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What is WonderGamer.net?

WonderGamer.net is a non-profit website that currently does not have ads (have not found a service with ads that I would like to put on the site) & very little use of external plugins.  We currently do not have a means for visitors to leave comments, however it's something we've looked into.  WonderGamer.net provides the following:

More to come

I have been attempting to find a means to add an external feed of gaming news into the home page, so far I haven't found a reputable source to do it from.  Once I find one that allows a feed to other sites, we're going to look into getting that embedded on this page so there will be daily updates as apposed to limited updates due to limited time to work on the site.

In the future, I'm aiming to fill WonderGamer.net with gaming information such as gaming databases, tips & playthroughs, similar to sites such as GameFAQs.

LATEST UPDATE

2/1/2026

We've managed to pinpoint a few issues on the site & have found fixes for some of them, however it will take a little while to complete this over the entire site:

As was stated before, there were issues that started when the site was forced to HTTPS through our host.  Some of this we can address, others we can't without switching certain services we are using.  One issue is the counters that are provided through BoingDragon.  Many web browsers now-a-days do not like processing lower-level security content in combination with high-level security websites.  BoingDragon still runs on HTTP, this would explain why any page on this site may have been reading as "Not Secure", because it was detecting those counters that were still trying to load at the HTTP security level.  We are looking at alternatives for another counter service that will run at the HTTPS level that we can transfer our counters to, however it may take some time to find one that is up to our standards & even longer to change the code on every page on the site (there is well over 3000 files on this site the last time we did a backup).

While we work on the issues as stated in the bullet's above, there may be short outages if we hit a server misconfiguration while attempting to fix them (these are typically fixed in a matter of seconds when we notice them).

We also have a backlog of reviews that we intend to publish on video games & other products, however there are other matters that are currently more important that need to be taken care of first.  Aside from the fixes that were mentioned earlier in this update, this also includes daily updates of the articles necessary, a few of these articles that have been getting updated daily lately have been the Phone & Steam Troll Blacklists, as well as the newest review on the site that recently got recategorized as a multi-review between 800notes & Steam (now more a Steam review than 800notes, but it started primarily as a 800notes review, until their trolls started contributing to the Steam harassment efforts).  We had to strip out all links we had on the site that were going to 800notes for supporting information in the Phone Blacklist because we determined 800notes was not a safe environment for our visitors, so it's now a blacklist site that some of our staff has already put blocks on the site through our routers/modems (this prevents anybody on our home networks from being able to access the site, including visitors that may be using the wifi).

Because the harassment efforts are still going from Steam (starting in October of 2023) & now stronger than ever, we are going to have to proceed with a number of IP ban waves to cull their numbers in those that are abusing this site in their doxing & slander efforts.  Because they are utilizing proxies & VPNs to get around bans, this means it's likely more people are going to get banned that don't deserve it when new ban ranges need to be applied (these bans can go anywhere from a single IP address up to 65536 IPs per user & most of them just jump to another proxy/VPN when they get banned again, so their actions can literally get half a million IP addressed banned in under an hour).  To lower the risk of being banned from the site, limit your access to the site to a few articles per day (index pages & downloads don't count if from the same article) & avoid using VPNs, proxies or anonymizer services.  Remember that IPs banned are only made public when they fall under one of the blacklists on the site (mainly the Hacking IP Blacklist), abuse of the site outside of hacking attempts does not warrant a publication of those IPs (this is why we were having problems with the bans applying, we were trying to separate them in separate lists in the site's active configuration).  Note that DDoS attacks can appear as hacking attempts, these will be IPs that will get published if they are detected as malicious attempts to compromise the security of the site.

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FAQs

How do I navigate the website?

The site is meant to be in a similar fashion to folders on your computer.  The starting navigation structure can be found at the top of most pages, with additional quick navigation links at the bottom of each article (not so much article index pages).  Once you get to an index page, you will get a vertical list of pages to pick from, the quick links can be used to quickly switch between pages on the same level (as well as go back to the home page or up one level).

Does WonderGamer.net write all it's own articles?

