Luckspeare Posted October 3, 2021 Share Posted October 3, 2021 (edited) Someone keeps proposing that the box cover for Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage! for Sony Playstation be changed to a thumbnail of the cover for Creature Shock for Philips CD-i. I'm guessing this person is one of those trolls I've heard about? If so, can these be tracked? Do screenshots help, or what exactly do you need? In case it helps here, providing screenshot. Edited October 3, 2021 by Luckspeare Title changed to reflect that there's no doubt anymore Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luckspeare Posted October 3, 2021 Author Share Posted October 3, 2021 Okay, yeah, it's crystal clear some asshole is spamming dumb submissions to be disruptive. Multiple versions of the cover replacement, as well as recommending deletion or name change. Example below in case it's helpful for isolating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurzih Posted October 3, 2021 Share Posted October 3, 2021 You can contact @Jason Carr and submit him those screenshots - he can ban the trolls and send them back to their caves. Thanks for keeping the metadata a troll-free zone! 👍 Unfortunately and perhaps because of the weather or what's available to eat, these trolls surface time to time to the world of humans. The Internet is a hunting ground for those pathetic cases I'm afraid. We will never get rid of them, but you can report to Jason directly to stop them trying to mess with the database/and fill the moderation queue. I doubt they understand that their actions can be traced in most cases. I do think some of them think this is "funny" activity, hopefully one day they will mature. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted October 3, 2021 Share Posted October 3, 2021 I linked this thread in our moderator discord earlier today, but its still early, and a Sunday where he is, so hopefully he gets to it at some point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedwyr Posted November 18, 2021 Share Posted November 18, 2021 (edited) I just rejected a series of submissions that replaced perfectly good PNG images with JPGs. Same resolution, some file size savings, but visibly worse image quality (like a disc logo that has artifacts even at 1500x resolution which should just not happen). It occurs to me that the submissions might be malicious in the same way these are. It could theoretically be in good faith, but this has the feel of someone saving as JPG by moving the quality slider all the way to the left for the lulz. Shall I screenshot if I run across it again? Edit: just to be clear, I'm not frequently in the database. I just try to contribute when I make my own image edits and as the fit takes me. Leave your campsite cleaner and all that. Edited November 18, 2021 by Bedwyr clarification Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryoda Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 Recently there's been alot more trolls just randomly posting / changing nonsense and rejecting sensible additions for seemingly no reason. What's going on? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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