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"The Incident" and Ideas For Prevention
-Blok-:
If you don't know what "The Incident" was, follow these questions:
1. What exactly happened?
A phishing website was posted on the forums and people have been handing over their account information on accident. A certain user named "Snuffers!" was a victim. Whoever was in control of the account used it to post gore, research, spam, and other inappropriate images. Several topics in the Off-Topic section were terrorized by this mass spamming and several other topics were created that showed more spam and inappropriate images.
2. Who did it?
We know the account name was "Snuffers!", but we don't know who was in control of the account itself.
3. Can this be prevented in the future?
Here are some ideas to prevent this happening in the future:
--- Quote from: -Blok- on April 13, 2013, 12:56:02 PM ---I think a good idea would be if a certain player got x amount of reports in y amount of time, they would be temporarily stopped from posting until an admin takes action.
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--- Quote from: TheLeaderOfTheRebellion on April 13, 2013, 12:58:29 PM ---Maybe a filter to detect if x account is posting a lot of things about y in over z topics in quick sucession, temporarily (5min) stop the account from posting?
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--- Quote from: -Blok- on April 13, 2013, 12:56:02 PM ---Set a limit on how many posts you can make in a certain time period.
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quadilious:
theres a 20 second limit after posting
TheLeaderOfTheRebellion:
Maybe a filter to detect if x account is posting a lot of things about y in over z topics in quick sucession, temporarily (5min) stop the account from posting?
Ipquarx:
That's what badspot is for.
Also this goes in suggestions and requests
Dillpickle:
"Snuffers!" Was a user who apparently got banned, he went around posting intense gore and gay research all over the OT. Then posted like 20 topics regarding "The storm" and just typical spam. Rotondo was the only admin that showed online, but he was still offline at the time of the accident.
Nothing we haven't encountered before, Glass and his outbreak. I'm expecting more of these in the future, really bringing down the moral of the forums.
--- Quote from: Ipquarx on April 13, 2013, 12:59:59 PM ---Also this goes in suggestions and requests
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Hahaha, no it doesn't. S&R is for weapons or addons, this is about Blockland.