The hacker 4chan strikes again!
I was late to the raid days. Forums seemed so small and inclusive back then I would imagine even the slightest trolling would royalty piss people off.
It was pretty common for the goons to forum or game raid for kicks.
I'll admit in my 20s I was a huge troll.
PPHB Forums back in the day had way less protections against just making accounts and posting instantly. Lemonparty and tubgirl pictures being posted en masse to forums at 4AM when all mods were asleep was quite common.
And some of the shit you could do in games was downright comical. It was goons who got blizzard to make "griefing" a bannable offense in warcraft 3 when we ratcheted up the team killing hilarity. But way before that was Ultima online, the first world of warcraft type game. No separate servers for people who wanted to roleplay, just one big happy Catskills server lol.
You could level carpentry up and wait in town till someone stood in or near a corner in a public building and instantly build a table and shelf, trapping him in the corner.....FOR HOURS.
The guy would not be able to do shit until an admin removed the stuff if he didn't have carpentry skill. He could log off and would be in the same spot when he logged back on.
Some games had dumb mechanics that really let you mess with the world. Second life was the funniest. We once made it rain dicks and had floating dildos during a live CNET broadcast for some Chinese lady who ripped a bunch of people off in game by role-playing herself as a real estate agent. It was like a role players type game and this chick made real money off the game, but when goons set their sights on a game, it usually involved HUNDREDS of us logging on to a game to fuck around for weeks or months.