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Post Date: 2018-08-15
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    Posted: 15 Aug 2018 at 12:38am
Sorry folks... the PC Gaming forum has over 2000 spam messages that I can only remove one-by-one... so it's going to take awhile.

I'll try to reach out to Alex & Co to see if they have a way to hide by user, because I don't.

6 users, all with 400~ messages each all joined yesterday.

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I just tried counting them all, but the pages maxed out at 46 pages.   Wow.   

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There is at least 57 pages....
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Posts: 20391 		  Quote bprat22 Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 15 Aug 2018 at 2:29am
Hopefully Alex can delete by pages or member. This could turn into a full time “job”.

Good luck.
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Ugggh - ugggggly. I wonder what triggered this all of a sudden...
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Posts: 9462 		  Quote Snaike Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 15 Aug 2018 at 9:15am
I've got all 6 accounts to under 300 each... please bear with us..
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We had no choice but to do a mass delete in PC Gaming. Sorry guys. We also did an IP range block from the subset (China) that the spammer was using.
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Thanks @Snaike and @Alex you guys rock
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Posts: 7331 		  Quote Cretae Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 15 Aug 2018 at 5:43pm
Originally posted by JohnWJ

Thanks @Snaike and @Alex you guys rock


+1

Way to go, guys. Thanks for taking the bullet, Snaike!
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Another day of hits. Not anywhere near as bad but still.

Nice job Snaike.    
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Cut this one off as he was posting... it makes it easier.
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and ... again... 4 new members, but this time they were cut off...
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Can you delete their account to stop them ?

This keeps up, Alex will have to pay you.   
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Posts: 9462 		  Quote Snaike Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 16 Aug 2018 at 4:06am
I cannot delete account but I can mark them as suspended so they can't post from the account anymore... and one or two other tools, but it's all going forward.. going back to undo is time consuming.

Alex doesn't have to pay me... just set aside a new Spark for me when they arrive. I've given up hope on my Aventum 3 dreams for now. They won't even have to ship it, I can take the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) to the shop and pick it up in person.   

Edited by Snaike - 16 Aug 2018 at 4:24am
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New Spark would be sweeeeet.

Wish they’d launch new cases for us to drool over.   
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As long as its green, I bet. Awesome

Big%20Smile
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Posts: 9462 		  Quote Snaike Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 16 Aug 2018 at 6:38am
Originally posted by hoserator

As long as its green, I bet. Awesome
Big%20Smile

Normally you'd win that bet... but really, any color will do... even pink. The Spark is so small that it won't dominate whatever surface it's on.   
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Originally posted by Snaike

Alex doesn't have to pay me... just set aside a new Spark for me when they arrive. I've given up hope on my Aventum 3 dreams for now. They won't even have to ship it, I can take the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) to the shop and pick it up in person.   

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Posts: 244 		  Quote shot Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 17 Aug 2018 at 1:28am
Originally posted by Alex

We had no choice but to do a mass delete in PC Gaming. Sorry guys. We also did an IP range block from the subset (China) that the spammer was using.


I feel confident it was Russian bots. I saw it on CNN!
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And all the spam were on Chinese language 
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And they are back.
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Posts: 9462 		  Quote Snaike Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 17 Aug 2018 at 6:01am
Originally posted by Nomad1970

And they are back.
Yea.. I got it. Less than 100 is easy.   
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You da MAN!
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BASTARD'S



Edited by FR3SHM3AT - 25 Aug 2018 at 2:32pm
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Another attack today in general discussion forum, this one seems easier to handle, sigh, what do they gain, that message don't even add anything to their website
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I signed in just now and looked at the general discussion section and was like wth? I don't even understand what is the point in people doing that type of thing. It's so annoying.
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Posts: 494 		  Quote FR3SHM3AT Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 06 Sep 2018 at 12:32pm
Once again let me start off by apologizing if infact these jerks came here because of me.
I get accused a lot of hacking, and cheating
[ Blame Your Craftsmanship ].
Some folks take things too far, still not totally convinced but Photo 2 starting to lead me in that direction.


Below taken from website before you deleted

1st Spammer




2nd Spammer ~Difference 3rd word 1st line~




location 1




location 2




Suspect 1




Suspect 2




Using to try to hide




not sure how this one fits in maybe #3




I'm sure your on it ..


Damn You And The PC's You Build
Just Too Powerful




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Edited by FR3SHM3AT - 06 Sep 2018 at 12:35pm
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LOLLOLLOL

LOLLOLAwesome
Give 'em hell. Ninja



Edit:
all emoticons were missing...


Edited by hoserator - 06 Sep 2018 at 1:47pm
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