Spam on the forums.

JadarStudios

Hey guys, there are three users that are putting spam with links onto this forum. Are their accounts hacked or something?

JadarStudios

also, the links might get the accounts hacked...

David_GryphonsRealm

Man that spam really took over the recent posts spot !! Wow !! It's everywhere !!

JadarStudios

its horrible..

JadarStudios

Theres another one, with a different user this time, DONT CLICK THE LINK, just in case..

wormil

I'm actually curious, I might spin up a linux vm to see what happens

wormil

Wow, there is tons of spam! When I moved to oz, I was shocked, spam is like $4 a can.

JadarStudios

@ RKS so what do they usually do about it?

David_GryphonsRealm

This is getting outta hand !!!!!! Lol.

SlickZero

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.

JadarStudios

Just about every recent post is this spam. This is nuts!

tenrdrmer

Working on right now guys. I really Wish GS would make thier accounts require Email Verification. That would cut it down so much.

lildragn

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.

tenrdrmer

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.

JadarStudios

agreed

Cee3pee0

omg, what a mess! These spammers trashed the place!

beefy_clyro

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

tenrdrmer

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.

SlickZero

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.

tenrdrmer

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

JadarStudios

thanks tenrdrmer!