An unruly update to Abbie Hoffmans 70s counterculture bible Steal This Book, Bad Ideas lends a devilish new dimension to life, as though its users have found a way to game reality.Zoklet, the forum of bad ideas, has shuttered The long-running community of aspiring degenerates has disbanded.
Zoklet Totse Bombshock Update To AbbieRK by Roisin Kiberd October 16, 2014, 1:30pm Share Tweet Snap SWIM plans is to suitcase the essential items in SWIMS butt. SWIM will carefully triple wrap the drugs, as well as using 2 condoms. SWIM is aware of the dangers of putting drugs in SWIMS ass. It seems only natural that this post comes from a forum called Bad Ideas, a database of discussions on ill-advised activities such as PayPal fraud, car-hopping and shoplifting. The author goes on to announce the subjects intention to smuggle an iPhone into prison by similar means, making use of the acronym SWIMSomeone Who Isnt Mein an attempt to distance him or herself from the post. Advertisement Popular right around the time Jackass first debuted on TV screens, Bad Ideas was part of Zoklet.net, a forum dedicated to sharing unusual or difficult-to-find information. For years, Bad Ideas was its morbidly fascinating main draw, an online library of advice, stories and lulzy bad ideas for aspiring criminals. This month, Zoklet finally closed its doors, with its owner, known as Zok, citing health concerns, mounting surveillance, and legal fees as the cause. Over the years, Ive been contacted and questioned by the FBI, secret service, local law enforcement, lawyers, and nosy reporters It has not been a fruitful adventure, he wrote in a post. Zoklet Totse Bombshock Series Of WebsitesThis nosy reporter did try to approach Zok, but received no reply.) Zoklet was heir to a series of websites which retained the same community over 20 years, starting in 1990 with the BBS file-sharing network NIRVANAnet, then later Totse (an acronym for the psychedelic the Temple of the Screaming Electron), and after that Zoklet. Each site was founded on the tenet of freedom of information, but was doomed to collapse under the weight of its own controversy. Over the years, Ive been contacted and questioned by the FBI, secret service, local law enforcement, lawyers, and nosy reporters. When a 1993 article in the Contra Costa Times accused NIRVANAnet of providing instructions on credit card fraud, money laundering, mail fraud, counterfeiting, drug smuggling, cable-TV theft, bomb-making and murder, its founder, the pseudonymous Jeff Hunter, defended it in a letter to the editor: When you exchange messages with people on NIRVANANet(), you do not know the age, gender, race, religious affiliation, political party, hair length, mode of dress, or sexual orientation of the person you are talking to teenagers talk to grandparents, bikers talk with born-again Christians, and Socialists talk to Republicans. These people would never speak to one another if they met on the street, but because they can use computers, they freely exchange thoughts, ideas, dreams and hopes. NIRVANAnet, Totse and Zoklet held common ideals, but their message was always ultimately drowned out by infighting and trolling. Through Zoklets afterlife on Reddit ( rZoklet is a no-mans land, but rTotse is thriving), I tracked down former moderator Dfg to find out more, along with long-term forum contributor DaGuru, who was apparently something of an antagonist as he was banned from Zoklet on and off for trolling. A lot of key members had been banned, or left, and almost all the conversation on Zoklet became stuff about Zoklet. Just drama. Advertisement Dfg spoke of dedicating years of his life to the forum: Think of Zoklet as an addiction. Once you get youre just stuck If I had spent that amount of time on something else I would quite frankly be swimming in moolah. As Zoklet veered closer to crowdsourced car-crash reading, it drew enthusiastic new users but alienated the old ones. Bad Ideas exemplified Zoklets contradictory values: a sense of communal goodwill coupled with indifference to society as a whole. But the new recruits lured in by Bad Ideas took the site in a reckless direction. Zoklet Totse Bombshock How To Sell CollegeUsing the WayBack Machine, I scanned through questions about ID forgery, how high to price Adderall prescriptions for resale, and how to sell college essays online. Sometimes the advice issued is flippant (Pawn all your mommies gold), other times it is scheming and ambitious. The boards visitors claim to flashmob shops and forge casino chips, preying on corporate America. Anarchist insurrection never seems far off, with free speech pushed to its limits.
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