My friend recently came across this place: [url]http://www.gamefallout.com/[/url]
This is no shameless self advertising or anything, I or anyone I know has nothing to do with this place but it's generally creepy because everyone types in [B]fluent English[/B], the names are pretty much all formal like 'Rob smith', 'Lucy' etc and the avatars are all of normal stock-ish people. A lot of the avatars you can tineye and get results so I'm just not sure what to think.
I don't know but there is something about this site that makes me think it isn't a real place, like a few people have gone out of their way to fill the place up with such posts.
Have I found the ghost forum of the internet?
[QUOTE=PX1K;32763834]the avatars are all of normal stock-ish people[/QUOTE]
I've seen 6 members already that had a masculine nickname and their avatar was some chick.
that's definitively not a ghost forum since last post made [B]today[/B]
well everyone doesn't type like monkeys
or they have the oldschool fp grammar nazi laws(typing like dolt will result in instant permaban)
[QUOTE=Hans-Gunther 3.;32763962]I've seen 6 members already that had a masculine nickname and their avatar was some chick.[/QUOTE]
Facebook profile browsing? IT JUST AINT RIGHT
Othor Games
[B]FLUENT ENGLISH[/B]
[quote]How big is the legion? how many legionnaries are there? 10 thousend? i always wonderd.. [/quote]
Isn't exactly fluent...
I thought we had established this was a phishing site in the fallout thread and that the posters were all not real or something like that. What with the images mostly girls, names mostly male, it looks like some kind of profile generator and then posting under a fake profile.
[editline]13th October 2011[/editline]
Plus the few real posters there are help mix everything up.
[url=http://www.gamefallout.com/othor-games.html]Othor games?[/url], that isn't right, is it?
Well most of the English is a hell of a lot more fluent than you would see around most places like that on the new
[QUOTE=PX1K;32763834]My friend recently came across this place: [url]http://www.gamefallout.com/[/url]
This is no shameless self advertising or anything, I or anyone I know has nothing to do with this place but it's generally creepy because everyone types in [B]fluent English[/B], the names are pretty much all formal like 'Rob smith', 'Lucy' etc and the avatars are all of normal stock-ish people. A lot of the avatars you can tineye and get results so I'm just not sure what to think.
I don't know but there is something about this site that makes me think it isn't a real place, like a few people have gone out of their way to fill the place up with such posts.
Have I found the ghost forum of the internet?[/QUOTE]
It's some fake Chinese mirror site.
It takes entire threads off the Bethesda Forums, replicates them exactly with generic accounts with photos off some social network site or something.
It comes up first in results on google for a lot of Oblivion/Fallout related stuff, they must be making a load of money from ad revenue.
Here's an example, I googled the name of my Fallout mod:
[url]http://www.gamefallout.com/the-disgrace-liberty-t57518.html[/url]
[url=http://forums.bethsoft.com/index.php?/topic/1186046-wip-the-disgrace-of-liberty/](Original thread here)[/url]
Oh right. The profile names and pictures made me think something was wrong with it
loads of their joindates are from like 2006 and 2007. i really don't understand the point of the forum, is it one guy just making a shitload of posts on different accounts to make his forum seem popular or something
[editline]13th October 2011[/editline]
[url]http://www.gamefallout.com/forum-that-copies-off-other-forums-t138597.html[/url]
what the shit
[QUOTE=cheesedelux;32764059]It's some fake Chinese mirror site.
It takes entire threads off the Bethesda Forums, replicates them exactly with generic accounts with photos off some social network site or something.
It comes up first in results on google for a lot of Oblivion/Fallout related stuff, they must be making a load of money from ad revenue.
Here's an example, I googled the name of my Fallout mod:
[url]http://www.gamefallout.com/the-disgrace-liberty-t57518.html[/url]
[url=http://forums.bethsoft.com/index.php?/topic/1186046-wip-the-disgrace-of-liberty/](Original thread here)[/url][/QUOTE]
Ads? All they have is the 3 or 4 text ads near the top. I had to look it over once or twice to find them.
Could be some bot to fill up the forum with random accounts and posts
You silly people. Its just a cleverly discuised pedophile ring
For a second there i thought i was on a more literate facebook
Is it possible to report stuff like this?
Oh, another thing worth mentioning is that their date goes from several months behind reality to weeks ahead. I think it's to give the illusion that their duplicate bot-threads came before Bethesda Forums' original posts.
(Like with the example I posted above. I made that thread in May this year, Gamefallout's copy has it marked as "Feb 19".)
[QUOTE=Logic Studio;32765081]You silly people. Its just a cleverly discuised pedophile ring[/QUOTE]
New Vegas Nexus. That is all.
holy shit. The fucking avatars... Who would go through all this length just for a for forum. Also the post count on threads is way too low for 82650 members.
Probably some freak who is either autistic as hell or is channeling his split personality through this forum.
[QUOTE=Logic Studio;32765081]You silly people. Its just a cleverly discuised pedophile ring[/QUOTE]
Something like that could be going on. Just think about it. They set up a front, a forum supposedly for fallout(a game of which there is a lot of info to be found). You get on there and think, it's just another forum because they are discussing what the title of the forum implies.
But still the pictures put you off. They make you not want to register don't they. But because they do talk about the game you don't put anymore thought into it...
maybe now you do.
[sp]I'm just kidding, but still[/sp]
GMF is full of child pornography, Facepunch is just a cover.
People talking in [I]fluent language[/I] and [I]correct sentence structure[/I]? On the internet?
Creepy.
[QUOTE=Chezhead;32768050]People talking in [I]fluent language[/I] and [I]correct sentence structure[/I]? On the internet?
Creepy.[/QUOTE]
i kno rite
I say we make accounts, attempt to mess with these Chinese adbots.
[QUOTE=Chezhead;32768159]I say we make accounts, attempt to mess with these Chinese adbots.[/QUOTE]
Guys, it's fishing site.
All the post are copied from the Bethesda forum.
it's a lot less creepy than it seems, for some reason a bot scrapes popular game forums then transfers them into the subforums of gamefallout. I've recognised the bethesda forums and mycrysis, there's probably more, google the posts and you should find their source
No idea why all the avatars are random girls' facebook pictures though. Presumably there's a scraper that picks up those as well. Maybe it's a big scam for ad revenue, the guy who owns it is chinese, they're all internet crooks. Fucking gold farmers.
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