Game Advertising!!

[Sim]

I would allow the user to keep thinking they are sending messages. Every message that has the url unistreets in it don't send to the receiver. Bit let him think he's sending it. Let him waste his time. ROFLMAO. That's the shit I would do if I had an active game. Blocking or banking the account won't do much good as he will just reregister. 

 

Edit:. @Andrew Washington said this

"everyone receives users advertising on there game, all you had to do was fed them and move on. That’s something that’s always going to happen. ".

Unfortunately, he's right. If unistreets stopped spamming, months later another game is going to start popping ip

Edited May 4, 2020 by Sim

[Magictallguy]

I'm in support of silently blackholing them!

Note: There are multiple ways to get around this, dependent on how restrictive you write your block. Just catch 'em as you go

[Sim]

1 minute ago, Magictallguy said:

I'm in support of silently blackholing them!

Might be a nice mod to release. "The Spam Block Fool"

[Magictallguy]

3 minutes ago, Sim said:

Might be a nice mod to release. "The Spam Block Fool"

The Spam Block Fool

<?php
$blocklist = ['unistreets'];
preg_match_all('#\bhttps?://[^,\s()<>]+(?:\([\w]+\)|([^,[:punct:]\s]|/))#i', $_POST['msg'], $matches);
if (count($matches) > 0 && !empty(array_intersect($matches, $blocklist))) {
  // blackhole it
}

 

[Sim]

1 hour ago, Magictallguy said:

The Spam Block Fool

<?php $blocklist = ['unistreets']; preg_match_all('#\bhttps?://[^,\s()<>]+(?:\([\w]+\)|([^,[:punct:]\s]|/))#i', $_POST['msg'], $matches); if (count($matches) > 0 && !empty(array_intersect($matches, $blocklist))) {   // blackhole it }

<?php
$blocklist = ['unistreets'];
preg_match_all('#\bhttps?://[^,\s()<>]+(?:\([\w]+\)|([^,[:punct:]\s]|/))#i', $_POST['msg'], $matches);
if (count($matches) > 0 && !empty(array_intersect($matches, $blocklist))) {
  // blackhole it
}

 

Send that to someone who doesn't know anything about any code.

Add more sites, and only not send the message to the person he's sending it to. And still show no up in his inbox. 

Everyone always want to take the easy way out. I give you permission (like you need it), to use my mod name. I'll even but it if sold on market place though should be released for free. 

[ags_cs4]

2 hours ago, Magictallguy said:

The Spam Block Fool

<?php $blocklist = ['unistreets']; preg_match_all('#\bhttps?://[^,\s()<>]+(?:\([\w]+\)|([^,[:punct:]\s]|/))#i', $_POST['msg'], $matches); if (count($matches) > 0 && !empty(array_intersect($matches, $blocklist))) {   // blackhole it }

<?php
$blocklist = ['unistreets'];
preg_match_all('#\bhttps?://[^,\s()<>]+(?:\([\w]+\)|([^,[:punct:]\s]|/))#i', $_POST['msg'], $matches);
if (count($matches) > 0 && !empty(array_intersect($matches, $blocklist))) {
  // blackhole it
}

 

yea something like this works the best 👍

[Magictallguy]

8 minutes ago, ags_cs4 said:

yea something like this works the best 👍

Debatable. This is a blacklist for URIs, including various workaround attempts. It is not the be-all-and-end-all of patches

[ags_cs4]

yeah i know but as a simple easy way to block them , with out you doint it manualy,

i like the idea of detecting a blocked link, or word, then execute the ban-hammer.

or you can add them to suspect list then you ban them manualy

[MNG]

I have HIGH faith in my players that they will not join that 2002 knock off ruthless city. @Andrew Washington you and your members are always welcome to spam WC, the WC team will block and continue to have a nice day,

[Sim]

@MNG even though it is possible he does pay a party in it, it's also possible he didn't. Accusing him personally isn't right.

-The MWG Judge!

(Lol/)

Edited May 5, 2020 by Sim

[MNG]

1 hour ago, Sim said:

@MNG even though it is possible he does pay a party in it, it's also possible he didn't. Accusing him personally isn't right.

-The MWG Judge!

(Lol/)

That’s true but theirs factors which why I believe it was him, the first guy knew about MWG (theirs not many players that’s aware of MWG), another was he assume I use a certain engine (once again theirs not many players that’s aware of this) and finally the icing on the cake, my account judge disappears or banned from his site and I never did anything on it besides look around. If I was him I wouldn’t even had notice me. Let’s say maybe that player was a developer which I highly doubt cause out of all my life owning games I never seen a developer go out their way to act childish unless they were being paid and if that’s the case it still falls on the owner cause he/she paid the hit man.

[Magictallguy]

11 hours ago, MNG said:

I have HIGH faith in my players that they will not join that 2002 knock off ruthless city. @Andrew Washington you and your members are always welcome to spam WC, the WC team will block and continue to have a nice day,

How did we go from "OMFGNODON'T" to "meh, wutever, you go right ahead"?

[Dave]

15 hours ago, ags_cs4 said:

@Dave its keep going and who know how they do in PM's

If you can send me the IPs privately I can cross check and take action if necessary. 

@Andrew Washington if ID 259 isn't banned on your game I will be very surprised. 

[AdamHull]

He isn't banned and also got a $25 prize for 2nd highest referrals, I do however belive he is just a player 

[Sim]

Cash referral contest?

[AdamHull]

Yeh

[Sim]

2 hours ago, AdamHull said:

Yeh

I wonder how many referral he got.

@MNG to can always get him back and message all there members and tell them to make there own game and link them to marketplace.

[ags_cs4]

still some ppl have no shame, after being baned befor still coming back to post hir referal

this is why i allways against having referal system in my games, it worked in the old days, but now its becoming spam, with the retarded ppl nowadays.

 

[Sim]

Yo should have done coded a URL blocking

[ags_cs4]

thats the lazy way of doing it, i dont advice to do it , players link to share links in game, youtube, twitter ...

there is a way to stop them just by making database for banned sites or names

its tiring to always keep it updated, but you can add reward for new report like 10 points for each new site report or pr0n site ....

but blocking links all together thats a big failure.

[MNG]

45 minutes ago, ags_cs4 said:

thats the lazy way of doing it, i dont advice to do it , players link to share links in game, youtube, twitter ...

there is a way to stop them just by making database for banned sites or names

its tiring to always keep it updated, but you can add reward for new report like 10 points for each new site report or pr0n site ....

but blocking links all together thats a big failure.

I agree, I always failed going the block url route with mccode but I try using key words, help a little

[URBANZ]

Personally i have always gone with a whitelist as much easier to maintain and you dont have to keep updating it. So you can add main sites like google, facebook, twitter, youtube etc then everything else will be blocked. As new game sites pop up all the time you would have a much larger blacklist and you would be adding more all the time.

[InverTed]

If youre having issues with people advertising on your game, there are multiple ways to at least slow it. Add a time limit between messages, extract info from those messages and lock out any responses that carry website names. Just my opinion, theres plenty that can be done. If you need a hand making that happen, DM me and i can help.

[Dave]

You can also just ban any type of URL for players less than X days old, that way new players will sign up, realize they can't spam, give up and forget 🙂

[InverTed]

See @Dave just takes a little thought and all of this will never happen 😆