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Catalog wiping
To be researched: Compile any undocumented, notable sharty cattywipes. Can (You) help us?Catalog wiping, also known as cattywiping, is when enough new threads are created on a board to completely replace all old ones, completely deleting the whole board. Its namesake is the catalog mode, which allows you to view all the threads in a grid.
Cattywipes used to be more common on the Sharty, particularly /soy/, before hourly thread limits were added. In addition to the fact that one IP can only make a thread roughly every minute or so, this makes catty wiping even while utilizing a botnet very difficult. Catalog wiping is detrimental to websites like the Sharty, but moreso to deader imageboard websites such as the 'fe. Some imageboards may utilize a rollback system to undo catty wiping, such as 4cuck, but this is not always the case.
Examples[edit | edit source]
On [s4s][edit | edit source]
A regular occurrence in the original 2013 days of the board, with various participants such as "Gippo Dudee" attempting a board takeover, blimps and even one of the earliest catty wipes of /po/.
On kwah[edit | edit source]
Spamming on /qa/ was common and even now in some cases because jans don't care for quay anymore, alongside catty wipes. However, a notable one was when a /vt/humor did it. I think it was with an image of Gar gurwa or whatever the pedophile shark one is.
On the Sharty[edit | edit source]
On the Sharty, notable examples of catty wiping would be the Kara boga spammers from 2020-2022, the giga 'catty wipe, the pepe 'catty wipes, and the wojak catty wipe. There was also a recent example in 2024 of spadeson wiping the 'log because a Soygem Pass user plugged the pass cookie into a bot. Quote needs to figure out how 4cuck avoids this.
In september 2025, the biggest Lennonjak cattywipe wave was caused by a botnet attacking /soy/. This caused the captcha to get enabled for a day.
Types of cattywipes[edit | edit source]
- Neutralplier spam and similar blogposts until they were banned by Froot
- Muttjaks
- Baby bot spam (This was especially common during late Doll era)
- In the months preceding the soypocalypse, there were actual 'p wipes done on the site[1]
- Numberjacks on /nate/ (where it belongs)
See also[edit | edit source]
- Nightly raids - Subform of wipes which only happen at night. Uncommon today.
- Raids - For wipes outside the Sharty
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