So what's the deal with gamesas.com?

Post » Sat Jun 22, 2013 11:31 am

So, out of curiosity and sheer boredom, I decided to google Candles of the North(a small Skyrim mod I made), and alongside the downloads and a mod spotlight from the lovely Dragonporm, I noticed an odd link. "http://www.gamesas.com/skyrim-candles-the-north-morrowind-esque-wielded-t267136.html". I am not sure what would be after the wielded, so I will assume they mean candles. Now, I decide to check the page, and I noticed a couple things. One, the first(and only) 2 posts in the thread are identical to an older version of my similarly named thread, "http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1396327-relz-skyrim-candles-of-the-north-morrowind-esque-wielded-candles-for-skyrim/". The other thing I noticed was that the thread was for -Blam!-ing sure not posted by me, and Se?or Cinco sure as -Blam!- was not the person replying. Another thing I noticed was that both of these "people"(Possibly bots?) had thousands of posts each. Out of further curiosity, I googled to see if they also did this with aESA:ALMSIVI. http://www.gamesas.com/almsivi-narrative-driven-and-lore-friendly-advent-t322407.html Further research(read: Google searches) shows that I am http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2519426 who is http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/615803-the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim/62027185 Anybody have any ideas as to what the site even is?

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Jah Allen
 
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Post » Sat Jun 22, 2013 11:45 am

Ya, this has been known for a long time (even before Skyrim's release). I remember when it was gamefallout.com :P

Oh, and I was a Israeli woman...

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Melung Chan
 
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Post » Sat Jun 22, 2013 7:34 pm

Yep. http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1332320-the-bsf-clone/?hl=%20gamesas http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1446774-looking-for-that-thread-about-gamesas/?hl=%2Bgamesas#entry22322758 http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1404787-gamesascom-bot-copying-these-forums/?hl=%2Bgamesas#entry21406454 http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1287072-site-scraping-bethesda-forums-wth/?hl=+gamesas

I haven't seen who I am on there yet. If you think that's weird, try looking yourself up on ProfileEngine.

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Cash n Class
 
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Post » Sat Jun 22, 2013 7:07 am

So far, I am both a heavily armored vehicle and a gymnast cat! :P

I see this site has quite the history!

I found my Facebook profile. This is very off putting!

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Vincent Joe
 
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Post » Sat Jun 22, 2013 6:46 am

I wasn't aware of this until now. Bizarre.

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Sasha Brown
 
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Post » Sat Jun 22, 2013 3:51 pm

Pretty strange indeed. It'd be fun if someone actually registered on gamesas and thought that he/she actually was talking to real people. Sooner or later they'd start to wonder why no one is responding to them, though.

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teeny
 
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Post » Sat Jun 22, 2013 8:18 am

Considering how almost all of the threads that I have seen which are similar to those here have no differing posts, I am inclined to believe people seem to be smarter than that. It would be good fun, though, all in the name of phishing and botnets! :P

How long until you guys think this thread pops up there?

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Miranda Taylor
 
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Post » Sat Jun 22, 2013 5:17 pm

That's why we have to start making bogus posts that'll go in there, such as:

IT'S AWARE!

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Daniel Lozano
 
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Post » Sat Jun 22, 2013 10:00 am

IT'S HAPPENING

DON'T SCREAM WHEN THE BLASTWAVE HITS

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Red Bevinz
 
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Post » Sat Jun 22, 2013 11:24 am

What if we're the clone and gamesas.com is the original?

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Richus Dude
 
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Post » Sat Jun 22, 2013 5:09 pm

I say we tell Gstaff.

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Cartoon
 
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Post » Sat Jun 22, 2013 12:13 pm

Maybe you're all just very elaborate bots and I'm the only real person here...

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Teghan Harris
 
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Post » Sat Jun 22, 2013 1:33 pm

...Mr. Anderson.

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