One time I posted my ass on a forum. A woman was posting her tits and I said my ass had more cleavage than her. She called me out. I posted. She deleted her account after being made fun of by everyone in the subreddit.
It then got reposted on reddit best of. So at least 2 separate groups of people laughed at my ass/that woman.
Even got my own thirsty message which was different.
I appreciated the confidence boost this gave me. But now my ass is out there. Maybe you’ve seen it?
What’s a dumb thing you did online?
No ragrets tho
I set up a password manager for all of my online accounts, on Linux:
- create entry in password manager
- copy password with crtl+c
- click on “change password” in online account
- enter old password
- paste new password in using middle-click
- repeat for every single account I had
- shut down PC after a job well done
Why this was dumb:
Linux has two separate clipboards.
One for ctrl+c/v and another one for mouse-select/middle-click.
I had copied from the password manager using one clipboard, but pasted whatever was in the other clipboard at that moment as new password for all my accounts.
The reboot of course emptied both clipboardsI posted nudes on my blog after a guy I liked jokingly, drunkenly asked for them. A couple people at work knew about the blog, but we were friends, so it wasn’t a big deal. When I went in to work the next day, I realized that a LOT more people knew about my blog than I’d thought.
Oof.
I tried paying for something off Facebook Marketplace over the internet rather than in-person. Of course I was scammed. Fortunately it was only for about $35.
Sexted. Honestly before this I never understood what’s so arousing about it and kinda thought it was dumb but damn it was actually very fun tbh. Never actually read sexting other people have done so I had 0 experience and turns out the other person was same.
We were both innocent (at least I was) and it was very funny how hard we tried to get each other’s things going. I’d be thinking to do one thing and they’d thinking to one thing and there was a lot of confusion lol.
And now to the dumbiest part, I STILL have those chats on my phone. I could delete them even now but idk I kinda not want to delete them?
Take it off the phone, keep in a more secret location. Not cherishing a good memory would be equally dumb.
I put on my robe and wizard hat?
Harrrrrrr.
Downloaded porn and gave the family computer a virus XD
Just one?
Steamy.stuff.avi.exe is done downloading.
I also grew up in the 90s
I did a lot of stupid stuff as a teenager but most of it is forgotten.
Someone tricked me into stealing my unique gloves in diablo2 once. Felt real stupid after but they just blocked me and I never saw them again. (I think it was that if you die when the item was being moved it drops onto the ground, so they told me to swap my gloves in a pvp fight and then killed me)
Posted my opinion
Yes, this!
And sometimes I even discuss about it. The worst thing, really.
discuss about
‘Discuss’ is a transitive verb, and so the ‘about’ is as redundant as saying “ATM Machine”.
Well, correct and thanks!
I co-owned a semi popular console ROM and PC piracy site as a teenager with two others. While it was a lot of fun especially in the forum and I made a lot of cool friends, it was very risky in hindsight. I’m amazed we never even got C&D emails before we lost interest in the project once life got busy.
Basically it was direct download for ROM files while PC games and console ISO were shared on the forum in the Warez-bb styling. This grew the active daily forum users rapidly at the time who then stuck around to yap.
Captain!
This sailor probably enjoyed your hospitality back in the day.
Thank you much!
I had a twenty gig warez ftp site for a few years. At the time the average hard drive was 1 gig. It was on a T1. 1.5Mbps was Lightning fast.
I mean, twenty gigs was more than anyone would ever be able to use.
Ah, my teenage hero. Good chance I direct downloaded something; the Internet was so much better back then, lol.
Possibly you did! Discoverability was easier back then too, people were still using ROM site link lists. We’d add ourselves to all of them manually and then we slowly crawled up Google’s page ranking passively! Now most everyone (not counting anyone reading this comment) has an allergic reaction to a social hub not owned by a corporation.
This is awesome. In the off chance i had downloaded a ROM from your site back then, thank you so much.
I guess unknowingly arguing with an IA agent
A long time ago on a random modders forum, I was a part of a very small contest to judge mods at the end of the year. No prizes, just kind of a honorary showcase post which I guess was considered cool at the time.
It essentially fell down to just me to play about ~6 entries over the course of the month and then post the rankings.
