[PSA] WARNING: DO NOT POST IN OBVIOUS SPAM BOARDS

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#1 gamespot
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Greetings GameSpotters!

Seems like we've come under a bit of a spam attack this morning, but don't worry. We're working on fixing it.

It's very, VERY important that you DO NOT POST IN A THREAD THAT IS VERY CLEARLY SPAM.We're "nuking" these accounts, and should you post in one, your account will get caught in the crossfire (this is a bad thing).

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask. In the meantime, here's a frustrated otter:

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#3 SOedipus
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I've notice an influx of new users lately, which is great. However, I've noticed with several users that they'll create a topic, which seems engage-worthy, but they'll have a link from Youtube or Wikipedia (mostly these two sites) in their post. They don't normally hyperlink it and it's placed in a way that seems like they intentionally hid it. Are we to assume that it's spam and/or advertisement?

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#4 digitaldame
Member since 2006 • 5401 Posts

@SOedipus: That's a great question. Posts that link to YouTube or Wikipedia shouldn't cause our spam filter software to trigger. So feel free to engage.

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#7  Edited By SoNin360
Member since 2008 • 7175 Posts

That sounds like a horrible flaw to whatever is being done to find and ban these accounts. Unless the act of responding to one of those threads itself is a ban-able offense for some reason.

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#8 Sanjayrudrainno
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Thanks For This ! I am also following your all rules.

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#9 JustPlainLucas
Member since 2002 • 80441 Posts

What's a spam board? Is that a board you use to cut your spam?

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#10 Jacanuk
Member since 2011 • 20281 Posts

Nice advice Gamespot Staff.

But you may look at getting a few more mods on GD also, it seems the mods you had are either gone or on half-time :D

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#11 suicidesn0wman
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Why does it take so long for you guys to clean this shit up? I can't remember the last time I looked at the GD forums and didn't see spam. Sometimes the spam is up for 48 hours or more, wtf are you guys doing?

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#12  Edited By blaze420yt
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@JustPlainLucas: thanks for the laugh. :)

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#13  Edited By jennyjacks
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Hi) thanks for the topic!

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#15  Edited By SXSS
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@GameSpot: Im new to this forum but I do read gamespot from time to time, are we allowed to link games from steam? If so I need to know so I can delete a post I made a sec ago about a mmorpg adventure game.

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#17 tomana
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LOL gotta love that Otter. I'll bet they are very,very smart and quite the rascal if you had one for a pet

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#18 CraftBrood
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Spammers (Korean) are back.

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#20  Edited By VikiGreen
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Great theme, but how you decide what is spam?

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#22  Edited By neyucocu
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hello everyone

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#23 tboostton
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hi

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#29  Edited By Redax
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um..oke

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#30 jerem222
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Thanks

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#31 DrDisRespectVEVO
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Wow, what kind of spam is this tho? Are they like asking for your credentials bro?

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#42  Edited By SophieGM
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Need to make a post 3-comment threshold.

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#43  Edited By dindjemak
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true

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#45 inousious
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wow