Giant Bomb under attack?

I know i'm not as active as I was a year ago (I finally got a life), but I still look in almost every day. 
i've seen a sudden surge of spammers/trolls lately. 
I see people who haven't even been a member for 6 months have over 1500 posts. I see people intentionally post nonsense.
 
I mean we used to have people do this kind of bullcrap maybe once a week. Now it happens multiple times per day. 
 
I would like to make a suggestion, mostly directed toward the people who joined in the past few months, since they haven't had to deal with it as much. Stop posting in bullshit threads.---- Here i'll make it a title in case you don't read this:
 

Stop posting in bullshit threads.

" This thread raises a good point, but honestly it's just contributing to the problem and giving these spammers/trolls even more attention. Was anyone else here last night when someone...

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pornsprayed the forums.

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" This thread raises a good point, but honestly it's just contributing to the problem and giving these spammers/trolls even more attention. Was anyone else here last night when someone...

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pornsprayed the forums.

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yes, i have kind of noticed more spammers coming around.

" This thread raises a good point, but honestly it's just contributing to the problem and giving these spammers/trolls even more attention. Was anyone else here last night when someone...

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pornsprayed the forums.

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Damn kids and their skateboards, rock and roll, and spamage of stupid-ass forum topics!

It happens to every site. As the community grows and gets bigger, it's bound to attract some unwanted members.

  Most people like to be smart-asses on this site, which is putting a real damper on my GB experiences. It kind of makes me want to find another site, just for the forums. I've been looking. Hmph, this community is about as bad as Gamespot, just with different kinds of people. I mean, nobody is allowed to share an opinion or say something negative against a post for a popular game, nooooooo, that would be trolling. Pfft. "

 Inb4lock

I know, man. Someone posted about their dumb podcast...oh wait.

I have a feeling that's going to happen more while most 10 year old kids are on Christmas, Holiday break right now. "

" @ADTR_ZERO: 
@AjayRaz:

   I'm also sorry for acting like a dick in your other thread. that wasn't cool of me :\  "

I, too, apologize. I may have came off as a dick and don't want that to be the case, because I really didn't mean to insult your blog or anything. "

" @ADTR_ZERO: 
@AjayRaz:

   I'm also sorry for acting like a dick in your other thread. that wasn't cool of me :\  "

I, too, apologize. I may have came off as a dick and don't want that to be the case, because I really didn't mean to insult your blog or anything. "

GB used to have the best community in the earlier days :'(

As GBs popularity grows, so will the number of douchebags therein and the amount of douchebaggery that will take place on the forums. Welcome to the wonderful worldwide web.

Quoting people without providing anything or next to anything else annoys me.  Responses like "cool" for a reason that I perceive as a post count builder do too.  What Sunny did or whomever he means (OP) doesn't necessarily bother me.  
 

@Commando:

" I know i'm not as active as I was a year ago (I finally got a life), but I still look in almost every day. 
i've seen a sudden surge of spammers/trolls lately. 
I see people who haven't even been a member for 6 months have over 1500 posts. I see people intentionally post nonsense.
 
I mean we used to have people do this kind of bullcrap maybe once a week. Now it happens multiple times per day. 
 
I would like to make a suggestion, mostly directed toward the people who joined in the past few months, since they haven't had to deal with it as much. Stop posting in bullshit threads.---- Here i'll make it a title in case you don't read this:
 

Stop posting in bullshit threads.

Don't give them the attention they're craving. Just flag it and let it die. Each time you post in their topics, you just bring it back up to the top for more people to read.   I mean it's getting really annoying. A few 13 year old kids come here and post a bunch of bullcrap that they know will piss us off and make us want to discuss it... Don't do it, just ignore it and flag it so a moderator can handle it. I know how bad you want to go in that topic and scream-type at that person, but all that does is make them do it again and again.  So please, can we show a little maturity? I saw one of them being bumped for 30 minutes. People went into the topic, and typed "Tube-Spam" or "Inb4lock". That's exactly what you shouldn't do. Flag it and leave it. Don't bump it. "

The problem is more and more users are gonna come on here and see how far they can push the limits.  Make threads designed to cause arguments over and over, make nonsense threads to see how much can sneak under the mod radar, spam threads with trolling attacks, personal attacks will get more and more nasty.  That is unless the mods generally tighten the rules.
 
