RedHeadAngel Posted October 13 Share Posted October 13 I saw this while scrolling through the bans thread. Quote Download abuse. 100k+ mod downloads in very short period of time. How the heck did they do that? Actually, don't tell me. I don't want nor need to know—probably a computer program or some other malarkey. Here's a better question. Why would you need to do that? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlienSlof Posted October 13 Share Posted October 13 It's called 'scraping' and is usually from site owners who steal mods for their pay sites. I don't know much about programming, but maybe there needs to be a download limit imposed to stop this. These unscrupulous thieves are making money from our hard work and we modders get nothing. Speaking as both a modder and a mod user, I would welcome this. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeyYou Posted October 13 Share Posted October 13 5 hours ago, AlienSlof said: It's called 'scraping' and is usually from site owners who steal mods for their pay sites. I don't know much about programming, but maybe there needs to be a download limit imposed to stop this. These unscrupulous thieves are making money from our hard work and we modders get nothing. Speaking as both a modder and a mod user, I would welcome this. I thought there WAS a limit...... Hence, why I only download one file at a time..... Apparently not the case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirCadsimar Posted October 14 Share Posted October 14 (edited) Occasionally I download 2 or 3 mods at a time (usually have to pause the other download(s) so that one of them takes priority and doesn't get slowed down). But one-hundred-freaking-thousand-plus in a short period of time?! That's just absolute insanity! I really don't see the point of that... Some people, dude, holy smokes yikes. Edited October 14 by SirCadsimar two added words for better grammar or something 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zixi Posted October 14 Share Posted October 14 (edited) 18 hours ago, HeyYou said: I only download one file at a time Me too mostly... sometimes I queue them for exactly the same reason I don't queue them - our internet speed is so slow that even a snail could outstrip it. If I'm not planning to sit through the however many minutes/hours/days it takes I queue them but mostly I don't because I'm scared it will get confused and take even longer.* You see I have a different response to the 100k - I think@ Wow - fancy being able to *do* that... *... I blame Graham ( someone I used to work with) who was a networking expert and explained it to me. I've ended up with a strange mental model. Edited October 14 by zixi words, words, words 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeyYou Posted October 14 Share Posted October 14 2 hours ago, zixi said: Me too mostly... sometimes I queue them for exactly the same reason I don't queue them - our internet speed is so slow that even a snail could outstrip it. If I'm not planning to sit through the however many minutes/hours/days it takes I queue them but mostly I don't because I'm scared it will get confused and take even longer.* You see I have a different response to the 100k - I think@ Wow - fancy being able to *do* that... *... I blame Graham ( someone I used to work with) who was a networking expert and explained it to me. I've ended up with a strange mental model. LOLOLOL. Yeah, I hear ya on that one. I would love to have the bandwidth, not to mention storage space..... to get away with that kind of behavior. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zixi Posted October 14 Share Posted October 14 9 minutes ago, HeyYou said: I would love to have the bandwidth We have 2.5 megabits per second... I'm going to do the reverse of what most people do and say my speed is worse than yours - so there! Anyway... what was going on the other day when someone was banned for reason: None? Didn't like their haircut? Mods having a bad day? Or how about they've implemented the new banning sword, dual wielded with the ban hammer! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AaronOfMpls Posted October 14 Share Posted October 14 1 hour ago, zixi said: Anyway... what was going on the other day when someone was banned for reason: None? More seriously, Pickysaurus explained this a while back: On 5/13/2024 at 10:26 AM, Pickysaurus said: I have looked into this. It's actually just a quirk of the system. These accounts were spammers these bans aren't meant to even generate a thread. So likely a spammer whose shadow ban was less shadowy than intended. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pickysaurus Posted October 14 Share Posted October 14 Yep, that was a spammer. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zixi Posted October 14 Share Posted October 14 33 minutes ago, Pickysaurus said: Yep, that was a spammer. Phew - that's a relief. I thought the next one might be: Zixi - reason None... or aka for putting ideas in Demorphic's head... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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