Most articles on the site are written by the owner of WonderGamer.net, however sometimes we accept outside articles, provided enough backup information is provided to be considered legitimate information.  We wish for WonderGamer.net to be as accurate as possible, so we won't accept articles without sufficient backup information to what is being stated; photos/screenshots & videos can help in determining whether we will use outside articles being sent to us.

Does WonderGamer.net respond to the public?  How can I contact the staff of WonderGamer.net?

We do respond to the public when we have time, however depending on the type of contact that is being made, you may not get a response or might be blocked from contacting us again.  There is a contact link at the bottom of this page (designed to work with email clients, not so much webmail) if you ever wish to contact us about something on the site.

I've been banned from the site...  What did I do to get banned?  Can I be unbanned?

A lot of the time getting a ban message can be a false-positive, it might be you are attempting to access hotlink-protected content from a site that hasn't been added to our hotlink whitelists.  If it is a legitimate IP ban, then you're going to find you can't even access this page (those who get a ban message will see a 404 page with your IP address on it).

WonderGamer.net has had to be very aggressive with IP bans due to near daily hacking attempts on the site, this unfortunately means you might get unfairly banned due to being in an IP ban range based on hacking attempts from multiple IPs in that range.  In the event that you do find yourself banned, there will be instructions on the 404 page stating on how to appeal a ban.  You will need to include your IP address in the ban appeal so we can determine if you have attempted to hack the site or not (as well as to unban you).  Once a successful ban appeal has been made, we will adjust the ban ranges on our side to allow you access to the site again, however this can be a problem if you are on a dynamic IP address (you can check this at WhatIsMyIPAddress.com), seeing as dynamic IP addresses are prone to changing & you may find your new IP address after a change in the same (or another) ban range again.  If it is found that your IP address is in our raw access logs with hacking activity on them, you will not be unbanned under any circumstance!

Also note that a number of proxies have been banned from accessing the site prior to any hacking activity; we do not believe that people should be able to use a proxy/VPN to hide their identity to abuse (or otherwise commit illegal actions against) our site & reserve the right to file complaints against ISPs that are allowing that activity to happen.

Additionally we've had to block traffic from a number of more popular search engines due to negation of pages from their search engines (or complete wipes of our site), these search engines currently include the following:

The color scheme hurts my eyes, how can I change it?

We currently don't have a means to allow the public to change the color scheme.  We've addressed the concern before & came up with a rough draft on the home page to ask their opinion of it, those individuals never did get back to us on the rough draft, so it ended up getting reverted.  If somebody is serious in wanting a different color scheme, they need to make sure they are going to be available to get back to us on the changes, otherwise any changes made will be reverted due to non-response.  It is possible to change the color scheme yourself through many different browsers, this might be the easier way to do it rather than asking us to do it.

It's been suggested in the past that we should use sites such as Wordpress to host the site on, however we've had negative experiences on Wordpress in the past & chose not to take that route (we actually started on there, later moving to Blogspot, then eventually moved the site to our own domain).  We wanted our site to be indexed in search engines, however due to the nature of certain reviews, they would always get reported & the entire site would get removed from those search engines & unfindable if on free services that allowed abuse of the report function.  Renting a domain & host was the best method we could take to make sure the site was still findable by the public, however we do still have issues with certain pages continuously getting de-indexed from search engines for reasons they really never give details on (we may eventually start blocking traffic from certain search engines if this continues to be a problem)...

Another thing to point out is the most common hacking attempts on WonderGamer.net has been individuals attempting to access Wordpress admin login pages.  We found that using newer web protocols only left us open to a much higher risk of the site being compromised & the high likelihood our visitors would be exposed to malware from the culprits, so external plugins are kept at a minimum, only bringing in new ones when we don't really have the option to add a function ourselves & only after extensive research to make sure those services are safe & work to our standards.

I don't like an article you have published, take it down now!

You are always free to complain about an article if you don't like it, but that doesn't mean it will be taken down.  If the complaint would indicate that you are a representative/individual of the subject of an article, it is possible that your complaint will be added to the article or as a new article to back up the one that's being complained about, so take care on just how descriptive (or abusive) you choose to send your inquiries when contacting us.

What information does WonderGamer.net collect from it's users?  Will that information ever be sold to a 3rd party?

