GCD Down due to denial of service attack

[Ares]

On GCD's website:

 

GCD Down due to denial of service attack

A malicious user has been flooding the GCD servers with requests, overloading our systems. We have suspended the site until we can block this person appropriately. We apologize for the inconvenenience. -The GCD Tech Team, 3:20 AM GMT 15 February 2010

 

What f-in insufficiently_thoughtful_person would do this?

 

 

Someone who was computer savvy & someone who REALLY was not happy with their grade. Not a good combo!

 

GCD, not CGC. The GCD is the best comic reference out there (Ares had to have been joking when he asked what it was).

 

Not really..

Never used it, never really heard of it before today

[hikeeba-migration]

On GCD's website:

 

GCD Down due to denial of service attack

A malicious user has been flooding the GCD servers with requests, overloading our systems. We have suspended the site until we can block this person appropriately. We apologize for the inconvenenience. -The GCD Tech Team, 3:20 AM GMT 15 February 2010

 

What f-in insufficiently_thoughtful_person would do this?

 

 

Someone who was computer savvy & someone who REALLY was not happy with their grade. Not a good combo!

 

GCD, not CGC. The GCD is the best comic reference out there (Ares had to have been joking when he asked what it was).

 

Not really..

Never used it, never really heard of it before today

 

Sorry to hear that.

[thirdgreenham]

On GCD's website:

 

GCD Down due to denial of service attack

A malicious user has been flooding the GCD servers with requests, overloading our systems. We have suspended the site until we can block this person appropriately. We apologize for the inconvenenience. -The GCD Tech Team, 3:20 AM GMT 15 February 2010

 

What f-in insufficiently_thoughtful_person would do this?

 

My guess would be Fedoraman.

[Mister_Comics]

Originally Posted By: hikeeba

Too bad they started allowing variant covers, though, that really taints the integrity of the site.

 

I think its the best site for comic info. I use it all the time and have added much info to it. As for variant covers I am glad they alow them. Sometime its the only way I can find out what a varient cover may look like. Especially now with the many different cover varients out there.

[Scrooge]

What do you mean you don't see how? They have a growing image DB, regular contributors, smoother interface, collection management (for free), etc. GCD has a much more archaic unintuative interface, less open format, etc. While comicbookdb.com works to improve GCD remains pretty much the same and while GCD remain better on SA and GA index info it is not "complete" and lags behind for more "recent" material. I am far more inclined to go to comicbookdb because they are community oriented while I get an old timer elitist feeling from GCD.

 

Neither are perfect but GCD is no longer the "definitive" online DB (and never really was anyway since many smaller focused site had just as much if not more info and images than GCD).

 

But hey whatever, I don't really care as I consult both.

 

Chill! I was just asking since I've never used comicbookdb.com and my 3 minutes on their site didn't wow me.

 

First, recall that I am mainly interested in research in GA books and the GCD has taken great strides to improve their depth in that area.

 

As for the elitist feeling you're getting, it might simply be a reflection of the data integrity requirement that the organization is trying very hard to impose. The goal is for the information in the GCD to be the most reliable and that requires gatekeeping. The GCD aims to be the source of data about comics. This is not a community and never pretended to be. So, yes, if that's what you're looking for, you won't find it at the GCD.

 

Yes, some sites who are more focused have more data. Now, it'd be great if they shared it with the GCD. AtlasTales is a better site for Timely / Atlas publications. There exists a sharing partnership between AtlasTales and the GCD so that the GCD benefits from those efforts. The GCD is only going to be as good as we make it. I used it a lot and contribute when I can. (thumbs u

[bounty_coder]

Probably not a denial of service attack... Probably someone trying to scrape their database and images who didn't know what they were doing. (resulting in essentially a DOS attack.)

Very likely.

 

that would make more sense.

 

I'd bet my collection that this is what happened. I've seen covers from GCD on many websites including Comic Collector Live and Cover Browser.

 

Years ago I did a scrape of GCD, but first asked permission from Ken Lemons who at the time was the main contact through the site.

 

- bounty

[codfish]

What do you mean you don't see how? They have a growing image DB, regular contributors, smoother interface, collection management (for free), etc. GCD has a much more archaic unintuative interface, less open format, etc. While comicbookdb.com works to improve GCD remains pretty much the same

 

Have you been to The GCD lately? It's been overhauled.

 

Yes I have been there lately and it has improved in some regards but again it is not as smooth as it should be.

