patriots by the outside world, OR by the platform itself.

Anyway, a bit more about the “red box scam”. The pop-ups telling people they were posting too fast, and then BLOCKING them from commenting.

This was due to a setting in WordPress, as part of WordPress.com’s “JetPack” plugin, which supposedly prevents brute force attacks on the site. I want to thank grandmaintexas and her DH for helping me out there, with the critical insight that this censorship problem actually stemmed from that very particular setting.

Turning it off – BOOM – problem GONE.

Now – I’m not going to show WordPress.com all my cards here, but trust me – that setting did not initially block people from posting. The censorship SNUCK IN LATER. It was also very specific WHO it went after. I do not believe that it was accidental, either. I believe the targets were INTENTIONAL. But even if I’m wrong about that, it’s a lot like the China Virus. WordPress – and specifically JET PACK – is responsible.

Now bear in mind – JetPack is also responsible for the “bar-bell” notifications. That is primarily WHY we have JetPack installed as a plugin.

I want to ask people here – do you TRUST the notification system? The “black bar, white bell, and orange dot”. Do you trust that it always reports everything to you faithfully and without any kind of bias?

I may or may not be suspicious of JetPack’s notification behavior at this very moment, but it is my job, being in charge of security, to trust it exactly NEVER. I am faithful NOT to the software, nor even to its possibly long and glorious history, but rather to its INTEGRITY OF FUNCTION AT THIS MOMENT – an ephemerally correct thing which may or may not be true, but can never be assumed.

I am faithful to PRINCIPLES and to those who – like me – strive to UPHOLD THEM.

More about trust.

I most assuredly DO NOT TRUST WordPress.com not to #### with us again, via JetPack and WordPress.com authentication (meaning when you log in using your WordPress password and identity).

I want to IMPART THIS SUSPICION on all who enter here. I want you ALL to be my EYES AND EARS – so that not IF but WHEN WordPress.com decides to mess with us again, ALL OF YOU will be prepared. We almost lost some of your BEST FRIENDS HERE to the last scam.

So LOOK SHARP.

And NOW go ahead. Ask me anything!

W

The Q Tree Member Roundup! Calling All Q-Treepers!

THE Q TREE CALLS ALL ITS TRUTH WARRIORS TO COME HOME AND ASSEMBLE FOR BATTLE!

Come inside!

Relax! Have a seat!

Or sit out on the deck!

Please check in and let your friends know that you FOUND our new home. Lurkers, former members, old friends from CTH, and everybody else – you are welcome to make that first post right here! Introduce yourselves!

W

We just ask that you BE-HAVE!!!

#WordPrexit

As the 2020 Presidential Election falls into pieces, and the left in utter desperation tries to make us believe their SICK FRAUD – which is apparently the culmination of YEARS of sick frauds, they make some extremely cynical moves.

The Treehouse is Deplatformed…

Update From WordPress/Automattic on Treehouse Deplatforming…

Prepare for the Great Decoupling – Deplatforming moves downstream to WordPress.com and Mailchimp

I mean, it’s not like Q didn’t predict this.

Sundance passes along the mealy-mouthed, PROGZI explanation…..

“Community Guardian”. What a SICK and COWARDLY joke.

Sundance also provides us their “reasons for deplatforming people” as follows:

This stuff is quite clearly weaponized for censorship of the right. LyingPress could kick any MAGA blog off their platform at any time, simply for disagreeing with the “party line”, or for publishing memes too sophisticated for the “Community Guardians” like Sal P. to understand.

In reality, they would understand, but would pretend not to understand.

And the reality beyond THAT ONE is that the leftists are not stupid – they’re malicious. They simply use pretending not to understand as cover.

Now, the rules here seem to only affect accounts with optional ad display, but I don’t think we should delude ourselves about any kind of immunity, or worse yet, quibble with power-holding baizuo from that position. Even our free blog with no ads, which we are currently running, has notices in the editor that ads may play at the end of an article, in spite of our “ad-free” status. Thus, we might be subject to these rules anyway, and I suspect that we are. Additionally, we cannot count on LyingPress to uphold the specifics of the rules, since it appears that Sundance had no recourse to change the nature of his blog to ad-free.

Our old friend jello333 of CTH says it best:

jello333 says:

November 17, 2020 at 12:45 am

Just looking at the whole list of “prohibited content”, we should actually be GLAD to get off this platform! Some parts of it make sense, but a lot of it just looks like a way to hammer anyone they don’t like for the tiniest, most ridiculous “violation”. I say good riddance! But if I was to guess what finally caused them to come after the Treehouse… it would be this LIE:

“Proliferating or creating verifiably false claims or content that could undermine participation or trust in an electoral or democratic process.”

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To me, it’s very clear that LyingPress knows Sundance is influential, and needs to help protect their phony neo-Soviet “electoral or democratic processes” by prohibiting any thought they might be filled with cheating.

Sorry. LyingPress are now SOVIET SCUM, and we will be leaving them.

I cannot promise any time-frame for moving, but I already have a good idea about where we will go. I will begin researching immediately.

In order to have time to become an ACTUAL full-time administrator (and not just a member with an admin role and permissions on a canned site), I will need to relinquish both weekly authorship and frequent commenting on the site. Perhaps at some point, those can come back, but not right away.

If somebody is interested in doing the FRIDAY daily thread, please feel free to speak up. I will also FREE UP the current authors at this time to renegotiate their responsibilities, if they so desire, with me and each other. Please feel free to keep or change your current days for the daily threads. Talk among yourselves – I am fine with whatever you all decide.

Interesting times. Let’s make the most of them.

W