Technically speaking, no data is collected on users themselves, however site traffic & referral traffic is logged through analytical webmaster services & (no longer accurate after stripping both Google & Bing Analytics out of the site) through the internal raw access logs.  In cases where a YouTube/Twitch video may have been accessed, YouTube/Twitch will be the one collecting the information (regardless of whether it's a video that we have created or not, that information will be available to the owner of the video).  Information that we have access to will never be sold to a 3rd party & should never be made public.  The only exception to publication of any of this information will be when a user is attempting to compromise the security of WonderGamer.net (hacking the site), in which case the IP address and/or host address from where the attempted hack originated will be added to the Hacker IP blackist & access to the site will be banned from that address.  We are also obligated by law to provide information to law enforcement should we ever get subpoenaed for information on a visitor of WonderGamer.net.

Will there ever be a public comment function?

We have looked at this in the past & as of yet, have not found a system that we would like to use with WonderGamer.net.  Shoutbox was one of the services we attempted to contact about moderation capabilities, they never responded to the inquiry, so obviously we weren't going to use a service that didn't fit our guidelines in keeping spam & abuse off of the site.  When we find a service that fits the specifications we are looking for to add it to the site, that is when the ability to publicly leave a comment will become a reality, not just a research subject where we're searching for the ideal system.

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The following are not technically frequently asked questions (FAQs), but these have been common accusations for almost a year since 2023, so we decided it was time to address these concerns publicly.
Note that many of these are cleaned up versions of what is usually stated in these defamation claims.

You are running a doxxing site!

WonderGamer.net is not a doxxing site & this accusation was started by the Steam troll community towards the end of 2023, later supported by misinformation channels like CutCafe on YouTube & later affecting anybody associated with WonderGamer.net through doxxing efforts by Steam trolls by locating & attacking their profiles on other platforms.  There has been an ongoing flow of harassment/internet stalking & a few successful (management supported) attacks against our webmaster on multiple sites since the start of this movement in October of 2023.

Not long after, the Aurora Gladiators clan on Warframe (a part of The Gladiators Legion alliance) was expected to be a contributing factor to why the webmaster of WonderGamer.net was booted from the clan (there will probably be an individual review published about this later).  In the discussion with one of their members after the incident on 9/8/2024 (via whisper in the Warframe game), they cited the Account Theft Attempt IP Blacklist, then later the eBay Seller Blacklist.

The most recent accusations with mass-reports utilizing fabricated details in those reports to manipulate the companies that WonderGamer.net runs through (primarily servers that are rented to host the site & domain registration services that keep the domain up every year) are coming primarily from a single individual named rockythedog2 on Steam, who much like the Steam user Revalopod, also started maliciously targeting WonderGamer.net & it's staff through their own personal sites (both of which have been added to the Virus Sites Blacklist & blocked over personal routers so nobody on those networks can access them).

Additionally, the statements that were being made by Steam trolls of their IP addresses being published as a hacker is also false.  Their IP addresses were being banned from the site as it was determined based on access logs they were accessing more of the site than was normal (even being scraped & republished to another site in one case), but their IP addresses were never made public (unless activity was spotted that determined they were attempting to compromise the security of the website, like attempting to access an perceived administrator module or additional web protocols that weren't even on the site).  For an IP address to be added to a blacklist, it needs to actually be confirmed as relevant to that blacklist & we haven't made a decision to start a Steam troll IP blacklist because it's not technically possible to determine which IP addresses are from those trolls (only thing that can be determined is what their actions are based on the site's access log; doxxing the site is perceived by excessive access, but not published when a ban is placed).

There have been some cases where identities are given, but this typically negates any contact information.  If personal information outside of the identity of a person is published (without being censored), it's because that information was already public (usually because we referred to an official document that was already made public online or the individual already made their information public online themselves; sometimes we keep backups of that information should it need to continue be referred to should it later be taken down).  Anything that is published on the site that may tie into an actual person is never published ourselves unless it is already public elsewhere on the internet & a personal identity is never published if uncensored contact data is provided; the exception to this rule is if that information is already public on other official sources online or provided online by the person themselves (such as was the case with the first toxic Twitch streamer we had to publish an article on after they linked a personal Twitter account on their own channel; in that article, we were able to locate where they lived based on the name provided on their Twitter account, a photo of their home was published to show we knew where they lived while preparing the information to be used in a lawsuit against them, but their address was never made public in the article).

