What is this? :S  (Read 1261 times)

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Jayjay36

What is this? :S
« on: 21 Apr 2013, 13:10:37 »
I was on google searching old Noobstown players.. I'm weird and sometimes I wonder where some of my old noobs went to and I came across this random list of names... All of them are old/current NoobsCraft members, but some people aren't there like myself D: http://pastebin.com/8MxwRH4n
« Last Edit: 21 Apr 2013, 13:14:47 by Jayjay36 »

MagicMan27

Re: What is this? :S
« Reply #1 on: 22 Apr 2013, 02:15:58 »
I am not on there, good!
This looks like a list of people on line at the same time as a person, but this must have been over a long period based on some names on there are are from different times about months apart.
« Last Edit: 22 Apr 2013, 02:29:30 by MagicMan27 »

FireIce808

Re: What is this? :S
« Reply #2 on: 22 Apr 2013, 02:32:10 »
im on the list. number 58 hmmm what does it mean?

ItsLawrence

Re: What is this? :S
« Reply #3 on: 22 Apr 2013, 09:42:16 »
They aren't all usernames of Noobstown players, just the first few. I assume that someone has simply gone into our members list (which is freely accessable here: http://www.noobscraft.com/mlist/ when logged in) and copied down a number of users, or it might be that the player was simply collecting names of those who connected to Noobstown on a specific day and those are just the users who did so, thus explaining why you are not there.

Whatever the reason it is unlikely we will find out why you aren't there Jayjay or why you are 58th Fire :(, but it isn't something you should be particularly worried about, there are hundreds of ways for a list of Minecraft usernames to be generated.

I'm more interested in how you came across this list to be honest. :D

Foob

Re: What is this? :S
« Reply #4 on: 22 Apr 2013, 15:09:56 »
I'm 10th :(

There are people/bots actively doing this on a daily basis, carrying out large scale gathering of Minecraft account names. I wouldn't feel threatened by this file, just be warning of any dodgy sites/emails related to Minecraft, there are plenty of people trying to steal accounts to sell, spam servers, or break rules. Make sure everything on your account is secure and you'll be fine.

edixsabourin

Re: What is this? :S
« Reply #5 on: 22 Apr 2013, 16:23:22 »
I joined the day after this was posted, (the list) ir's weird but probably nothing to worry about since it was posted a long time ago.

Jayjay36

Re: What is this? :S
« Reply #6 on: 22 Apr 2013, 20:10:26 »
I found it by searching IGNs of people who used to play with or speak to on Noobs, on google, hoping to catch them on another server to see how things have been. Weird, I know haha.

Nebih

Re: What is this? :S
« Reply #7 on: 25 Apr 2013, 03:27:49 »
Woah i'm 16th! :D