I just went to tygpress.com to see if Carol Anne’s (Therapy Bits) posts we’re still showing up. In her post she asked, “If you can check on tygpress for therapy bits and let me know, I’d appreciate it!”
So I did. I typed “tygpress.com” in my browser and this is what came up: Wow! Tygpress.com is “temporarily out of service.” And the out-of-service message even included an apology: “We are extremely sorry to the content owners.” Well I’ll be damned.
We did it. We shut down Tygpress!
Well, at least temporarily! How great is that?
Congratulations to all of you who made your voices heard, who posted complaints to DigitalOcean and to WordPress, who completed the forms, and who used this badge:All of your efforts seem to have worked. Woo hoo!
Now we just need to mobilize like this and maybe Trump will be a one-term President!
We’ll done to all of you! 😊 I hope will be a lesson for whom intends to do the same shit 😊
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High five!!!
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Yayy! Finally our complains did bear fruit. 🙌🏼
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Wow! High fives all round. Let’s hope they learned their lesson.
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Hope those that left see this and consider returning.
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Wow! FANTASTIC! Congratulations and well done to everyone who complained and did things to get rid of it. Wasn’t able to see well enough to join in but this is wonderful. Thankyou everyone. High fives all round. 😀
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🙂 Now, that is good news, Fandango.
What would be even much better news is Tygpress shutting down permanently.
When a small number of my followers asked me to post about this topic, I did not know that it would make such an impact.
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Your very informative post was extremely helpful, Renard.
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Wow!
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Well that was a turnaround not expected. Especially an apology on top. Wasn’t expecting this to happen at all.
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Nor did I. Sometimes the good guys win!
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Brilliant!
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Woohoo! Thank god! I am elated! This is fab! So so happy ❤
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Reblogged this on Therapy Bits and commented:
We did it, tygpress is no more! Read on for fandangos post on it! Yay guys, we did it! Hurray!
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This is great news… Yes I forwarded an article of protest, to Tygpress last two days ago….
https://ivors20.wordpress.com/2019/08/03/mumbai-shame/
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As you say the victory may be temporary, but we were noticed. Still sad we have lost Teresa (Haunted Wordsmith) and some others in the process.
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Maybe there’s a way to let them know that it’s safe to come back.
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LMAO! Yeah, Baby! (okay, temp out of service, technical issues?) I’d say that’s a damn good sign!!
We owe you so much gratitude for designing that badge… The WP bloggers should be proud to have stuck together, spreading the word, and zapping these bastards!
I’m a little loopy, 3 hours of sleep, no coffee, an this is what I read too first thing!!!
OMG! I’m so freakin’ happy! 🤗
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I hope the badge help a little but it was a true grassroots effort on the part of our wonderful blogging community that made it happen!
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Oh, you know that badge helped! That was one o the greatest ideas and yes, we all came together to fight this. “Flashdance” song comes to mind… “What a Feeling” LOL! 🤗😜
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I hoped it helped a little.
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Most definitely did!😊
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That’s great new. I did not expect a response let alone an apology. It’s nice to know that people power can still work.
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Reblogged this on Our Other Blog: Two Sisters and Two Points of View and commented:
Well here is some good news. The web harvesting site Tygpress has been temporarily closed down.
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You did great!!
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Fabulous news!
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Yay!!!!!!!! well done Fandango. It was your graphic that scared them off 🤣
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YES. Fandango, BRILLIANT IDEA for the badge.
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Yes! I saw it this morning, as well. Hallelujah!
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Next we get rid of that bum.
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Yes. I just asked Fandango if he’d make a “Cheeto” badge that looks similar.
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Hurrah!
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HOLY! COW!!!!!!!! 😂🏆👏👏👏
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Congratulations People! Hopefully we didn’t just lose the battle! Even so WHAT A TEAM!!!!!!!! ❤❤❤👏👏👏😂🌈🥂 I love you guys!!!!
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Let’s give credit to where it’s due. You were not the only complainant. I complained EVERYWHERE including Google and WordPress and anywhere else I could think to lodge a complaint. This one is from Website Informer:
Re: website.informer.com ticket #0ed4a9
Inbox
x
website.informer.com website@informer.com via freshdesk.com
3:29 AM (8 hours ago)
to me
Hello,
Thanks for your message. Could you please send us a direct link to this info on website.informer.com? We will remove it asap.
Best Regards,
Website.Informer Project Team
On Fri, 2 Aug at 11:28 PM , MARILYN ARMSTRONG wrote:
This is a full spammer website stealing other people’s material without authorization or permission. Does not create any of his/her own material but steals it, largely from WordPress but probably from others, too. Remove him. Dangerous.
79011:414394
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I hope you don’t think I was trying to claim credit for the temporary takedown of the tygpress site. Mine was just one among many who were activists against that site stealing our creative content. This was a collective win for which many of us played a part.
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Which is why maybe (MAYBE!) it helped. But there are so many sites like this. Uncountable numbers of them.
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AND, by the way, they are back up. Not 100%, but bet you bippy they will be in a few days.
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Not when I go there. Maybe like the sunset, it hasn’t come to California yet.
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My hero!🕺🏻
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Thanks, but it wasn’t just me. It was all of us expressing our collective outrage.
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Develop a “No Trump No Way” badge. I’ll certainly display it! 😉
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Wow! Can’t believe they even apologized. Great result!
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YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So happy our bombardings had an effect. Fandango, can you make a similar “Cheeto” badge???? I want one for my main page.
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I’ll see what I can come up with.
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How about something like this?
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Fine Cheeto imagery.
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🙂
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FYI, you can stop celebrating. They are back up. In pieces, but don’t worry, it’ll all be back soon enough.
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Weird. I just went to the site and I’m still getting the “temporarily out of service due to technical issues” message.
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Try it again. They ARE back up.
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I just did and it’s till not up for me. Maybe they blocked my IP address.
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They will come and go until they found a platform that hasn’t banned them. Unless they decide to use their OWN servers, in which case all bets are off.
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They changed their name to tyngpress.com and were back up, but now they are “temporarily out of service.” Getting these guys out of business is not a one shot. It’s a process.
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We’ll have to keep an eye on it. Because they WERE back up — pictures without links — and now they are down again. But they are trying to get back up and I’m pretty sure they will succeed. All they have to do is find the right criminal platform.
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Grrr!
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Between FB and the Russians and OUR OWN GOVERNMENT, how much power do we really have in this mess? It’s why i get so tired. It’s like Alice in Wonderland: you have to run as fast as you can just to stay in the same place.
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Life is a treadmill!
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It wasn’t always this toxic.
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Very true.
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Just checked minutes ago and the “temporarily out of service” message is still there with the apology. There is strength in numbers!
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👍
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Well I obviously was a little late to the party!
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Party On, Garth! 😏
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Right there with you, Wayne!
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