On April 10th, 2020, the 35,000 member community of r/teenagers was woken up by several pings from Pigeon, the server bot. The incident caused not only hundreds of pings throughout the server, but also handing out a handful to mutes, even losing over a hundred members out of irritation.
The person behind 4/11
Sometime in early 2020, Altii shared the source code of the server’s bot, Pigeon, with an ex-moderator named MarkusG.
On April 10th, 2020, at 6:07 PM EST, Mark utilized an overseen exploit using the bot’s “!!usage” command; entering a phrase that was not a command within the bot would result in the output of “Could not find command: ___”. By entering “!!usage @everyone” into #bot-commands, Pigeon responded with the now-infamous phrase, “Could not find command: @everyone”
Bot Commands:
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Lasting Impact
Even after four years, the 4/11 incident, or the @altii incident, remains a notable topic among the server members. References to this event continue, often getting the curiosity of new members. Some users even humorously proposed the idea of commemorating the day with a ‘Happy 4/11 :)’ celebration.”
As you may have noticed a single user (now deleted) has stared hundreds of peoples messages reacting to pigeons @everyone messages. its hard to tell when this happened or how it happened, but its very impressive. If anyone knows who this user is or how it happened, let us know.