I'm kind of amazed at the nastyness I've seen in some threads recently, there are threads I flagged days ago that are nothing but trouble but they still aren't locked.  Threads with no purpose but for users to attack each other and for this community to go to shit.
 
There's a lot of people that don't give a shit about the community, or intentionally mean to destroy it, but there's noone here protecting it 90% of the time!

"As GBs popularity grows, so will the number of douchebags therein and the amount of douchebaggery that will take place on the forums. Welcome to the wonderful worldwide web. "

I don't think GB is under attack, maybe it's just that 2% of people are twats. If the user base grows you'll have more people but also more twats.

I agree about "Inb4lock" type stuff.  If you are not a mod, why say it?  It is redundant.  Not all threads "you" dislike are unworthy, just because"you" don't like the subject  matter. 
Be more like this: 
@ADTR_ZERO said:

" Unlike most people, if I disagree with a thread I try not argue. I just, with all my might, try to put my cursor over the back button and move to another thread.   "

" I agree about "Inb4lock" type stuff.  If you are not a mod, why say it?  It is redundant.  Not all threads "you" dislike are unworthy, just because"you" don't like the subject  matter. 
Be more like this: 
@ADTR_ZERO said:

" Unlike most people, if I disagree with a thread I try not argue. I just, with all my might, try to put my cursor over the back button and move to another thread.   "

Sometimes it is appropriate to make a counter or personal view point, but that should be, "your topic is stupid and you are a moron".  That doesn't add value at all. "

" I don't think GB is under attack, maybe it's just that 2% of people are twats. If the user base grows you'll have more people but also more twats. "

People in general are assholes and people can anonymously be assholes on the internet. 
 
I'm trying to make a habit of flagging threads that I know are spam... it's better than fueling the fire.

It's just part of the cycle of any online community, and sadly it only gets worse from here. Every community starts out small with a few like minded and well behaved people but over time, and through word of mouth, the site gains popularity and with popularity comes the assholes of the world. If your lucky the site will attract more mature people then immature and even it out for awhile so it doesn't seem as bad, but its only a matter of time until giantbomb becomes like gametrailers.com and 1up.com. A hate filled wasteland full of nothing but 10 year olds calling each other fags, n00bs, and fanboys no matter what the conversation is about.  

I have already noticed giantbomb starting to head down this way in the video comments, and slowly the boards have started to get more and more so like this to the point where for the most part i just stopped reading and replying on this site. I just watch the videos and listen to the bombcast and stopped taking part in the community unless it is some snappy one-liner here and there, because its just not worth the effort anymore. Maybe it is because of the lack of things like the endurance run that made me feel as if i had found this secret website that only a few people knew about and that made it feel like something special amongst a sea of generic corperate websites that are only out their to make money for a company, but the site just doesn't feel like a place i want to call home anymore.
 
I know its not as bad as that made it out to be but its just my personal preference, and i have seen the seeds of this kind of thing becoming more common place over the last few months and i just want out before it gets too noticeably bad and have it potentially ruin my enjoyment of the rest of the site. I'm glad the giantbomb crew is getting more popular because it means they will be able to keep doing what it is they are doing and that they will start to get the recognition they deserved to be getting for all the work they have done. It just makes me sad that it has to come at the price of losing the community that i have loved and have had so many great discussions with over the last year or so, and that i need to find another place to call home. Until the cycle repeats itself once more.

