TheVampireDante

Nobody ever said pirates were smart...

They're getting caught in the anti-spam system we have set up due to the recent increase in spam attacks across the various site areas. It's likely due to the videos in the descriptions. I've cleared those two, but I'd expect to see it more often until the spam cuts down.

Page was caught by our anti-spam setup, it catches legit mods at times, unfortunate but can't be avoid at the moment. The page has been released from moderation.

Back then we still had spaces in our usernames, but that guy had to make his without them (since he couldn't get away with copying mine exactly). He'd been banned so often he started trying variations of staff names to goad us (among other stupidity). As for the profile page being gone, just down to the changes in site setup and page links since then. His original ban:

Cyberpunk 2077 (Recently kicked up a Corpo start). Conan:Exiles - still getting used to the recent update. DOOM 2016 - Ya know, just stress relief.

Bit of Caleb.

Here, have a sleepy cat belly to atone for the doom & gloom. (Calypso having one of her usual naps).

Lot of people still just download things without checking, so someone searches for (to take a recent example) - a body mod for one of Cyberpunk 2077's NPCs, Panam. There's been a few spam pages listing themselves as that sort of mod. So people search for it, find the spam page from a google search or something (if the page surived long enough to be indexed) and blindly just download what's on the page then open it up thinking it's safe. That or follow a link on the page and download something from wherever that leads to without checking it's clean, which is equally as short-sighted, and potentially far more harmful to them. Could be disruptive or destructive malware, data scrapers, keyloggers, remote takeover software, ransomware. Could be to gain access to their social media accounts to take them over, or see if there's financial data held on the system they can exploit. Lot of options, just depends on what the spammer wants. To be a nuisnace, or try to widen their net to catch more computers for something (botnets) or simply just some form of extortion from the user(s) who fell for their crap. Still a large amount of "hope someone falls for it" with spam, but the more they try, the higher chance they catch someone unprepared who falls for it. Scumbags being scumbags as usual...

New accounts, mix of bots and user behaviours, spamming in the hopes of the pages being around long enough to get search indexed so people searching for something on the site might get served their spam page. Spammers riding our coattails in the hopes of getting more widespread opportunities.

Got it. Can shoot any staff member a message about those, I know the feedback board's a bit useless on that front.

Yeah. For different reasons and at different times mind you...

Shot down verts always aim at the player if they are within a certain distance. It's designed that way. At base, it's easier to just run when they get close to avoid impact/splash damage.

Not much they can do if they're sticking to the use of their defunct accounts. Could be it's the first time they've came back since before getting booted. Two of them are mine though...

Since it's not a different game, there's no point. AE is just an update so there's no reason to make a 3rd Skyrim section.

That's another matter, those are just idiots. -and yeah, not a fan of the way the feedback board works in that regard. It's quite annoying.

No. Let's just say it's a lot more than you'd think anyway and they bother just about every aspect of the site. Forums, images, mod uploads, articles... Multiple times a day.

That I'm surprised at myself to be honest...

There's a broken, low light bulb somewhere sighing in frustrtion at how dim they are...

You have no idea....