I have been getting LOADS of requests from Brazil and Vietnam!

[Tiger21820]

Has anyone else been getting huge traffic spikes from Brazil and Vietnam?

I did not realize Nintendo 3DS Central was so popular, but I really have a bad feeling about this...

Google is (as always) completely useless in explaining this rather unsettling phenomenon...

This phenomenon also happened last month too with Vietnam being our "Special Guests" of that month, but it was so bad on May 3rd that it overloaded the host's resources!

So... anyone else experiencing a similar phenomenon like this? Because I have no clue what end result Brazil and Vietnam is trying to achieve by making so many requests to Nintendo 3DS Central! Are they competing to be the #1 countries to visit Nintendo 3DS Central? Because Brazil is 3rd right now! They have made at least 7787 requests today! Or is there something more sinister at play here?

Well, whatever! If they want my praise, then... HERE YOU GO:

Happy now?

Update 1: It seems to have died down for now, but this has already happened once today, so there will probably be another spike of Brazilian traffic in a few hours or so... We were at around 800 to 900 guests, and now we are down to around 0! But next time, they'll bring in around 2500 of these things!

Brazil counter is at 8729, and total Brazil counter is at 31444 as of yesterday (as totals do not update until 19:00 each day!)! Kind of exciting, isn't it!

Update 2: THEY'RE BACK! AND THEY BROUGHT AROUND 1469 "GUYS" THIS TIME!!!!

Update 3: 3295 FREAKIN' GUESTS!!!!!

OF COURSE YOU KNOW, THIS MEANS WAR!!!!!

[Tiger21820]

WE WON THE WAR!!! I just went ahead and downloaded the ENTIRE LIST OF IP ADDRESS SUBNETS FOR VIETNAM AND BRAZIL (WHICH, MIGHT I ADD, EQUATES UP TO 26471 DIFFERENT SUBNETS!!!! I AIN'T FOOLING AROUND ANYMORE!!!), put them in my .htaccess files and basically told them to

GET THE HELL OUTTA HERE!!!!!!!!

EVERY SINGLE REQUEST FROM BRAZIL AND VIETNAM WILL BE BLOCKED FROM ACCESSING NINTENDO 3DS CENTRAL!!!!!

I still have no clue of what their end goal was, and why they would go so far to get 2 whole countries blocked from Nintendo 3DS Central... It's a shame that actual legitimate people from Brazil won't be able to access the forums... well, they can always use a proxy or VPN! It's a drastic measure that I had to take, so... Sorry Brazil! Stop sending your AI bots to inflate my statistics, and maybe we can work things out some decade!

This was our very first internet web war, up against 2 countries, and WE WON!!! WE WON AGAINST TWO COUNTRIES!!!!

[Tiger21820]

Seeing as this problem is now resolved, I'm just gonna close and archive this topic!

Also, this is Display Case material, so it's going there!