Spam on the forums.

JadarStudiosJadarStudios Member Posts: 264
edited November -1 in Working with GS (Mac)
Hey guys, there are three users that are putting spam with links onto this forum. Are their accounts hacked or something?

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  • JadarStudiosJadarStudios Member Posts: 264
    also, the links might get the accounts hacked...
  • David_GryphonsRealmDavid_GryphonsRealm Member Posts: 459
    Man that spam really took over the recent posts spot !! Wow !! It's everywhere !!
  • JadarStudiosJadarStudios Member Posts: 264
    its horrible..
  • JadarStudiosJadarStudios Member Posts: 264
    Theres another one, with a different user this time, DONT CLICK THE LINK, just in case..
  • wormilwormil Member Posts: 127
    I'm actually curious, I might spin up a linux vm to see what happens :D
  • wormilwormil Member Posts: 127
    Wow, there is tons of spam! When I moved to oz, I was shocked, spam is like $4 a can.
  • JadarStudiosJadarStudios Member Posts: 264
    @ RKS so what do they usually do about it?
  • David_GryphonsRealmDavid_GryphonsRealm Member Posts: 459
    This is getting outta hand !!!!!! Lol.
  • SlickZeroSlickZero Houston, TexasMember, Sous Chef Posts: 2,870
    Yeah, this is insane. I never understood why they do this. Nobody is going to click their links and buy their products. And if they are doing it just for placement on Google, it's usually found and deleted before it does them any good.
  • JadarStudiosJadarStudios Member Posts: 264
    Just about every recent post is this spam. This is nuts!
  • tenrdrmertenrdrmer Member, Sous Chef, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 9,934
    Working on right now guys. I really Wish GS would make thier accounts require Email Verification. That would cut it down so much.
  • lildragnlildragn Member Posts: 105
    tenrdrmer... any idea when the new forum software will come into play? It's desperately needed now, not only for this incident, but for proper searching and such.
  • tenrdrmertenrdrmer Member, Sous Chef, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 9,934
    RKS said:
    You have to ban ip and ban user to get them gone for long enough, even can result in closing the forum long enough to delete (not close) the posts.

    Thanks RKS I know what needed.
  • JadarStudiosJadarStudios Member Posts: 264
    agreed
  • Cee3pee0Cee3pee0 Member, PRO Posts: 194
    omg, what a mess! These spammers trashed the place!
  • beefy_clyrobeefy_clyro Member Posts: 5,394
    RKS said:
    No, they just need a couple plugins (spam blocker, (hint hint) signatures, etc. They have a good forum but they need plugins.
    Edit: srry tenrdrmer was talking to Jadar. He asked what should be done, I know sous would know, but Jadar apparently didn't so I answered his question.

    The forum is crap ... hence why they're looking at new forum software currently
  • tenrdrmertenrdrmer Member, Sous Chef, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 9,934
    Man this sucks I just looked and the second page is covered as well I have deleted a ton already. Grr. GS better finally realize why they need email verification on new accounts.
  • SlickZeroSlickZero Houston, TexasMember, Sous Chef Posts: 2,870
    Yeah, it's pretty bad. It almost got to be 3 pages long before you got to it.

    And thanks tenrdrmer, for being on top of it, and deleting those bastages.
  • tenrdrmertenrdrmer Member, Sous Chef, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 9,934
    Well they are all taken care of for the most part. Someone came in deleting threads without banning them so no dice on getting those user accounts banned. But anyway all the spam seems to be goneI got the IP and most users banned. over 15 user accounts all on the same IP.

    Come on GameSalad please will you now setup email verification for GameSalad.com accounts
  • JadarStudiosJadarStudios Member Posts: 264
    thanks tenrdrmer!
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