Well I was having dire internet and computer issues at the time. My internet was bad but my average was suddenly dragging at 0.5kb/s on average and I had what I later learned was a failing HDD. I kept thinking it would eventually get better but it didn’t. I barely got a single mod downloaded.
Now the dumb part: Rather than be a sane person and admit I was having technical issues and would have to hand it over to someone else (which I was already running up on the deadline, leaving anyone I handed it to unable to complete it before then), but instead I tried to power through.
I kept expecting the internet to magically get better and then use the power of last minute energy to tackle it. When the magic never happened, at the last minute I simply ranked the mods based on vibe with the only one I played being in the number one spot.
No one seemed to dispute it until one contestant saw his entry didn’t have a single download and immediately figured out I never played it. Then it all came into question and soon enough the site Admins banned me from being a judge and canceled the whole thing.
That was the last contest the forum hosted until it ended up folding a year or two later.
This is bad and you should feel bad.
It definitely qualifies as a strong candidate for doing a dumb thing on the internet. I’d almost rank it as first place for the dumbest*
*That I’ve read so far, no follow-up questions will be accepted
Okay, but you can’t post a story like that and not pay the ass tax. It’s literally tax evasion, a serious internet crime.
I dunno what’s the dumbest thing. I guess it was using the same username and/or email address on enough sites that I was eventually tracked down and doxxed by someone on a site called Fark of all places.
Yeah same, using the same username on all sites I registered on, for over 10 years…
Oh I should look into that. I’ve been using mine for years and honestly thought it’d happen sooner but I guess I’m not pretty enough to be cyber stalked.
I once downloaded a file from Limewire or Kazaa or one of those programs. It was 10mb but labelled Final Fantasy X for PC.
It was definitely a lot more of a virus than it was FFX.
I remember reading an article about how those programs would increase your speed if you shared more files. Sharing “My Documents” was the only logical action to take…
Luckily it was just school essays and the like, but that was dumb.
Big brain time was using limewire to download limewore pro to get the blue download bar and (provably faked) 7KBps speed instead of 6KBps.
Social media, including Lemmy. It just feeds my misery but at the same time its addictive
Commenting on posts about politics.
Especially about the US from inside the house 😶
I’m really beginning to think I should quit that. Even voting isn’t secret here.
Hey, it’s worked wonders for decades so far! Why not risk getting ICEd for it, ya know? 😶🌫️
I was one of the fucking idiots that preordered No Man’s Sky. The devs have done a lot to make up for it, so I don’t really regret it anymore as it’s a decent game now, but at release it was so drastically bare-bones compared to what they advertised that if the legal system actually gave a shit about consumer protection, the staff of Hello Games would have served jail time.
But Sean was a charismatic little con artist, and he cut right past my defense. bUt ThiS gUy’S diFfeReNt!! Bruh I fuckin knew better than that!
Don’t feel bad I put money into star citizen early on and I still don’t have a stable playable game.
Star Citizen, Yooka-Laylee, Broken Age, A Hat in Time, The Good Life.
At least A Hat in Time was a solid W.
When i read things like that, i’m confused, because i never bought a word that Sean said and all their demos looked fake as hell.
Then i remember that i pre-ordered Brink
I wanted so badly to believe… so I did… cuz I’m a dumbass.
The good thing about it is that i never pre-ordered a game again and became way more cynical about the video game industry and more careful in general.
the staff serving jail time would make no sense as they’re not the ones in charge of marketing decisions. the CEO, and the managers? sure
Idk who decides what in an indie studio, but whatever the job title, I’m talking about those involved in deceiving their customers… and there was a lot of that with NMS.
Sending people to jail for launching a bad but harmless product is psychotic
It’s not for launching a bad product. It’s for lying about what the product is. It’s fraud. There’s no excuse for that.
If I sell you a 2025 Ferrari then give you a 2011 Honda Civic, I broke the law and you got scammed.
Even if I take the unexpected step of sending you a civic-to-Ferrari conversion kit after the fact that makes the car I delivered somewhat comparable to the one I advertised, that doesn’t excuse the initial deception.
What they did was deliberate and dishonest - it’s awesome that they’ve taken (a shit ton of) steps since to make it right, but it’ll never be right.
Holding them accountable is not psychotic.
