At 12/19/18 01:46 PM, sekru wrote:At 12/16/18 05:26 AM, sekru wrote: There's someone spamming game portal with these default asset games with nothing of value in them. All of them are uploaded by a different account made the exact same day. All of them use the same basic level, with same character, and spikes.Is it just me or is the game portal getting constatly spammed by these Construct3-made default platformers made by freshly made accounts?
They all have names like Chupakabrik, Alan Korn, Chupakabrik adventure etc. These are pretty much the most worst type of spam.
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/722433
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/722434
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/722435
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/722436
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/722437
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/722441
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/722442
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/722443
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/722440
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/722439
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/722438
Yeah, there's an insane amount of them.
They all have the same placeholder graphics, same gameplay and nothing of value in them. They are just empty rooms with some spikes in them.
I found 11 of them a while back, and there's 4 of them there again. I also saw some others a couple of days ago but didn't mention them here. What's going on?
//www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/722716
//www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/722706
//www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/722718
The last one at least has had it's sprites changed to mario. Having mario sprites in your game is banned though.
//www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/722698
And 2 more
They just keep popping up.
At 12/20/18 06:03 AM, doublesurd wrote: UJ just got bombed with even more of those blue fez default asset construct 2 games.
//www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/722784
//www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/722782
//www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/722787
//www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/722785
//www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/722786
//www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/722786
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/722789 (i'm assuming this is one, it doesn't even load though)
//www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/722790
//www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/722792
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/722793 (doesn't load either)
//www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/722791
//www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/722794
//www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/722795
These were all posted within the span of fifteen minutes, what the hell is happening?
another one:
There is definitely something going on here.
At 12/20/18 06:03 AM, doublesurd wrote: UJ just got bombed with even more of those blue fez default asset construct 2 games.
//www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/722784
//www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/722782
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/722789 (i'm assuming this is one, it doesn't even load though)
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/722793 (doesn't load either)
//www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/722794
These were all posted within the span of fifteen minutes, what the hell is happening?
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/722794 I don't know if you got this one, it was most recent. Something is not right here, maybe it's a bunch of trollers or something.
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At 12/20/18 07:32 AM, doublesurd wrote: These have been popping up constantly for the past few days. How aware are the mods about this issue?
Tom is aware since yesterday.
Flag stolen content, don't be a dingus.
Not an animation, literally just some dude filming himself with a video camera.
At 12/20/18 09:35 AM, sekru wrote: Not an animation, literally just some dude filming himself with a video camera.
//www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/722803
Something tells me that might be allowed.
At 12/20/18 12:49 PM, Fro wrote:At 12/20/18 09:35 AM, sekru wrote: Not an animation, literally just some dude filming himself with a video camera.Something tells me that might be allowed.
//www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/722803
Sorry about a pointless post then.
I guess I need to read the rules again.
At 12/20/18 01:09 PM, sekru wrote: Sorry about a pointless post then.
Not at all. Thank you for the report. :)
Try the link again.
At 12/20/18 01:37 PM, Exedor wrote:At 12/20/18 01:09 PM, sekru wrote: Sorry about a pointless post then.Not at all. Thank you for the report. :)
Try the link again.
I think I'm slightly blind. Can you show me what rule it breaks?
https://www.newgrounds.com/wiki/help-information/terms-of-use/game-and-movie-guidelines
It was bad quality and would have been removed naturally by the voting process.
At 12/20/18 02:09 PM, Fro wrote: I think I'm slightly blind. Can you show me what rule it breaks?
Certainly. After work, tho. I'm late. :(
It would have been removed naturally by the voting process.
Not necessarily. :\
This one's just an AMV with footage from various shows with no original animation whatsoever. It also uses a copyrighted song: Ignored by I.O.N
This one uses copyrighted music: American Idiot by Green day
At 12/21/18 03:46 AM, sekru wrote: This one's just an AMV with footage from various shows with no original animation whatsoever.
This one uses copyrighted music: American Idiot by Green day
Both taken down.
So are we reporting these or just waiting for them to be blammed?
At 12/21/18 11:23 AM, GUTHRIE wrote: So are we reporting these or just waiting for them to be blammed?
//www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/722899
Feel free to report them, they will get taken care of one way or another. This one left us already.
At 12/21/18 11:32 AM, Asandir wrote:At 12/21/18 11:23 AM, GUTHRIE wrote: So are we reporting these or just waiting for them to be blammed?Feel free to report them, they will get taken care of one way or another. This one left us already.
//www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/722899
I have to ask: Do we know where all these submissions are coming from? Is this an intentional effort by someone to spam the site or are these just made by dumb kids who got their hands on construct3 and don't know any better?