These claims that continue to be made are based on false statements & rationalization by individuals that want to further their own agendas or boost their popularity through fraudulent & slanderous statements.  Regardless, based on the allegations, we will be reviewing information on the site to make sure we didn't slip up on publishing additional information when it didn't fall under the terms stated earlier in this addressal to the allegations being made & taking action as necessary.  Note however that IP bans are still being placed in cases where these continued doxxing attacks are misusing the site for their own personal agendas & will continue to be placed through excessive abusive access to the site until the 2-year period from the last Steam attack has expired.  The most recent attack by the Aurora Gladiators clan in Warframe was not considered as a Steam attack however (although it's expected statements by Steam trolls & YouTube misinformation channels are playing a part in their decision), so the timer hasn't reset as of yet, although I expect it will continue to be pushed back & won't reach the 2028 expiration year it's currently at.  Additionally, the contact email still remains disabled due to those attacks lasting for over several months, so appeals to bans won't be an option until the 2-year expiration of heightened alert is reached.

The site is dangerous!

WonderGamer.net does not have malware, viruses or malicious scripts on it, this is just a common accusation that Steam trolls like to make to slander the site’s reputation & deter non-abusive visitors from visiting the site. Only one site scanner in the past has ever flagged WonderGamer.net for a security breach & this was simply because of the word “defaced” in a review that was published. We’ll also note that Norton Safeweb was also flagging us at one point, but this was because the site was mostly unknown until around 2014 (we were able to clear this up after the Webmaster registering the site as it's owner with Norton). Google AI summaries at one point were also claiming that WonderGamer.net may have been compromised, however this was because it was adapting the slander made on Steam (same thread of comments that is being used to organize attacks against WonderGamer.net & it's staff) into their AI summaries.

WonderGamer.net only started to gain recognition in search engines in 2023 after these trolls made it a point to use those search engines in an internet stalking, doxing & mass-harassment effort to locate other profiles owned by the webmaster & target him by filing fraudulent reports against his profiles, as well as continue the direct harassment over those profiles if privacy settings were open enough to do so (this has been confirmed on YouTube, Twitch & Norton Safeweb so far). These efforts to dox the webmaster and continue the harassment across the internet effectively pushed WonderGamer.net to the top of Google search results when searching for “WonderGamer”, so their efforts to try & make WonderGamer.net disappear backfired on them because they inadvertently made it more visible on Google.

One thing to note however is that WonderGamer.net does reference a few other sites & we’ve had to remove some of those references in the past when we deemed them to be dangerous to our visitors. We still use BoingDragon for counters, which we are considering changing out for another service because many of the counter images aren’t properly loading (seems to have something to do with WonderGamer.net being forced to HTTPS, which it wasn’t originally coded for and most browsers today will flag sites as being “Not Secure” when they detect HTTP elements), but still appear to register views of the pages they are on (when the site itself is being accessed & not being run through VPNs, proxies or anonymizers through other domains, as the counters are URL locked & will only function from the site itself). Point being is while we haven’t been able to detect any malware or malicious scripts on BoingDragon, it does look very much abandoned & there’s a possibility it could have been compromised (this is an unconfirmed speculation, however).

Disclaimers:
Quality of this site has been tested in both Firefox, Internet Explorer & Microsoft Edge on the Windows OS & may be best viewed in one of these 3 browsers.
This site has not been fully tested on smart phone or gaming console browsers & may not be optimized for viewing on those browsers.
Some pages will use additional plugins from external sites such as YouTube for embedded video players (embedded videos from Twitch currently broken).
View counters are typically located at the bottom of each page & will require port 9000 TCP to be able to see them,
the counters use URL keys & will not display if you are viewing through an external site.

By viewing this site, you agree not to attempt to compromise it's security,
any attempt to hack the site will result in IP bans (possibly on your entire ISP)
along with your IP/host address being publicly listed on the Hacker IP blackist.

Contact
The contact email has been disabled while the attacks from Steam continue
and Steam staff still refuses to do anything to address it nearly 2.5 years later