" @oldschool said:

" I agree about "Inb4lock" type stuff.  If you are not a mod, why say it?  It is redundant.  Not all threads "you" dislike are unworthy, just because"you" don't like the subject  matter. 
Be more like this: 
@ADTR_ZERO said:

" Unlike most people, if I disagree with a thread I try not argue. I just, with all my might, try to put my cursor over the back button and move to another thread.   "

Sometimes it is appropriate to make a counter or personal view point, but that should be, "your topic is stupid and you are a moron".  That doesn't add value at all. "

If you dont make it very clear to someone that they are a moron for posting something, they arent going to stop posting stupid ass threads. As it was in the beggining for the gb forums. As soon as the modding started to come, there were more idiots than ever posting stupid ass threads. "

It's the internets, what can you do?
 
Also, there are places way worse than here so stop complaining :P

" This thread raises a good point, but honestly it's just contributing to the problem and giving these spammers/trolls even more attention. Was anyone else here last night when someone...

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pornsprayed the forums.

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" It's the internets, what can you do?  Also, there are places way worse than here so stop complaining :P "

" This thread raises a good point, but honestly it's just contributing to the problem and giving these spammers/trolls even more attention. Was anyone else here last night when someone...

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pornsprayed the forums.

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haha this thread keeps reminding me of the song mo money mo problems but here its mo users mo trolls.

Mo' users, mo' problems.

" @ADTR_ZERO said:

  Most people like to be smart-asses on this site, which is putting a real damper on my GB experiences. It kind of makes me want to find another site, just for the forums. I've been looking. Hmph, this community is about as bad as Gamespot, just with different kinds of people. I mean, nobody is allowed to share an opinion or say something negative against a post for a popular game, nooooooo, that would be trolling. Pfft. "

i know what you mean. this community does have it's share of idiots. I wouldn't blame you for leaving, as others have left (and I, myself almost did) because of the community sometimes. It's the internet, though. you have to expect people to act like idiots.   I'm also sorry for acting like a dick in your other thread. that wasn't cool of me :\  "

I just see people not being assholes, but just trying to be funny. PS: Most of the time it doesn't work.

What kind of people would we be if we didn't go into rage filled threads with the U MAD pic?  I don't want to live in that world.

" @Symphony: ugh, You're right. Sorry for not contributing anything to this thread, or trying to help out this "problem" altogether. should of thought twice before posting :\   I do agree that giant bomb has a lot of great people, and if you treat them correctly, you'll see that they aren't even bad people. the trolls can be easily avoided just by a flag. that's what i've learned, anyway.  "

" @dcpc10 said:

" This thread raises a good point, but honestly it's just contributing to the problem and giving these spammers/trolls even more attention. Was anyone else here last night when someone...

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pornsprayed the forums.

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oh my god. that was horrible, and I laughed my ass off  "

" @Alex_Murphy said:

" I don't think GB is under attack, maybe it's just that 2% of people are twats. If the user base grows you'll have more people but also more twats. "

You my friend have WAY more faith in humanity than me, 2%? I'd put it at at least 30-40%  But seriously its simple and its been stated but I will say it again because Im here anyway, 1: More people = More stupidity 2: The phrase "Don't Feed The Troll" is something to remember 3: Its winter vacation, The kiddies are bored.  Just try to ignore the stupidity and hopefully the morons will leave of their own accord. "

It's part of the aches and pains of a growing site.  If you think it's bad here try going to 1up.  Lately I've see adverspam in just about every comment section and everytime something is flagged as innapropriate five more pop up in its place.  All the large sites deal with it.  It's up to the mods to keep it clean.

This is a videogame forum... what do you honestly expect?!

haha

This may not be a popular opinion, but if the gamespot moderators were'nt the the internet's version of the morality police we would have a lot fewer jerk offs banned from that site who defect to this one.

We need NeoGAF level moderators for quick, swift perma bans.  It seems that the mods are mostly content with just locking a stupid thread, but I think people need to learn to fear them so the crap can stop and we can continue having intelligent discussions.