TCRF Says Its Wiki Was Hit by a DDoS Attack After Banning an AI User

Summary

The Cutting Room Floor (TCRF), a volunteer-run wiki that archives unused video-game content and unreleased builds, is temporarily offline after a DDoS attack. TCRF says the attack appears to have followed a dispute with a user who was banned after using Claude Code and attempting to evade the ban. The site has an anti-AI policy and displays custom MS Paint messages to visitors using ChatGPT and other LLM tools, including a warning about prompt injection. According to TCRF, the user objected after receiving one of those messages, posted that they had reported the site to its hosting provider, and later submitted abuse reports. TCRF says those actions seemed to trigger the outage, while stressing that it has not directly accused the user of carrying out the attack. The user, Ron Stoner, did not respond to Kotaku’s request for comment but asked Grok for legal advice about possible defamation. TCRF co-founder Xkeeper cited the user’s posts about allegedly manipulating LLMs and conducting a Sybil attack, while acknowledging that a Sybil attack is distinct from a DDoS attack. TCRF says its server is online and healthy, but access will remain blocked until the DDoS subsides; no restoration time was given.