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Aturuxo: Fallout forum under heavy barrage, multiple pages full and more coming in as we speak.

Does that script work on Chrome? How? (Please excuse my ignorance in this matters).
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toxicTom: It's intended for a "bookmarklet".
1. Make your bookmarks bar visible.
2. Create a new Bookmark
3. Enter a name and instead of an URL the code (beginning with javascript:)
4. Open the FO subforum (or TW2, BG, NWN, M&M...) and click the bookmarlet to run the script.

Scripts:
http://pastebin.com/5igxmQ6v - This one will allow you to select spam threads and mark them.
http://pastebin.com/FwajrBme- This one will preselect all threads on the current page. Careful! Be sure to deselect all legit threads before hitting that spam button!

I recommend using Firefox, since every single spam report creates an alert window. Those block Chrome, but FF allows to work on (i.e. hit F5 or CTRL-R). Haven't tested in Chrome this time, it's too unwieldy due to the alert-problem. But should work in principle.
This will be even more amazing than your previous tool. Time to go try these puppies out...

Edit: ooo, me like! I also liked how the page went dark when the popups showed up, then slowly lightened as I started closing the "Thanks!" popups.

How bad is it that I'm a little sad that we've already managed to sap the full pages of spam? There wasn't any reason to test out the "Pre-mark page as spam" bookmarklet. Oh well. I'm sure I'll get a chance soon enough.
Post edited February 03, 2015 by Bookwyrm627
This is getting ridiculous.
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toxicTom: It's intended for a "bookmarklet".
1. Make your bookmarks bar visible.
2. Create a new Bookmark
3. Enter a name and instead of an URL the code (beginning with javascript:)
4. Open the FO subforum (or TW2, BG, NWN, M&M...) and click the bookmarlet to run the script.

Scripts:
http://pastebin.com/5igxmQ6v - This one will allow you to select spam threads and mark them.
http://pastebin.com/FwajrBme- This one will preselect all threads on the current page. Careful! Be sure to deselect all legit threads before hitting that spam button!

I recommend using Firefox, since every single spam report creates an alert window. Those block Chrome, but FF allows to work on (i.e. hit F5 or CTRL-R). Haven't tested in Chrome this time, it's too unwieldy due to the alert-problem. But should work in principle.
I really hope that GOG not only shows their appreciation for the solutions you've provided, but also take some notes on how to act quickly to address a problem of such proportions.

Thank you for caring more about the community and your fellow GOGgers that do the dirty job than GOG seems to.
Wrote another mail to support to let them know that it's getting annoying. Got an answer within minutes:

"Hello, thank you for reporting this. We are aware of the Korean spam and are currently working on getting rid of it. I apologise for the inconvenience."

Hope they are really working on it and this drama will be over soon. How hard can it be to fix it? *sigh*
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PaterAlf: Hope they are really working on it and this drama will be over soon. How hard can it be to fix it? *sigh*
Without breaking the rest of the site apart? Care to make a guess?
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PaterAlf: Got an answer within minutes:

"Hello, thank you for reporting this. We are aware of the Korean spam and are currently working on getting rid of it. I apologise for the inconvenience."
Can you say 'canned answer'?
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Bookwyrm627: How bad is it that I'm a little sad that we've already managed to sap the full pages of spam? There wasn't any reason to test out the "Pre-mark page as spam" bookmarklet. Oh well. I'm sure I'll get a chance soon enough.
Maybe tomorrow. This morning there were 19 full pages of spam in TW2...
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toxicTom: It's intended for a "bookmarklet".
1. Make your bookmarks bar visible.
2. Create a new Bookmark
3. Enter a name and instead of an URL the code (beginning with javascript:)
4. Open the FO subforum (or TW2, BG, NWN, M&M...) and click the bookmarlet to run the script.

Scripts:
http://pastebin.com/5igxmQ6v - This one will allow you to select spam threads and mark them.
http://pastebin.com/FwajrBme- This one will preselect all threads on the current page. Careful! Be sure to deselect all legit threads before hitting that spam button!

I recommend using Firefox, since every single spam report creates an alert window. Those block Chrome, but FF allows to work on (i.e. hit F5 or CTRL-R). Haven't tested in Chrome this time, it's too unwieldy due to the alert-problem. But should work in principle.
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Bookwyrm627: This will be even more amazing than your previous tool. Time to go try these puppies out...

Edit: ooo, me like! I also liked how the page went dark when the popups showed up, then slowly lightened as I started closing the "Thanks!" popups.

How bad is it that I'm a little sad that we've already managed to sap the full pages of spam? There wasn't any reason to test out the "Pre-mark page as spam" bookmarklet. Oh well. I'm sure I'll get a chance soon enough.
Fallout forum could use a push, just tested Tom's script there myself but the threads haven't gone yet.
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toxicTom: It's intended for a "bookmarklet".
1. Make your bookmarks bar visible.
2. Create a new Bookmark
3. Enter a name and instead of an URL the code (beginning with javascript:)
4. Open the FO subforum (or TW2, BG, NWN, M&M...) and click the bookmarlet to run the script.

Scripts:
http://pastebin.com/5igxmQ6v - This one will allow you to select spam threads and mark them.
http://pastebin.com/FwajrBme- This one will preselect all threads on the current page. Careful! Be sure to deselect all legit threads before hitting that spam button!

I recommend using Firefox, since every single spam report creates an alert window. Those block Chrome, but FF allows to work on (i.e. hit F5 or CTRL-R). Haven't tested in Chrome this time, it's too unwieldy due to the alert-problem. But should work in principle.
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HypersomniacLive: I really hope that GOG not only shows their appreciation for the solutions you've provided, but also take some notes on how to act quickly to address a problem of such proportions.

Thank you for caring more about the community and your fellow GOGgers that do the dirty job than GOG seems to.
Definitely, toxicTom should be rewarded by GOG somehow for those scripts! They saved me a lot of nerves!

p.s. as these scripts are quite dangerous tools in the hands of stupid puberty kids - can they be improved that they only allow to check subforums with titles containing non-english characters? I'm unfortunately very bad in programming...
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Grargar: Without breaking the rest of the site apart? Care to make a guess?
Sorry, I forgot it's GOG we're talking about.
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adaliabooks: Fallout forum could use a push, just tested Tom's script there myself but the threads haven't gone yet.
All of these need attention:

Baldur's Gate
Fallout
Might & Magic
Neverwinter Nights
The Witcher 2

Currently, BG and TW2 are worst affected.
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adaliabooks: Fallout forum could use a push, just tested Tom's script there myself but the threads haven't gone yet.
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Hickory: All of these need attention:

Baldur's Gate
Fallout
Might & Magic
Neverwinter Nights
The Witcher 2

Currently, BG and TW2 are worst affected.
On it :)
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phaolo: Isn't it an useless SEO, if nobody clicks on those links?

Also.. wow, you quoted post 13 from post 1423 XD
Yeah my bad, I did not notice it opened the first page :D

Even website mentions count a little towards the ranking, and since you can buy these kind of spam offensives for 5$, many newbies try it.
good morning, nice Tom, thanks.
Sorry about TW2, they were coming in faster than i could open and mark last night before bed.
Bots have avatars now?

Meanwhile I can't see the avatars in the thread view anywhere.
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