At 12/21/18 11:38 AM, sekru wrote: I have to ask: Do we know where all these submissions are coming from? Is this an intentional effort by someone to spam the site or are these just made by dumb kids who got their hands on construct3 and don't know any better?
This one is titled "Homework"
I know a few years ago a group of (I think) Polish schoolkids all submitted their homework programming projects to the portal over the course of a few days. That could also be why we're seeing a bunch of stupid Fez ripoffs right now.
There's also this possibly stolen game:
Original is here - https://www.defold.com/community/projects/123348/
It could very well be the original author, though. Worth checking out.
Just recorded gameplay footage of a game the creator uploaded on the game portal.
An ad with no interactivity for a game that has to be downloaded separately on the uploader's site.
At 12/21/18 03:43 PM, sekru wrote: Just recorded gameplay footage of a game the creator uploaded on the game portal.
//www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/722918
Wow, I never saw someone do this before. Technically it's his own submission that he's recorded, but that's definitely something better to record, post to youtube, and add to a userpage instead of submitting to the portal.
Just gameplay footage of a game the author made themselves.
They even say in the description that they made it in game maker.
Kind of bizarre that they would upload gameplay footage of it instead of actually uploading the game here.
Another one of these Chupakabrik games. Just as low-effort as the others. Decided to report it just to be safe.
It looks like the portal is getting spammed with the Blue Fez Construct games once again.
At 12/20/18 07:35 AM, Peregrinus wrote:At 12/20/18 07:32 AM, doublesurd wrote: These have been popping up constantly for the past few days. How aware are the mods about this issue?Tom is aware since yesterday.
Do we blam on sight then?
At 12/22/18 07:56 PM, solitonmedic wrote: Do we blam on sight then?
I'm going to continue avoiding telling people how they should vote, but to quote @Exedor: "v0te appr0priately, however you desire"
Flag stolen content, don't be a dingus.
At 12/22/18 08:37 PM, Peregrinus wrote:At 12/22/18 07:56 PM, solitonmedic wrote: Do we blam on sight then?I'm going to continue avoiding telling people how they should vote, but to quote @Exedor: "v0te appr0priately, however you desire"
I'm a simple man. I see garbage, I vote 0.
At 12/22/18 08:40 PM, GUTHRIE wrote:At 12/22/18 08:37 PM, Peregrinus wrote:I'm a simple man. I see garbage, I vote 0.At 12/22/18 07:56 PM, solitonmedic wrote: Do we blam on sight then?I'm going to continue avoiding telling people how they should vote, but to quote @Exedor: "v0te appr0priately, however you desire"
If only people thought the same... too many questionable stuff gets protected nowadays.
14 more chupakabrik entries just came in.
Skipping the links, just look for the blue thing and gibberish author comments
Flag stolen content, don't be a dingus.
At 12/22/18 10:45 PM, Peregrinus wrote: 14 more chupakabrik entries just came in.
Skipping the links, just look for the blue thing and gibberish author comments
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/723026 Does this count as one?
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At 12/20/18 07:32 AM, doublesurd wrote:At 12/20/18 06:53 AM, ZomAlien wrote:These have been popping up constantly for the past few days. How aware are the mods about this issue?At 12/20/18 06:03 AM, doublesurd wrote: UJ just got bombed with even more of those blue fez default asset construct 2 games.https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/722794 I don't know if you got this one, it was most recent. Something is not right here, maybe it's a bunch of trollers or something.
//www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/722784
//www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/722782
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/722789 (i'm assuming this is one, it doesn't even load though)
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/722793 (doesn't load either)
//www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/722794
These were all posted within the span of fifteen minutes, what the hell is happening?
Atleast UJ is clear for now since all those posts were blammed really quickly.
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/723035 Or this one? Gibberish comments and such.
Just another NG user.
Thanks, @COOLZONE17500 for the cool signature.
At 12/22/18 10:45 PM, Peregrinus wrote: 14 more chupakabrik entries just came in.
Skipping the links, just look for the blue thing and gibberish author comments
At 12/22/18 09:34 PM, doublesurd wrote: If I had to make my own guess as to what's causing these chupakabrik submission bombs, it seems that some of the chupakabrik games in these bombs are labelled as "homework" or "for homework" and some other school related stuff. So my guess is that there's some asshole teacher out there who's making kids do crappy construct 2 games and then telling them to upload them to newgrounds, hence the huge submission bombs and mild differences, as well as the fact that they seem to gradually increase in feature set every time a new chupakabrik bomb hits the portal.
That is essentially what happened, yes. I am aware that these things don't look pretty clogging up the portal but they are allowed by Tom Fulp, since they are not malicious spam. Regardless I thank you all for the reports thus far. Their frequency should go down in a few days I guess, unless submitting homework to Newgrounds becomes the next big thing ;)
