The Yapbrowser Forum reunion party

Oh wow, I just saw something that read like a PG Greatest Hits album. Remember the Yapbrowser fiasco? UA Pr0n, Zango bundles and lots of feverish arguments?

Well, not only did I find some craziness going on over at the Yap website, but all my old pals started turning up too! A walk on cameo from 180 Solutions - sorry, Zango(bar) - would have been the icing on the cake, but it hasn't happened yet. What am I rambling about?

Well, check out what plopped into my mailbox in the screenshot above (click all the images to view and all that jazz).

"Welcome to the Yapbrowser Forums, Paperghost".

My brain began to melt - mainly because

1) Yabrowser have a forum now?! and (more importantly)
2) I didn't actually register.

Intrigued, I boogied on over to the Yap site and saw some pretty entertainingly insane goings on. Turns out they have a forum and a guestbook - let's go to the guestbook first..

...and check me out, laying the smackdown onto the Yap guys there! Sadly, the pretend Paperghost didn't do a very good job of impersonating me...check out my domain.

Vitalsearcurity?

Great mis-spell, captain boobalot.

It gets better, though. Forum time:

Yeah baby, feel the burn!

I'd almost be impressed here, if it wasn't for one huge screwup on a near biblical scale by the impersonator in question.

They made the fatal mistake of writing the domain with a capital V, capital S.

I never, ever, ever do that. It doesn't bother me in the slightest if other people write it like that, but an observant forum troll would have spotted this crucial difference.

And lose 15,000 imitation points for writing .org as .Org, too.

Just when I think things can't get any better, (after a day or so of watching to see what the world's worst ghost will do next) who should pop up on the forum but my old pal:

RinCe!!

Yep, Yap does indeed BBQ my Lollerskates, especially when they apparently can't even get a forum right.

If they'd even bothered to check their statistics page for their Guestbook, they'd have noticed their "Paperghost" had actually posted from Afghanistan. While it's not exactly beyond my technical capabilities to make a post look like it came from somewhere else, I can't say that it's something I would ever actively employ for something as stupid as this.

The daft thing is, they have their board set up so that you don't need to activate your account by clicking a link sent via Email. As long as you know the target's email address, you can register giving any Email address you like and then just start posting garbage. As far as I'm aware, you have to physically select that option from the Admin menu, because it isn't the default. I mean...wow. Well done, guys.

Anyway, I just registered on their forum and posted up some annoyance juice. Feel free to register yourself and join the party. I'm sure we'll be having a BBQ soon enough. Followed by a healthy serving of lollercakes.

There are two possibilities here:

1) Any one of the numerous trolls this place gets decided to have a chuckle - I did recently ban some boobs, so it could well be one of those guys.

2) The Yap people themselves did it to stir up....what, exactly?

Personally, I'm pumping for number 1. I don't see what Yap stands to gain from me chaingunning them down all over again. However, it's rather infuriating that they can't even get a forum right. Even more so that they think I could be bothered screwing around on their forum. No wonder they blundered into a kiddy pr0n fiasco.

Can this get any stupider?

Probably.