[jstanley]

I don't understand?

They're getting back at Krebs by donating to a charity?

[IAmEveryone]

Yeah, I was having a bit of trouble as well...

They're not (intentionally) DDOSing the charity. The charity's website is simply overloaded from visitors seeking to donate.

The charity's slogan is "Cancer (Krebs) is one of the worst problems of our time". So I guess it makes sense. Somehow.

It's the sort of passive-egressive altruism that quite elegantly straddles the divide of childishness and maturity.

[lweber]

The word "Krebs" in German translates to crab as well as cancer. They are donating to the charities that work against cancer and are commenting "Krebs ist scheiße" which would translate to "Cancer is shit" as well as "[Brian ]Krebs is shit".

[ChrisSD]

But aren't they still, in essence, donating to charity to get back at Krebs?

[lawl]

I think it's more of a peaceful protest against his questionable journalism practices rather than getting back at him.

But yes.

[Tomte]

Yes, that makes it so beautiful, IMO.

And since the server crashed, they donated to other charities, as well. DKMS saw many donations, as well.

[tscs37]

Cancer translates to Krebs in germany, they're donating to "fight against Krebs" so to speak.

[namibj]

They are DDOSing a german cancer help, krebshilfe. See the substring match?

[lawl]

They aren't (intentionally) DDoSing. The site simple couldn't handle the legitimate load of thousands of donations.