Please do not Comment on Spam Threads

savagebeasty · October 3, 2014, 11:30am

Wow someone made me laugh on an intertnet forum. has never happened before. Well done sir

anonymous_user_138c2332 · October 3, 2014, 11:33am

The keywords are always the same, I believe EPIC is not filtering the titles…

ChrisTm · October 3, 2014, 11:54am

For me , best solution , 2 conditions => not subscriptions and first thread => Moderator must accept the thread (always Dev & modo here)

Ivey · October 3, 2014, 3:28pm

Hey all - Spam! Its been a fight here, though we have a few new policies heading into place very soon to help curb some of .

For those that haven’t necessarily seen some of the other spam fighting threads, context! - We’ve got some interesting obstacles to overcome on our end, and these aren’t bots, but humans, so we have to pivot a lot when trying to predict their behavior.

More updates soon, I assure you we are working on it!

Thanks for your patience with it all.

Robert_Khalikov · October 4, 2014, 6:02am

Their targeting is amazingly poor. Black magic? Love spells? On the game developers’ forum? You gotta be kidding!

anonymous_user_138c2332 · October 4, 2014, 9:14am

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Hey all - Spam! Its been a fight here, though we have a few new policies heading into place very soon to help curb some of .

For those that haven’t necessarily seen some of the other spam fighting threads, context! - We’ve got some interesting obstacles to overcome on our end, and these aren’t bots, but humans, so we have to pivot a lot when trying to predict their behavior.

More updates soon, I assure you we are working on it!

Thanks for your patience with it all.
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90% of them use the same words in their titles, you must be only filtering the body.

anonymous_user_dede2580 · October 4, 2014, 11:05am

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Their targeting is amazingly poor. Black magic? Love spells? On the game developers’ forum? You gotta be kidding!
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They are not targeting the readers of forum. They’re trying to make their operation be the first thing that shows up in Google searches when confused individuals look for… er… guidance.

anonymous_user_60e3facf1 · October 4, 2014, 2:41pm

there’s an easy solution i think
you can prevent any one from opening a thread if he has least than 25 replies

Jacky · October 4, 2014, 3:23pm

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there’s an easy solution i think
you can prevent any one from opening a thread if he has least than 25 replies
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Imagine how that would have upset you when you started your first thread.

ecosky · October 4, 2014, 4:27pm

I like it when sites require moderation for posts for users who haven’t earned enough reputation. Requiring spammers to make at least a few on-topic posts before they have unmoderated post ability seems like a pretty effective filter.

Mikand79 · October 4, 2014, 8:01pm

When you come here to post first, you are probably not able to answer engine questions, but you rather are riddled with them

anonymous_user_60e3facf1 · October 4, 2014, 8:35pm

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Imagine how that would have upset you when you started your first thread.
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well, you can help ppl with replies
it isn’t a lot 25 replies but for a spammer, every time he’ll have to do that, it’ll be at least anoying for him

anonymous_user_fbc40280 · October 5, 2014, 1:00pm

Unreal Engine forum currently using vbulletin script version 4.2.2 , as you know vbulletin also one of the favourite spammer give their spam with easy, please the moderator or admin contact Vbulletin support to handle situation, as i know there are view tweak to handle bad bad bad spammer,

anonymous_user_64c55f0b · October 5, 2014, 1:21pm

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there’s an easy solution i think
you can prevent any one from opening a thread if he has least than 25 replies
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I know for a fact I would not have started using the engine if were the case.

Cube2222 · October 5, 2014, 2:51pm

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there’s an easy solution i think
you can prevent any one from opening a thread if he has least than 25 replies
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Lovely, and we should start trying to delete all those spam posts in threads… Would be annoying for a lot of people, including the mods, and for the spammers it wouldn’t make a difference at all.

Gildor · October 12, 2014, 8:03pm

Probably you should add some script on member registration form, where you’ll ask: “what is site about”, with possible answers like “sports wearing”, “kitchens” etc, and with “Unreal engine” in the list, at random place. Most people who spamming on forums found targets from search engines, and doesn’t know any details about where they are.

anonymous_user_0df12f74 · October 12, 2014, 8:10pm

I have actually been meaning to mention , whatever you guys at Epic switched on in the past week is working really well! Not sure if the mod’s have it any easier dealing with accounts, but I have not seen any spam for the past few days, it’s great!

Thanks guys!

anonymous_user_dede2580 · October 12, 2014, 9:21pm

Yeah, it really seems to have worked really well. Didn’t want to mention it at all, afraid to jinx it

So, congratulations, whatever you did, it has worked out worked brilliantly.

anonymous_user_138c2332 · October 12, 2014, 9:23pm

Yeah the vash…has moved out and over at Answerhub.

anonymous_user_b9532c9a · October 29, 2014, 5:31pm

Hi ,

I’m happy to hear that you guys like the changes, we are looking at implementing some additional security measures on the answerhub as well, though it requires something a little different so I do not have a timeframe on when that will be implemented. We are doing what we can to stem the tide in the meantime!