Spam issue

It seems a lot of places getting hit by this one all over the internet. Forums video sites etc etc, and seems like it's escalating. Time to make some tin foil hats and prepare for the collapse of the internet, and the world as we know it. :p lol

Any news articles about this yet?

8 pages of new spam. Hate to say it but denying new user registration will be the only way to stop this for now.

And there has to be a better solution than captcha, because ATM that ain't workin'.

+1

Also when we report a post and have a certain age in the forums or a license, could it be possible that said post is inside a quarantaine (aka: no one can sees it until someone in the moderation did said it is not a spam)?

I keep report them currently..

Over 20 pages of spam and counting. Honestly this is not normal, even for bots. I wonder if someone has a bone to pick or just is doing this for sh!ts and giggles.

I've seen quite a few sites that have been hit the same way, I doubt it's an action against Scirra.

Gotta love spammers. As least until they get close enough you can strangle them with their mouse cords...

I just cant get what spammers win while making this trouble, is it just for fun or what?

I think they are just wasting good electricity that people in poor countries can use.

please do something about spamming please

popyui i know they are wasting my time with foolishness i cant understand

Maybe they are targeting Scirra purposely. Hope that our sellers account are secure.

Try not to open those thread anyone. Now days malware is spreading just by opening an image or link.

I hope this issue can be adressed in a definitive way soon, because this spamming totally takes away the joy I feel coming to this forum to help others..

I hope this issue can be adressed in a definitive way soon, because this spamming totally takes away the joy I feel coming to this forum to help others..

Same here.

I posted a suggestion the other day which was able to stop this bot network on another site.

But enduring and deleting seems to be to way scirra wants to take this ...

I hope they know this bot network has been running since beginning of this year :\ not looking like it will stop any time soon.

> I hope this issue can be adressed in a definitive way soon, because this spamming totally takes away the joy I feel coming to this forum to help others..

>

Same here.

I posted a suggestion the other day which was able to stop this bot network on another site.

But enduring and deleting seems to be to way scirra wants to take this ...

I hope they know this bot network has been running since beginning of this year :\ not looking like it will stop any time soon.

Agreed!

Sorry for all this, it appears to be human spam as they are circumventing the captcha no problem. They have been circumventing our other spam protection as well effectively.

Forum

I've spent the morning cleaning up all the remaining spam, and improving our spam methods on the forum which should now be even more effective. I can't go into what we do exactly I'm afraid for obvious reasons, but it should be robust going forwards and easy for us to adjust to new attacks.

Tutorials

Working on solving this issue now.

Thanks Tom, nice to have you back. I'm sure you not so happy to have to come back running at full pace lol.

I miss the spam ;}