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Posted January 31, 2015
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Hickory: I disagree. Like I said, doing it piecemeal will not help in the slightest. For the past two days the only forums hit to any extent are BG, NWN and TW2. If you want to help, far better to mark those three forums as favourites, and if/when you have time, do all three. Because spam is removed by site code, the more people on it the better.
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Maxvorstadt: Okay, Baldurs Gate, Neverwinter Nights and Two Worlds 2 will be favoritized!
Thank you. :)
Posted January 31, 2015
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Hickory: I disagree. Like I said, doing it piecemeal will not help in the slightest. For the past two days the only forums hit to any extent are BG, NWN and TW2. If you want to help, far better to mark those three forums as favourites, and if/when you have time, do all three. Because spam is removed by site code, the more people on it the better.
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Maxvorstadt: Okay, Baldurs Gate, Neverwinter Nights and Two Worlds 2 will be favoritized!
The Witcher 2, not Two Worlds 2. Also, the Might and Magic forum took a good bit of flak yesterday. Fallout did to a lesser extent, but those two have been mostly quiet today.


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toxicTom: It's a bot, just look at the generated names. There have been different bots at work, the one that swamped TW2 created several threads a minute with the same username.

The currently working bot creates a new user every 1-2 minutes and makes one post in each target forum (currently NWN, BG and TW2), then it makes another user. That's why it's a lot slower than the thing from yesterday and the day before where it was posting faster than we could delete them.

As I said before - there seems to be some human interaction involved, since a few of the spam waves started with a single post containing only garbage (tttt) obviously for testing. That's why I don't get what the spammers are trying achieve here.
I figured the variable length messages (including blank messages), the test posts, the relatively slow speed of creation (sometimes), and the way the spam shows up mostly around the same time during the day implied a few humans on the other end. I can only guess wildly about possible reasons for the spamming: 1) someone wants to attract traffic to a site(s), 2) someone wants to increase (or decrease) the search result listing of a site, 3) someone is really, REALLY bored, 4) someone wants to take a bot on a test run. I don't see any reason for this to target GOG in particular (most of the wild guesses I just provided could be applied to any site), because this isn't really doing much except providing some combination of irritation and entertainment to some of our forum users.

I can't truthfully say I'm overly attached to this theory, but it made sense to me.

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toxicTom: And btw. the latest spam accounts claim to be from the UK.
Maybe they are trying to get the UK known for having a large Korean speaking language? :D
Post edited February 01, 2015 by Bookwyrm627
Posted February 01, 2015
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Bookwyrm627:
you missed out SKYNET
Posted February 01, 2015
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Bookwyrm627:
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Sachys: you missed out SKYNET
Surely you mean SPAMNET :(
Posted February 01, 2015
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Sachys: you missed out SKYNET
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Pangaea666: Surely you mean SPAMNET :(
same thing - killer machines with a terribly over acted austrian accent are going to take over the world and wipe out humanity through sales of pharmecuticals, dodgy porn and fake lottery winnings.

WAIT!

I set my time machine wrong - this is meant to be 1995! I HAVE TO WARN THEM! O______o~

dont drink and quantum-drive kids!
Post edited February 01, 2015 by Sachys
Posted February 01, 2015
Just got out of bed and only a single "yupd" (that's the bot that created most of the 16 pages of spam) thread (now gone, hehe) in TW2?
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Sachys: same thing - killer machines with a terribly over acted Korean accent are going to take over the world and wipe out humanity through sales of pharmecuticals, dodgy porn and grindy FTP browser games.
ftfy.
Post edited February 01, 2015 by toxicTom
Posted February 01, 2015
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toxicTom: Just got out of bed and only a single "yupd" (that's the bot that created most of the 16 pages of spam) thread (now gone, hehe) in TW2?
I was just marking some threads as spam there and was wondering why there disapeared some threads without my help Now I know why! : -)
Posted February 01, 2015
Korean bots/humans back from their sleep now... damn :(

W2 forum filled to the rafters with spam. Look out Monty Python, you have a challenger!!
Posted February 01, 2015
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Pangaea666: Korean bots/humans back from their sleep now... damn :(

W2 forum filled to the rafters with spam. Look out Monty Python, you have a challenger!!
Heading there now...
Posted February 01, 2015
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Pangaea666: Korean bots/humans back from their sleep now... damn :(

W2 forum filled to the rafters with spam. Look out Monty Python, you have a challenger!!
Well, I'm out of this tonight - I got a wife that needs some attention too ;-)
Posted February 01, 2015
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Pangaea666: Korean bots/humans back from their sleep now... damn :(

W2 forum filled to the rafters with spam. Look out Monty Python, you have a challenger!!
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toxicTom: Well, I'm out of this tonight - I got a wife that needs some attention too ;-)
Yet here you are... ;)
Posted February 01, 2015
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Pangaea666: Korean bots/humans back from their sleep now... damn :(

W2 forum filled to the rafters with spam. Look out Monty Python, you have a challenger!!
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toxicTom: Well, I'm out of this tonight - I got a wife that needs some attention too ;-)
Don't worry, we got this!
Posted February 01, 2015
I marked 3 complete pages in TW 2 forum as spam and my trigger finger hurts. I hope that the spammers won`t come back today.
Post edited February 01, 2015 by Maxvorstadt
Posted February 01, 2015
Well, I gave a free +1 to every post on (my) page 62 of this thread. A mis-click showed me that the script will downvote every post on the active page.
Posted February 01, 2015
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Maxvorstadt: I marked 3 complete pages in TW 2 forum as spam and my trigger finger hurts. I hope that the spammers won`t come back today.
+1 for you.
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Bookwyrm627: Well, I gave a free +1 to every post on (my) page 62 of this thread. A mis-click showed me that the script will downvote every post on the active page.
Really? That was entirely unintended. Got to give it some thought as soon as I have time. Off to bed now.
Post edited February 01, 2015 by toxicTom
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