Combatting Idiocy One Step at a Time

[Personoid]

Okay. In this thread I'm going to outline everything I can think of that is frequently misunderstood on Gaia. [Edited to avoid confusion]
I'm making this due to the increasing amounts of idiocy displayed on this forum and on other forums.
I'll be posting this on other forums.
I request that this be stickied after it falls off the first page.

Gold Gen
If you find a way to gen gold, you will be tempted to abuse it. If you manage to fly under the radar, someone else will eventually find it and eventually it will be abused and patched.
You could use a gold gen the staff have, but you would be caught quickly and banned.

Item Gen
See Gold Gen above. Same story.

Unbanner
An unbanner is a staff tool. Even if you manage to get into a staff account, which isn't likely considering i know few people with that potential, everything you do is logged and you will be caught and banned.

Banner
A banner is also a staff tool. If you intend to ban someone without access to the account, you can either frame them or you can get a staff account and ban them. However, staff will catch on if you use a staff account. You will be chain banned and the account you banned may be unbanned.
If you have access, just use tor and break a crap load of rules and see if you get banned. Btw, exposing 13 year olds to shock site level porn is idiotic. Do not spam the forums with porn if you're not an idiot. It'll get you banned but that's just moronic.

Cracker
Gaia now employs the use of captcha. The only feasible way to crack would be proxies or finding a hole that allows for captcha bypass. This is highly unlikely, but possible. It's not unheard of. However, at this point, anyone who makes a working cracker is not gonna want their method patched. They aren't gonna release their work to you unless they want to get the method patched.

'Scripting'
Packet Editing is not scripting.
Using a client is not scripting.
Scripting has nothing to do with Gaia at all.
Programming in a scripting language could be considered scripting.
I'm unsure at the moment as to why the term is used on Gaia.

Disconnect on Flash Games
You cannot find some kind of filter or some kind of program that is immune to being forcibly disconnected.
Anything you can do at this point, Ava change and things of the like, are done by methods that don't disconnect.

'Hacking'
Using an FLP (Fake Login Page), Social Engineering, FLW (Fake Login Window), etc.
These methods are not hacking. True hacking is obscured at this point. I don't even know what hacking is.
Kids using programs made by smarter people to 'hack' is just... I don't even know.
Please, for my sanity and yours, stop calling everything hacking.

XSS
Gaia now employs a security measure to combat XSS.
It's called HTTPOnly.
The normal method to get a SID is through the javascript variable that follows: document.cookie
Due to HTTPOnly, that variable will not contain any cookie with the HTTP Only attribute.

Key Logging
A key logger monitors all keystrokes on a computer.
A fake client or phishing program is not a key logger.
Key loggers cannot be distinguished by size.
Those of you who think a program that is 300kb - 500kb is automatically a key logger, are wrong.
AutoIt programs, which are common among people who make programs for use with Gaia, are almost always 300kb - 500kb.
If your Gaia was taken but your email was left untouched, you were likely not victim of a key logger.

Trading Pass Unbanner
See Unbanner in general. Same concept. Staff tool only.
Using this staff tool would actually secure a full on ban rather than just your trading pass.
This is idiocy.


If you have anything you would like me to explain or would like to add, please post it. Do not spam.