Forum on mod page flooded by bots

[Neonsquare]

The FFXII Struggle for Freedom mod has a forum which is currently flooded by bot accounts spamming links. There's about 8 pages of it which started from August.

https://www.nexusmods.com/finalfantasy12/mods/59?tab=forum&BH=5

[Dark0ne]

Thanks for letting us know, and please let us know about any other places you see spam. We're in a never ending fight against these scum.

[Pickysaurus]

I went through it this morning and manually cleared out all the spam on that page. If you see any more please report the post or the account so we can handle it. 

Thanks! 

[Squirrel97]

On 10/3/2024 at 10:03 AM, Pickysaurus said:

I went through it this morning and manually cleared out all the spam on that page. If you see any more please report the post or the account so we can handle it.

Just wanted to let you know that the spam is back. There are currently 17 pages of it.

I did report one of the spam posts. I mentioned in my report that there is "a lot more of it", but it looks like the moderator only deleted the one post that I reported and then closed the report.

Edit: Looks like it is all gone now, thanks. Let's hope those spammers won't return.

Edited January 20 by Squirrel97

[Pickysaurus]

I've just turned off the "Forums" tab on that page. It doesn't look like the author is actively using it so it's just going to keep getting spammed otherwise. 

[Squirrel97]

Now they're posting spam in the comment section instead (I reported it). There are currently two spam posts there.

Edit: It's gone now. There will likely be more of it later though.

Edited January 23 by Squirrel97