[Happy Holidays] Hack Forums News // E.539 // December 2023

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[Happy Holidays] Hack Forums News // E.539 // December 2023 - Sky - Nov 29, 2023

BH-ESCROW SCAMS
A group of scammers have been found to be running an escrow site designed to target new members of the forum. If any user encourages you to use BH-Escrow.com you should report them to Omniscient to be dealt with. You can view additional information about this by viewing this thread.

GROUP THREAD PREFIX REMOVAL TOOL
Group owners were requesting that when a member is removed from their group that their thread lose the Group Prefix. After encountering some complications meeting that request, the decision to add a tool into the GroupCP for the owners to enter a TID (Thread ID) which will reset/empty the threads prefix was implemented to the site. The thread announcing this new feature can be found here.

HACK FRIDAY CUSTOM AWARD SALE
For Hack Friday 2023, users have been given the opportunity to purchase their very own custom award to have on the site and the ability to grant them to other members depending on which package was purchased. You can read the thread announcing this by following this link.

SITE STATS

Total

Posts: 62,198,416
Threads: 6,257,341
Members: 5,454,436

Average

Daily Posts: 10,255.79
Daily Threads: 1,031.76
Daily New Members: 899.37
Posts Per Member: 11.4
Replies Per Thread: 8.94

GROUP COUNTS

Groups (Click to View)

GROUP & CREW NEWS

Succubus group is still listed for sale by SecretAchiever101
Marketers group is still listed for sale by [mention=4227846]
COINED group has been listed for sale by Migos

The Feds crew has been listed for sale by Scrubspoof
BlackCats crew is still listed for sale by Zexo
Mafia crew is still listed for sale by T0fu
Red Lions crew is still listed for sale by B3A

RECRUITMENTS

Warriors Open-Recruitment
Equilibrium Recruitment
Gamblers Buy-in & Recruitment
Marketers Recruitment
Marketers Buy-in
Olympians Recruitment
Pink LSZ Recruitment
Red Lions Recruitment
Mast3r Recruitment

You can view Groups & Crews of past and present here: https://hackforums.net/showthread.php?tid=6177244

USER NEWS

Sky was granted The Protector, Support Feather, and Cool awards.
Proof received the Cool and Da' Bomb awards.
Scrubspoof has earned the Black Hatter award for the second time.

Pentatonix has reached 2,000 popularity.

BANS & CLOSURES

Lynx requested closure of his account.
Scrubspoof was banned and shortly after unbanned.
Dev Null was banned permanently while the account is under investigation.
ร乇CU尺I丅ү ™ was closed for luring members off-site to scam them.
Europe was closed for threatening members lives after being banned to have the account investigated.
Many ban-evading losers that eat corn on the cob the long way got excommunicated as well.

VACATIONS

Doctor. has taken a vacation ban for 6-months.
Local Celeb has taken a vacation ban for 6-months.

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HACK FRIDAY UPGRADES SALE
A limited time offer was posted to give members the opportunity to purchase lifetime memberships of L33t and Ub3r. You can read about it here.

HACK FRIDAY LEFTOVERS
were all listed for purchase with bytes for a limited time. The prices were doubled from last years Hack Friday Leftovers sale. The announcement was made with this thread.

GROUP LEADER LIMITS
After a group owner abused the power of granting other members leadership in their group, limitations were put into place to avoid this feature being abused in the future. Omniscient discusses this change in this thread.

GROUP THREADS - PUBLIC DISCUSSION
Discussion was started about potentially having a page located on showgroups.php that would have select threads from the group available for public view. This would be an interesting way of seeing which groups are contributing content to the site. Join in on the conversation by sharing your thoughts or opinions here.

BUY ONE, GET ONE SCRATCHCARDS - GIFT AWARD 2023
Gift Award 2023 was available for one day only as a part of a Cyber Monday event. Scratchcards had a limited time offer of buy one, get one free and users who purchased $100 or more in scratchcards would receive the award as a bonus. You can view the details on this here. As of writing this, another new gift award has been added, Yellow Gift Award 2023. You can read more about it in the thread provided in this article.

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RE: [Happy Holidays] Hack Forums News // E.539 // December 2023 - DemonAsylum - Nov 30, 2023

"Many ban-evading losers that eat corn on the cob the long way got excommunicated as well." 🤣🤣

Great article as always my man 👍

RE: [Happy Holidays] Hack Forums News // E.539 // December 2023 - StuffSneak - Dec 1, 2023

Thanks for the update! Good to catch up with everything at one place.

RE: [Happy Holidays] Hack Forums News // E.539 // December 2023 - Bastille - Dec 1, 2023

Thanks for the news and congrats for your awards Sky 🥳

RE: [Happy Holidays] Hack Forums News // E.539 // December 2023 - Prince™ - Dec 1, 2023

Making a whole new website just to scam some members from HF? That sounds pathetic.

Kudos for warning us in the news. Thank you.

RE: [Happy Holidays] Hack Forums News // E.539 // December 2023 - Eran - Dec 2, 2023

Nice to see this still going strong. Happy Holidays indeed!

RE: [Happy Holidays] Hack Forums News // E.539 // December 2023 - Almonds - Dec 4, 2023

Good work, excellent read!

RE: [Happy Holidays] Hack Forums News // E.539 // December 2023 - Mx. - Dec 5, 2023

great post, its always interesting to see why someone got banned.

RE: [Happy Holidays] Hack Forums News // E.539 // December 2023 - NickyDev - Dec 6, 2023

nice work, and i have question: "what is a group" on Hacking-forum?

RE: [Happy Holidays] Hack Forums News // E.539 // December 2023 - Sky - Dec 6, 2023

(Dec 6, 2023 07:47 AM)NickyDev Wrote: nice work, and i have question: "what is a group" on Hacking-forum?

There are official usergroups and there are custom usergroups.

Custom usergroups are member owner/purchased groups that allow a custom userbar and private subforum to those in it.

An official usergroup is an Admin created usergroup. Such as Staff, Ub3r, Leet and v3ndor.

RE: [Happy Holidays] Hack Forums News // E.539 // December 2023 - NickyDev - Dec 7, 2023

(Dec 6, 2023 10:50 AM)Sky Wrote: There are official usergroups and there are custom usergroups.

Custom usergroups are member owner/purchased groups that allow a custom userbar and private subforum to those in it.

An official usergroup is an Admin created usergroup. Such as Staff, Ub3r, Leet and v3ndor.

oh thanks buddy for helping this 👍