Spam in Gallery and Files

[Echo Weaver]

I've been seeing a lot of spam in Files and Member Albums in the Gallery. It's clogging up the Unread Content feed. I attempted to filter my Unread Content feed to exclude Albums and Files, but that didn't seem to have any effect.

I  know devs don't actively read this forum, but does anyone know if it's monitored enough for the spam to be noticed and/or blocked?

[xXx_Ape_xXx]

Uhm where do you see this spam? I must be missing something..

[Echo Weaver]

27 minutes ago, xXx_Ape_xXx said:

Uhm where do you see this spam? I must be missing something..

Here in the Gallery, almost all recent images are by two users: https://www.vintagestory.at/gallery/category/1-member-albums/

Files is similar.

I use the Unread Content link to follow the forum, and recently these repeated image uploads have overwhelmed the actual new content. It's probably not great for file storage. Moreover, my forum at work recently had problems with bad actors uploading images and then using a link to that image in spam, which had the effect of DDoS. I haven't tried linking to images here from outside the forum, so I don't know if they can be abused that way.

Actually, at least one of the uploads contains what looks like stringified javascript, so it might be an attempted injection attack.

Edited November 27, 2024 by Echo Weaver

[Streetwind]

You might well and truly be the only real person on the whole website who actually uses either of these features. I didn't even know they existed, and I've been here for over four and a half years.

[xXx_Ape_xXx]

Wow, as Streetwind said, I didn't know these existed at all 

Sure was some weird content in there, a lot not connected to VS at all it seems 

[Echo Weaver]

Well, I browsed around there and found the "Report" button, which seems like a much more useful way to get dev attention. Hopefully they'll take a look.