Please tell me this forum aint flooded with Scammers !!

Findme · Post by **Findme** » Wed Jul 01, 2020 5:03 pm

Like LitanyLegendlight, I had PM from moureenmax202 too. Anyway why do they target a small community with less than 1,000 members? Maybe they just spam every forums they could find?

Post by **MPG Annihilator** » Thu Jul 02, 2020 10:16 pm

Got rid of him last night. They are getting smarter, and not pming the keymasters or moderators, so please just PM me and MSG if more come up

spoilerspree · Post by **spoilerspree** » Fri Jul 03, 2020 8:45 pm

Cant you make pming require certain amount of post ?

Post by **jesusalva** » Sat Jul 04, 2020 9:34 am

@mpg-annihilator @msg-commander https://www.rpginsanity.com/reviews/fir ... -i-played/ Flooded with 1554 spam messages. Seems to have gotten external nofollow ugc* rel to the links, though, which is a good thing.

I believe moderators (azyleo and mastertrek) cannot delete comments there.

Remember that spam attracts spam. Spammers doesn't go out looking blindly for forums in Google, they need somewhere to start. Looking other spam messages is usually a good sign of poorly moderated forums, victims in potential.

That's why you should actively seek & remove spam content from pages. + I cannot see if there was anything noteworthy in the reviews for Revenant Saga.

* ugc: User Generated Content. Another missing but noteworthy rel is noopener which prevents a known phishing attack surface. (While nofollow does the same but for a different attack surface)

Post by **MPG Annihilator** » Sun Jul 05, 2020 11:11 am

Jesusalva, your right in this instance. The only way to get rid of the comments is to click edit, for the person making it, or admins, and send it to spam or trash.

Also, apparently these comments have been coming out for almost a freakin year. The earilest one I found was made july 13th, 2019.

Azyleo, Mastertrek, Jesusalva, and 1oldtimer, please find more of these. I want to have them gone yesterday.

Post by **MSG Commander** » Mon Jul 06, 2020 6:31 am

@jesusalva part of what happens is that we don't get any notification when comments are made on blog posts, so all those spammers have been literally flying under the radar.

(And part of what happens is once something is published on the blog, I don't go back and check it... so...) To be honest though I'm kind of thinking about dropping the blog altogether, but if I do, I would first move all the game reviews into the appropriate forums. I haven't 100% made up my mind yet, but I think that's probably the best thing to do.

1oldtymer · Post by **1oldtymer** » Mon Jul 06, 2020 6:45 am

As far as i can tell, almost nobody reads the reviews in the blog. I do think it would be better to have a "Reviews" page, and if not, then tucking the reviews into a Review topic within the appropriate game forum (as you mention) would be an improvement over the current structure. So yes, drop the blog.

Speaking of people not reading things, if there is an easy way to have the "pages" that are listed in the "Games" section (what you see when you click on the game picture) somehow cross linked or referenced in the Forum topics that would help. I have seen several posts asking questions that are answered in the Games pages, but don't show up in the forums. Of course quite a few posters don't do much browsing the forums in search on an answer before posting a question, so maybe it doesn't matter.

Post by **Mastertrek** » Mon Jul 06, 2020 8:58 am

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Jesusalva, your right in this instance. The only way to get rid of the comments is to click edit, for the person making it, or admins, and send it to spam or trash.

Also, apparently these comments have been coming out for almost a freakin year. The earilest one I found was made july 13th, 2019.

Azyleo, Mastertrek, Jesusalva, and 1oldtimer, please find more of these. I want to have them gone yesterday.

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I admit I didn't check Reviews page for a long time, never thought some bots would Spam there.. I'm sorry for being so blind (now it might be a good time to check literally anything that may contain comments..)

Post by **jesusalva** » Mon Jul 06, 2020 9:05 pm

Compromised Pages in the Blog:

https://www.rpginsanity.com/reviews/fir ... -i-played/

It is doubly-horrible because it allows users to be spam links D:

Other than that,, it seems to be the only compromised page in blog. I've checked all blog pages using the "Previous/Next" buttons at the end of the pages.

Suggestion: Disable the reply feature from blog. Sounds the easiest course of action in short-term, as you don't need to worry in moving stuff around and sane the spambot issue.

PS. First time I googled for sites linking to RPG Insanity. I was amazed.

Post by **jesusalva** » Wed Jul 08, 2020 5:55 pm

And look who is back... Moureen Max from the previous phishing attempt!