• [PSA/Drama] New fake server memes
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Hihi, I haven't seen any talk about this, so I figured I'd give people a heads up. Someone (people?) are running fake servers with the exact name, map, etc. as existing communities with a fake playercount. These servers then redirect you to another community when you join. I can only assume this is in an attempt to cause drama between communities. It's clearly worked. Right now I'm aware of it happening to two servers, including IceFuse. The former community is already aware it's happening so I don't need to mention them right now I guess. The person doing this I think is trying to get communities banned from the server browser, too. It's clearly worked as Rubat has banned one community name already, even though he admits he has no idea who's doing this. Before anyone says "take this directly to rubat" - I told Rubat who I think is doing this, and why I think they would, and why I think they're able, after he asked. He hasn't responded to that in ~2 days, while he replied to my other messages within ~20 minutes. He's also stopped updating the ban list with the new fake server IP's. Not that he's bad for doing this, he can't do too much - but he shouldn't be banning communities which are clearly the targets in this situation imho. ADHD/TLDR: Someone is setting up fake servers which copy real servers, that redirect you to another community to cause drama. If anyone knows who's doing this please let me know or just, you know, stop doing it.
if you would look at the pinned thread in gmod generel you would find a link to report this kind of stuff to facepunch. And you would also know that the forum is not the place to post it. And you would know that tags are not allowed.. Or service adverstisement which you already got baned for
He's already contacted Rubat as stated in the thread, which I gave him permission to make. In the future, let the mods handle forum moderation - report, don't reply. As for the tags, I will let this one slide, but as mods can't rename threads atm, any future titles containing [tags] that aren't used for help specification ([DarkRP], [Linux], etc.) will be deleted.
Hopefully this isn't too off topic, but uh, how do I actually report on Newpunch?
Garry hasn't added a report feature yet, so you can use the #forum-reports channel in the Facepunch Discord for now. More info in the sticky.
Bumping this thread, it seems Rubat has gone back to banning my community after someone re-setup the fake servers, and probably reported it again. This is insane, how is he just buying this shit?
Is this just more 1200IQ gorilla-outrage marketing techniques. Also if anything setting up fake redirects of popular servers is just free advertising for those communities. Any time someone opens the console they're greeted with an exclusive list of servers showing their IP and full server name. With that being said, I'd recommend removing the name of the server from the console blacklist message and just change it to read something like "blacklisting redirect IP: <ip>". Giving players the ability to advertise their server to every single player who opens the console is bound to cause drama.
I was on this server called Gladius Sandbox propping around and I overheard the staff talking about the fake servers and how they would like to do that. Fix when?
Calm your erection, this is now resolved thanks to Hezzy & Rubat
HEY garry just added reports so use that from now on
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