 

and while GCD remain better on SA and GA index info it is not "complete" and lags behind for more "recent" material. I am far more inclined to go to comicbookdb because they are community oriented while I get an old timer elitist feeling from GCD.

 

Not sure why you get that feeling. Can you site some examples of this elitism? You can upload scans any time you want, without even signing in or getting someone's approval, so it's not this you're refering to. Go ahead, upload and index all that recent material that they are lacking, it's a volunteer community effort and always has been. Too bad they started allowing variant covers, though, that really taints the integrity of the site.

 

Well not getting any replies from emails, lack of a public forum, and, well, just read your last sentence there.

 

Neither are perfect but GCD is no longer the "definitive" online DB (and never really was anyway since many smaller focused site had just as much if not more info and images than GCD).

 

I wouldn't believe that without some links. How can a smaller site have more than 250,000 covers and over 500,000 issue indexed unless they stole the info from the GCD in the first place?

 

ROFLMAO! I was talking about specialist sites. There are many sites that have specific data on characters, companies, etc that have or had data and good images long before GCD heck I wouldn't be surprised if GCD "stole" their data.

 

What a load of tripe.

[codfish]

 

Chill! I was just asking since I've never used comicbookdb.com and my 3 minutes on their site didn't wow me.

 

Feh I wasn't upset. I thought you were.

 

As for comicbookdb.com they are still a fairly young site and what they really need is more older collectors to contribute.

 

First, recall that I am mainly interested in research in GA books and the GCD has taken great strides to improve their depth in that area.

 

IMO I have always thought that is where their focus appeared to be in the SA and GA. For someone like myself that is not focused on one era GCD comes up short as often as other site does.

 

As for the elitist feeling you're getting, it might simply be a reflection of the data integrity requirement that the organization is trying very hard to impose. The goal is for the information in the GCD to be the most reliable and that requires gatekeeping. The GCD aims to be the source of data about comics. This is not a community and never pretended to be. So, yes, if that's what you're looking for, you won't find it at the GCD.

 

If you want to be the best online source you MUST have a community of some sort. People have to know they are being heard. GCD has always been more about how their site meets their vision not how it meets the collecting community's vision. At least that is my impression.

 

I have no problem with gatekeeping or being worried about the data but that doesn't always ensure that the data you have is either complete or correct. Being too strict on data entry will also discourage many folks for wanting to contribute.

 

Yes, some sites who are more focused have more data. Now, it'd be great if they shared it with the GCD. AtlasTales is a better site for Timely / Atlas publications. There exists a sharing partnership between AtlasTales and the GCD so that the GCD benefits from those efforts. The GCD is only going to be as good as we make it. I used it a lot and contribute when I can. (thumbs u

 

It isn't isn't up to those specialist sites to reach out. This is an example of what community building can do if those who headed up GCD reached out to build bonds they would get more sharing of data. GCD could have made more strides at key times if they had revamped it it the way it is right now. For a very long time it was virtually impossible to contribute anything but images because they never got back to people who were interested in becoming a data contributor.

[heinlein99]

I'll admit, I go to GCD if I'm lacking a few issues of a series and want to finish it up. But I don't go for more than that, because to me it's unsporting. (And, a lot of their older images are just craapy.)

 

I justify it by the fact that they can take any images they want from my site, without my knowledge or permission, anytime they like.

[hikeeba-migration]

 

Chill! I was just asking since I've never used comicbookdb.com and my 3 minutes on their site didn't wow me.

 

Feh I wasn't upset. I thought you were.

 

As for comicbookdb.com they are still a fairly young site and what they really need is more older collectors to contribute.

 

First, recall that I am mainly interested in research in GA books and the GCD has taken great strides to improve their depth in that area.

 

IMO I have always thought that is where their focus appeared to be in the SA and GA. For someone like myself that is not focused on one era GCD comes up short as often as other site does.

 

As for the elitist feeling you're getting, it might simply be a reflection of the data integrity requirement that the organization is trying very hard to impose. The goal is for the information in the GCD to be the most reliable and that requires gatekeeping. The GCD aims to be the source of data about comics. This is not a community and never pretended to be. So, yes, if that's what you're looking for, you won't find it at the GCD.

 

If you want to be the best online source you MUST have a community of some sort.

 

I guess they're the exception to your rule then. They are the best I've found, no "Board" community necessary. That only helps if you're sad and lonely.