Ah, nothing as relaxing as a little spam-reporting before bed. Thanks, louder_31!
And g'night (and good morning, and good afternoon...) to all the non-spambot GOGgers.

They have apparently more "important" matters to attend to. Like unbundling games

no gog's own client and unbundeling games
are much much more important then updating their web code
squashing spam
fixing the dissapearing games bug
fixing the log in bug


priorities man !

Admins, please ban: louder_31 and yvk1479

No, not again... ^_^U

GOG should add Google Captcha for registration, it's easy for people but hard for bots.

I thought we were done with the spam, at least for a while. ._.

I see the GOG anti-spam measures are still working brilliantly.

Yeah, we're under attack by 2 bots instead of 1,500 bots...

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Holy crap I haven't seen so much spam on here! FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT!

Sorry if someone brought this up already, but can anyone provide something like a script to report spam more efficiently?
Marking every entry by hand from my smartphone might not be the best way to fight a bot (;

There was one made some 2 months or so ago when it was really really bad, but i'm not sure how handy they are, mostly if you are doing by checkboxing appropriate ones or if it's doing whole pages (because we had 20 pages of spam at a time...)

I just had an interesting idea... it may not be a good idea, but it's still an idea...

What if the topic creator gets forwarded an email for every new topic he makes? Naturally emails that are temporary and get cancelled will probably automatically suspend an account until something happens, but then spammers have to deal with that they themselves are getting spammed..

But then the down-side is that GoG ends up sending spam, in huge numbers and might be added to a blacklist...

Although new users having an email pinged to see if it still exists when they create topics would probably help, say they create 5 topics in a day, an email is forced forward notifying them, and perhaps offering game suggestions, while it also doubles as a way to test if the email suddenly is dead. Naturally dead emails (from a new account) should be suspended, firstly to avoid abuse. And of course new topics are hidden until the account is resumed (if ever)

It's just some thoughts... Maybe the GoG staff will incorporate it and we'll start to see spam only make 5 new threads before they disappear... Sorta reminds me of Yahoo's management of spam on chat, where bots jumped all over the place dumping messages and then moving, so if you were there for less than a minute, all your messages just disappeared as well... (Or maybe they disappear once you leave regardless) it's still a thought...


edit: Another thought is attaching a 'spam topic' to the user account. If enough people mark your topic as spam that it goes away, it gets +1, if you get 10 of those, you get suspended and need to contact support to fix it. Not quite the same as outright banning. Of course all other topics you made that are within the last 48 hours go into hidden mode while suspended, this would work great for the system as well... If this gets implemented, the community only concentrates on the oldest 10 which would have the fastest effect.

its still spam city in the french forum

Heavy attack underway in the French forum.