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May 14, 2005 1:45 AM

monkeyfilter domain hijacked (by the landlords)
posted by jimjam (21 comments total)

NO FECKIN WAY !

TO THE RAMPARTS , GENTLEMEN !
posted by sgt.serenity at 1:51 AM on May 14, 2005

Hijacked? You may want to look that word up.

"This Account Has Been Suspended
Please contact the billing/support department as soon as possible."
posted by eyeballkid at 1:52 AM on May 14, 2005

Excellent. Jesus, just absolutely riveting. Can we expect another front page post when it goes back up?
posted by jimmy at 1:53 AM on May 14, 2005

Tracicle's blog and the wiki are down too. She had problems with her provider last October, this may be a similar problem.

There's also an AskMe.
posted by cali at 1:56 AM on May 14, 2005

Excellent. Jesus, just absolutely riveting. Can we expect another front page post when it goes back up?

People like jimmy presumably believe there is a secret tally of front page posts taken somewhere, and once we hit a certain number it's nuclear holocaust.
posted by ori at 1:57 AM on May 14, 2005

Oh fer effs sake. An unpaid bill is a FPP now?

Way back when my domain suffered an actual domain re-sale/hijack (not due to unpaid bills or any fault of mine) I was called to meta.
posted by dabitch at 1:58 AM on May 14, 2005

And people like ori and jimjam think this is status.monkeyfilter.com
posted by eyeballkid at 1:59 AM on May 14, 2005

My website's been up and down a few times. How come I never got my very own FPP, huh?
posted by ZachsMind at 2:09 AM on May 14, 2005

seems that if you like/care about monkeyfilter, youd already know its down.
posted by Tryptophan-5ht at 2:20 AM on May 14, 2005

Wow, blogspot was down for twenty minutes yesterday, and Flickr had a massage. Conspiracy?
posted by fixedgear at 2:28 AM on May 14, 2005

And people like ori and jimjam think this is status.monkeyfilter.com
posted by eyeballkid at 1:59 AM PST on May 14 [!]

For the record, I agree that this is a poor FPP, but I'm always surprised when anyone has an aneurysm over a disinterested, unpolitical FPP. I wonder if they write a letter to the editor for every "kitten rescued" article in their local newspaper.
posted by ori at 2:31 AM on May 14, 2005

The next time Jrun rears his ugly head, I know where I'm making a FPP.
posted by DaShiv at 2:32 AM on May 14, 2005

lol!
posted by angry modem at 2:37 AM on May 14, 2005

*highfives DaShiv*
That's hilarious.
posted by dabitch at 2:39 AM on May 14, 2005

It looks like we won. Way to go, team!
posted by rocketman at 2:41 AM on May 14, 2005

MetaFilter: Please contact the billing/support department as soon as possible.
posted by Harry at 2:58 AM on May 14, 2005

Clearly they haven't paid enough bananas this month.
posted by dodgygeezer at 3:47 AM on May 14, 2005

there is a secret tally of front page posts taken somewhere, and once we hit a certain number it's nuclear holocaust.

BOOOM!


posted by matteo at 3:50 AM on May 14, 2005

Poor monkeyfilter
posted by ZippityBuddha at 3:52 AM on May 14, 2005

Sad, sad monkeys.
posted by fish tick at 4:04 AM on May 14, 2005

I think the word "tragedy" was created for a moment such as this.
posted by Mayor Curley at 5:15 AM on May 14, 2005