Korean Invasion at GiantBomb (Spam Alert)

Is it just me or the GiantBomb website is being attacked by Korean spammers?

Hope tech support is doing something about this.

I'm sure the moderators are aware.

The site needs some non-American mods cause they're all asleep right now.

Let's hope this issue gets resolved soon.

Non-American mod here. I just woke up and deleted all of the spam.

The engineers are aware and working on a solution. Some changes were recently made to the site's automatic spam filter that has let these slip past, but they're aware and hopefully should have something sorted before too long.

Cheers. Thank you!

Yeah, ive had to flag at least 5 korean threads every time i refresh the front page.

I don't even get this korean spam. Usually the spam here has a bunch of links to some bullshit about "free movies" and whatnot. But most of these are just polls and text, no links.

Well, they're gone for now. Thanks, @mattyftm

They're for horse betting sites. The name of the site is in the text of the post. Written like "Google dot com" in Korean. Koreans like their online gambling, but there are some weird gambling laws around here (I've been in Korea for 13 years now.) It's just an indiscriminate bot that doesn't seem to understand that it's not going to get any takers here.

That screenshot hurts my eyes. People who use the white color scheme are doing it wrong.

Someone needs to tell Glorious Leader that Drew isn't here anymore.

@therealturk: This is South Korea though, aka the one that is pretty fun to visit.

I have flagged about 10 so far last day or so lol.

A question while we're talking about this, do South Koreans still love Starcraft as much as they've done for almost 20 years or have they moved on to another game?

Also fuck spam.

Not the hero we deserved but the hero we needed.

Thanks mods and engineers, you guys/gals are the best!

@sinusoidal: I had no idea there was a dark theme. Thanks!

It's getting annoying to wake up to all this spam.

Starcraft has largely fallen out of favor. These days the PC kids all play Overwatch. Though mobile gaming has basically taken over the gaming market in Korea. More people play Clash Royale here than probably anything else anymore.

Thanks mods!