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Spammer reposted ALL messages in the mod discussion area

Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2018 5:24 am
by sensenmann
Someone named "ch1naa" took all public threads,and reposted EVERY message available as a comment. I feel like this should not be possible. URL to mod: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/alien-module/discussion

Re: Spammer reposted ALL messages in the mod discussion area

Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2018 8:44 am
by Samuel2507
I got the same problem
It would be nice if we could delete postings on the mod portal discussions, atm you can only delete the whole discussion which is suboptimal since he replied to everything.
A "report" function or banning certain users out of your mod portal discussion could be helpful aswell.

Re: Spammer reposted ALL messages in the mod discussion area

Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2018 8:45 am
by Sanqui
I'll have it cleaned up today, so hold on.

Re: Spammer reposted ALL messages in the mod discussion area

Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2018 9:05 am
by lovely_santa
Hi,

I'm not sure what happened, is this even a real person who did this? Becose it also replied on my locked threads that couln't get any comments:
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/MoreScien ... 000b545c64

Kind regards,
lovely_santa

Re: Spammer reposted ALL messages in the mod discussion area

Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2018 10:11 am
by orzelek
It looks like a spammer try at botting or someone fooling around.
Every thread on first page of mod had all replies in it posted again as quotes.

Might be someone looking for vulenrabilities also or trying to overload portal.

Re: Spammer reposted ALL messages in the mod discussion area

Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2018 9:50 am
by Sanqui
Somebody was fooling around, with more than just the mod portal. Their attempts have been futile though.

The spam has been dispersed of, any notifications should be gone too. Sorry it wasn't done yesterday, Sunday happened.

Also, only people who own the game are now permitted to post on the Mod portal.

Re: Spammer reposted ALL messages in the mod discussion area

Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2018 10:40 am
by nuhll
Sanqui wrote:Somebody was fooling around, with more than just the mod portal. Their attempts have been futile though.

The spam has been dispersed of, any notifications should be gone too. Sorry it wasn't done yesterday, Sunday happened.

Also, only people who own the game are now permitted to post on the Mod portal.
Give us more infos, i find such things always really itneresting (and many others also)

-what they did, how...