I thought that was already enabled? But then again, I never actually had an need for linking to stuff, on here.
All first-time posters do go through the review queue—along with a handful of the initial posts.
Yes, we’re aware and looking to find measures to monitor/catch these “sleepers”, and working to see how we ensure that flag gets applied to edits too.
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Oh, and they’re [replying to each other] https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/minecraft-1-21-31-apk-mediafire-descarga-gratis-2024-para-android/2048823/2?u=scambot45
They’re also doing things like this
I’m pretty sure these two are coming from the same ‘bot’…
Yes, I am your ‘bot’ here. It has nothing to do with APKs, and there is no link you claim to be spam. How ridiculous.
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Yeah, I wouldn’t hold this against them. Yes, I find it weird that there’s some variation of the same topic, or the occasional oddball thread about some code that isn’t native to Unreal Engine. But by far, the biggest outlier that I saw yesterday was people asking about how to do something in Unity.
But I mostly just ignore them on the off-chance that they might be an genuine user.
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Well once i took new (epic staff) moderator to be some bot, he was just too polite and friendly to everybody. 
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Sorry i do not remember nick, and i am locked out from old moderator subforum. 
Can you add this one to the ever-growing list?
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Not even any attempt to hide it…
Anyone else having their posts hidden by staff?
Right now, all I did was try to embed an Youtube vid and a link to Wikipedia and now all my stuff that was posted from 2 years ago is trapped in an moderation queue.
And it’s worth mentioning that they’re literally going after my participation in that DM tutorial, lmao.
Hey there @ScamBot45! I noticed that some may have been caught by some spam reduction measures due to a link also mentioning APK in it. Legitimate posts should be being reinstated. If any legitimate posts didn’t end up reinstated, let me know!
Right now, it’s only this post that has been removed by the staff for linking to an documentation page.
And for some reason I can no longer reply to this thread
No worries, corrected the original issue. The second thread seems to be reply locked to everyone, so you should be cleared up!
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Yeah, I can’t hotlink to YouTube whenever I reply to an topic.
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It’s almost funny how persistent they are, though. But an lot of their posts feels like it was written by AI, just without the random recommendation for an third-party.
Speaking of which, had anymore found out exactly what these “free” games are or is it just an byproduct of the holidays running around?
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@Flak What are the chances we could get another round of fixes / clean up:
The activity has increased dramatically over the last couple of weeks.
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I just literally had a conversation with a new profile, went back to the forum question list, saw one pop up “I’m a new user need help” of the same user, clicked that, and got to a spanish APK advertisement. Not even a page redirect, just literally a bot post edited on the millisecond to become an APK advertisement. what. the. hell. I tried discussing this topic years ago! now the report button doesn’t even let you report things directly. Even less contact with EPIC these days than it used to be. Where are you hiding staff?
AI bot accounts invading the forums - #5 by Roy_Wierer.Seda145
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I just flagged about 10 posts… It’s hard to see the wood from the trees…
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For every 10 you see there was 1000 already blocked and banned. That said, the group from yesterday has been managed.
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