DO NOT BUMP SPAM

[p1ngpong]

As many regular visitors of the site know we are forever waging a war against spam bots here. We are generally quick to exterminate them and their threads thanks to quick reporting by our members and vigilance by the moderating team and I would like to thank everyone who takes the time to bring spambots to our attention.

However tonight something happened that genuinely made me both angry and disappointed at the same time and also made me question the common sense of some of our most prolific and well known members.

A porn spambot made a thread on the forum with graphic images and links in its opening post. People proceeded to post in this thread not once or twice, but nine times.

So this thread was bumped to the top of the latest discussion tab and given more views nine times with idiotic posts ranging from the usual "reported" to people just thinking they are funny.

Let me make it clear:

DO NOT BUMP OBVIOUS SPAM UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, ESPECIALLY IF IT IS PORNOGRAPHIC!

Just report it!

Thanks.

I am going to take a few hours out to calm down before I take any action if any on the people who bumped that last thread, my immediate reaction being to suspend you all for your stupidity.

 

[DinohScene]

i was warned no auto cooldown been trying for nine months til 1 year after the warn was issued a mod (forgot who) removed it

I've removed it about 3 years ago

Users are free to appeal warns by PMing an active mod and ask for a reduction, it's a relatively unknown or uncommon thing I suppose but I infrequently get PMs from users asking for a warn reduction.

 

[DJPlace]

i was warned a few times and hell i even got a temp ban for a week for saying something wrong. (i was trying to say the source of a game i wanted to know about. and the mod who saw that thought it was a rom/iso link) lucky thing i had a friend on the site who explained what i meant by the source (it was not for the rom/iso.) lucky thing the temp ban was removed. but i need to type and explain more catious. this was years ago BTW.

 

[User154]

On the subject of spam, what is the general consensus on regurgiating Chatgpt responses?

I reported a user the other day because they had made an account and immediately posted a bunch of Chatgpt answers.

To me this is obviously spammy behaviour, but I was really unsure about reporting it. The posts were obviously out of context, and the post I reported was mostly irrelevant junk. However some of the posts did actually contain some useful information.

I just wondered what the official stance on this is as I couldn't find anything in the rules about it. The mods on this forum must already have a hard enough job without me reporting things that don't need to be reported.

 

[Kioku]

On the subject of spam, what is the general consensus on regurgiating Chatgpt responses?

I reported a user the other day because they had made an account and immediately posted a bunch of Chatgpt answers.

To me this is obviously spammy behaviour, but I was really unsure about reporting it. The posts were obviously out of context, and the post I reported was mostly irrelevant junk. However some of the posts did actually contain some useful information.

I just wondered what the official stance on this is as I couldn't find anything in the rules about it. The mods on this forum must already have a hard enough job without me reporting things that don't need to be reported.

If you suspect spam, then report at your discretion. If you report EVERYTHING as spam, then it becomes a problem.

 

[SylverReZ]

@MurraySkull Don't bump spam here, it has been already said that you can get warned if you continue to engage with spam bots.

 

[Localhorst86]

On the subject of spam, what is the general consensus on regurgiating Chatgpt responses?

I reported a user the other day because they had made an account and immediately posted a bunch of Chatgpt answers.

To me this is obviously spammy behaviour, but I was really unsure about reporting it. The posts were obviously out of context, and the post I reported was mostly irrelevant junk. However some of the posts did actually contain some useful information.

I just wondered what the official stance on this is as I couldn't find anything in the rules about it. The mods on this forum must already have a hard enough job without me reporting things that don't need to be reported.

My stance on this is that bots regurgitating ChatGPT responses should be reported as chatGPT bots and removed, it is spammy behaviour. I have reported obvious GPT bots in the past, their profiles and posts were gone a short time later.

Note, that I can't say this is the official stance.

Have you tried googling something in the last 2-3 years? If you did, you would find a metric fuckton of Websites contain vague paragraphs about what you were looking for, but exhausting to read and repetitive on top of being absolutely uninformative. These sites are heavily SEO-ed and burry any reasonable search result under them. Google search has become mostly useless because of those sites.

This is what we would allow GBAtemp to become, if we were to "accept" chatGPT responses on here.

A Forum lives from the interactions of its members - that is the entire purpose of a messaging board. If we were to allow bots to regurgitate responses on here, we would soon have ChatGPT bots talking to other ChatGPT bots only, furthering a dead internet.

 

[User154]

My stance on this is that bots regurgitating ChatGPT responses should be reported as chatGPT bots and removed, it is spammy behaviour. I have reported obvious GPT bots in the past, their profiles and posts were gone a short time later.

Note, that I can't say this is the official stance.

Have you tried googling something in the last 2-3 years? If you did, you would find a metric fuckton of Websites contain vague paragraphs about what you were looking for, but exhausting to read and repetitive on top of being absolutely uninformative. These sites are heavily SEO-ed and burry any reasonable search result under them. Google search has become mostly useless because of those sites.

This is what we would allow GBAtemp to become, if we were to "accept" chatGPT responses on here.

A Forum lives from the interactions of its members - that is the entire purpose of a messaging board. If we were to allow bots to regurgitate responses on here, we would soon have ChatGPT bots talking to other ChatGPT bots only, furthering a dead internet.

