Crapflooding is the practice of disrupting online media such as discussion websites or Usenet newsgroups with nonsensical, inane, and/or repetitive postings (flooding with crap) 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. Online means being connected to the Internet or another similar electronic network, like a bulletin board system. ... This page as shown in the AOL 9. ... Usenet (USEr NETwork) is a global, distributed bulletin board system (BBS). ... A flood is a Usenet term referring to a massive amount of posts in a single newsgroup in a short period of time. ... Look up Crap in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A Do not feed the troll image In Internet terminology, a troll is someone who comes into an established community such as an online discussion forum, and posts inflammatory, rude, repetitive or offensive messages designed intentionally to annoy or antagonize the existing members or disrupt the flow of discussion, including...

Example of crapflooding on Slashdot.

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. Image File history File links GNNA_crapflood. ... Image File history File links GNNA_crapflood. ... Slashdot (often abbreviated as /.) is a technology-related news website which features user-submitted and editor-evaluated current affairs news with a nerdy slant. ... 3 major imageboards: Futaba Channel, 4chan, and iichan, along with the Overchan index. ...

As a technique, crapflooding is typically considered by other trolls to be a "lesser" form of trolling since less intellectual effort is involved in carrying it out. Initiating crapflooding may involve significant intelligence and work; for instance, in having to circumvent anti-crapflooding measures such as CAPTCHAs. A CAPTCHA (an acronym for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart, trademarked by Carnegie Mellon University) is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to determine whether or not the user is human. ...

The most legendary of the Internet crapflooders is Mr. Promise, an Australian of Asian descent who has posted hundreds of thousands of times at various message boards with the assistance of his Australian lover who goes by the name of either fatman or plimzel. Mr. Promise is still being sought after by local authorities for these heinous acts.

Crapflooding can also be carried out via scripts or other utilities, which could handle the task much quicker than doing so by hand. Scripting languages (commonly called scripting programming languages or script languages) are computer programming languages created to shorten the traditional edit-compile-link-run process. ...

See also

• Troll (Internet)
• Sporgery