Basement Dwellers

[Seastar]

i feel like it's a tbt clone

It seems to just be a bot account that happens to be using TBT for whatever reason. I saw other posts that felt more like news articles. I even saw a few in Spanish.

 

[Ananas Dragon]

It seems to just be a bot account that happens to be using TBT for whatever reason. I saw other posts that felt more like news articles. I even saw a few in Spanish.

i can read spanish if you wanna know deets

 

[frogslime]

https://www.igamesnews.com/nintendo/chicken-police-paint-it-red-review-switch-eshop/

Chicken Police - Paint it RED! Review (Switch eShop) - Inverse Zone

Captured on Nintendo Switch (Docked) Chickens know things. It’s obvious. They have that look in...

inversezone.com

I think the bot just copied the whole article in a different area
So weird
Is it to make it look like there's activity on the site?

 

[Ananas Dragon]

https://www.igamesnews.com/nintendo/chicken-police-paint-it-red-review-switch-eshop/

Chicken Police - Paint it RED! Review (Switch eShop) - Inverse Zone

Captured on Nintendo Switch (Docked) Chickens know things. It’s obvious. They have that look in...

inversezone.com

I think the bot just copied the whole article in a different area
So weird
Is it to make it look like there's activity on the site?

But why restrict us from joining then?

 

[frogslime]

Copying articles is just straight up plagiarism lmao

Post automatically merged: Nov 21, 2020

But why restrict us from joining then?

Yeah, it's sketchy

 

[Seastar]

But why restrict us from joining then?

Could just be a bug on their end. I recently looked at a different forum that also uses XenForo and they had notices up about emails not working.

 

[frogslime]

Seems like the bot can't copy pictures.
Useless observation but eh
I'm gonna try to sign up with a different username

 

[Ananas Dragon]

Seems like the bot can't copy pictures.
Useless observation but eh
I'm gonna try to sign up with a different username

i tried with ametsa izarra

 

[Seastar]

I'd say that the fact it has a bot getting away with these things means there are no mods around to care.

 

[frogslime]

i tried with ametsa izarra

Yeah, I thought "What if they blocked our usernames?"
But that seems like a slight stretch..

Also, I googled iGamesNews and only two Google pages came up with little info on it.

 

[Ananas Dragon]

Yeah, I thought "What if they blocked our usernames?"
But that seems like a slight stretch..

Also, I googled iGamesNews and only two Google pages came up with little info on it.

Hmmm...

Maybe..

 

[frogslime]

I lied, it can copy pictures.

Also, I signed up with a different username and email. Still no confirmation thing. Darn.

 

[Ananas Dragon]

I lied, it can copy pictures.

Also, I signed up with a different username and email. Still no confirmation thing. Darn.

what if once you enter someone's username it doesn't let your ip address sign up

 

[frogslime]

what if once you enter someone's username it doesn't let your ip address sign up

Yeah, I wondered that too. Dunno why they'd do that, though. I'll try from incognito, then.

 

[Ananas Dragon]

ignore the ooc thread

 

[MapleSilver]

Just to clarify, incognito mode doesn't hide your IP address. Seems weird they'd go to that amount of trouble to prevent someone from signing up though.

 

[Ananas Dragon]

Just to clarify, incognito mode doesn't hide your IP address. Seems weird they'd go to that amount of trouble to prevent someone from signing up though.

true ig

 

[frogslime]

Just to clarify, incognito mode doesn't hide your IP address. Seems weird they'd go to that amount of trouble to prevent someone from signing up though.

Ye, I discovered I have a VPN so I enabled that.

Are we looking too far into this? Perhaps, lol.

 

[Ananas Dragon]

Ye, I discovered I have a VPN so I enabled that.

Are we looking too far into this? Perhaps, lol.

we must find out the truth behind these impostors

 

[Seastar]

we must find out the truth behind these impostors

I'm pretty sure it's just... they are bots. At least they aren't as weird as some forum bots I've seen in the past...