This totally mirrors my view on the subject, that was why I reported it. I just don't want to tie up the time of the mods with something I think is an issue if it turns out actually it's totally acceptable here.

 

[Deleted member 194275]

My stance on this is that bots regurgitating ChatGPT responses should be reported as chatGPT bots and removed, it is spammy behaviour. I have reported obvious GPT bots in the past, their profiles and posts were gone a short time later.

Note, that I can't say this is the official stance.

Have you tried googling something in the last 2-3 years? If you did, you would find a metric fuckton of Websites contain vague paragraphs about what you were looking for, but exhausting to read and repetitive on top of being absolutely uninformative. These sites are heavily SEO-ed and burry any reasonable search result under them. Google search has become mostly useless because of those sites.

This is what we would allow GBAtemp to become, if we were to "accept" chatGPT responses on here.

A Forum lives from the interactions of its members - that is the entire purpose of a messaging board. If we were to allow bots to regurgitate responses on here, we would soon have ChatGPT bots talking to other ChatGPT bots only, furthering a dead internet.

I agree with you, but I just can't tell if a response is chat GPT or a person. I don't mess with chat gpt very often, but from the experience I got (on my native language mind you), chat gpt talks like a regular person in a polite manner. How to tell if is a polite person or a robot?

 

[Localhorst86]

I agree with you, but I just can't tell if a response is chat GPT or a person. I don't mess with chat gpt very often, but from the experience I got (on my native language mind you), chat gpt talks like a regular person in a polite manner. How to tell if is a polite person or a robot?

The fact that someone on the internet would talk politely to you should be enough of a red flag.

Jokes aside, there is an uncanny-ness to most ChatGPT responses. They are very broad and generic as they simply lack the context of this message board and it's rather niche/specific character.

One of the posts I reported was actually qouted by a member, so we can still have a look at it:

https://gbatemp.net/threads/why-do-mentioning-consoles-get-hyperlinked.622716/page-3#post-10202943

The post @smileyhead quoted here, was as generic a response to "why does text get hyperlinked" as can be, but it doesn't take the initial question in its context of the forum. Someone who would take their time to write a response as elaborate as that, would be expected to understand the context the question was posted in and craft a response not as general as that.

The user in question had made similar elaborate, but entirely generic responses to other threads as well, so I'll admit that it usually never is an issue that can be fixed on a single response.

If a respond looks iffy, check the users other posts. If they are iffy as well, it's probably a good idea to alert staff to the profile, mentioning that you have concerns a user might be regurgitating ChatGPT responses. My guess is that staff has further tools to verify if a user is legit or not.

 

[User154]

I agree with you, but I just can't tell if a response is chat GPT or a person. I don't mess with chat gpt very often, but from the experience I got (on my native language mind you), chat gpt talks like a regular person in a polite manner. How to tell if is a polite person or a robot?

Chat gpt answers can sometimes be a little out of context when talking about something very specific. The answers usually follow the same sort of structure too

 

[porkiewpyne]

If you feel reasonably suspicious that an account is a bot, please do not hesitate to report them to us. I personally would very much rather deal with multiple reports to weed out the issue as early as possible. As long as the report function isn't being used maliciously, we won't fault you for trying to contribute to the community though. We'll probably let you know if a significant portion of your reports turn out erroneous though.

 

[captain_obvious]

I personally would very much rather deal with multiple reports to weed out the issue as early as possible.

When someone posted spam about call girls in Dubai I made a thread joking about it. A staff member commented in my thread without removing the spam. From that I concluded you're fine with taking your time provided the spam doesn't contain graphic images.

 

[Kioku]

When someone posted spam about call girls in Dubai I made a thread joking about it. A staff member commented in my thread without removing the spam. From that I concluded you're fine with taking your time provided the spam doesn't contain graphic images.

Depends... Probably shouldn't be commenting in something that you know is spam (or is more than obviously spam). Granted, I don't think you'd be punished for doing so. Depends on the severity.

 

[captain_obvious]

Depends... Probably shouldn't be commenting in something that you know is spam (or is more than obviously spam). Granted, I don't think you'd be punished for doing so. Depends on the severity.

I didn't bump the spam thread. I made a new thread without the call girl's number.

Here it is: https://gbatemp.net/threads/what-is-the-penalty-if-youre-caught-with-a-call-girl-in-dubai.638424/

 

[Kioku]

I didn't bump the spam thread. I made a new thread without the call girl's number.

Here it is: https://gbatemp.net/threads/what-is-the-penalty-if-youre-caught-with-a-call-girl-in-dubai.638424/

That's way different...

 

[porkiewpyne]

When someone posted spam about call girls in Dubai I made a thread joking about it. A staff member commented in my thread without removing the spam. From that I concluded you're fine with taking your time provided the spam doesn't contain graphic images.

Then I suppose you've drawn the wrong conclusion. There's a reasonable chance that they didn't see it on the main page and just assumed you were making a joke, given the nature of the EoF. Especially when it isn't reported.

Just report the spam going forward.

 

[SylverReZ]

@dragonmaster Please do not bump spam.

 

[SylverReZ]

Oops, I've responded to spam without knowing that it was, guess I'm going on the naughty list.

 

[SylverReZ]

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[linuxares]

@CoolMe @JuanMena Did you even forget to read the rules on not relying to spam?

It wasn't "spam". It was a spambot... please don't act as a moderator.