Seconded, but I'd also like new variants too

The second suggestion there would force David E. Cohen to finally play a game on the site, rest in peace his perfect 0 phases played over 13 years :pensive:

But overall agreed very annoying to see a million bot scams on the forum for some reason

Seconded. For some reason, the bot spams are always about Diablo, like clockwork. I doubt anyone would actually click the links being posted but it's better safe than sorry

To @Orange, I think we can make it so that certain members don't have to play games. Or, and this comes from a person who has no idea how programming or website management works, but there might be ways to implement anti-bot protocols (like captcha) whenever someone tries to start a thread

Additionally: make it so that banned bot accounts would also have their forum threads deleted. Just makes things better

This is getting ridiculous.

If I wanted cocaine, I'd go to webDip :D

I'm suddenly getting the urge for cocaine

This is a call to action if I've ever seen one. It was never this bad before

Oh my god it's 4 pages worth of cocaine

Good ideas

Plus COCAIN3!

The worst part is they're selling cocaine to places I've never heard (and I do like my geography) and dare I say even New Zealand. But not Australia. Maybe the spammers would've got to us after the 14th coke page.

Some of these have less than 15 thousand people, it's really weird.

And there's Wyoming in there... Why?

This is actually ridiculous. The bot spam is endless

Too much junk messages,we need a double-check to ensure they are players instead of just sending junk messages.
Website coding should be improved I think.

Even just a simple captcha during account creation should suffice. And I think there should be a feature that allows the mods to delete every forum post of certain accounts

If this keeps happening, i might take up the bots' offer and buy some cannabis

I like how this last dude is both posting where you can buy these various drugs but also asking about what the current trends are or what the best ones are or if there are any local support groups (yes it is called playing war games)

Buy annabis in Campione d'Italia, call +420 6969 4444 or find me on Telgram @bullshit99.
Buy LSD in Aasivik best dealr find me

I'd buy Anubis from the Czechs.

My personal favorite is "legal and illegal oil products"

I just noticed the "Mute thread" feature. Each thread has the words "Mute thread" in tiny letters in the right sidebar. Click that and the offending thread disappears from your feed.

@Orange: I love you too. LOL

The bots are sending messages again.

Wanna buy a license for literally anything?

I thought the mods couldn't really change the vdip codebase

Currently looking into some improvements.
First added some admin functionality to remove threads and posts and already removed a bunch of spam messages with this new tool.
Plan to add some way to further restrict spam bots next.

Hell yeah

Yooooooo nice. Related, will there also be functionality to remove crashed games from the new games list? There's like 12 of them.

Woohoo! THANK YOU!#@%!

Awesome tobi

Just used this power for the first time. Very cathartic!

Thanks Kaner for doing and tobi for the coding!

It's all gone :o Blessed. What sort of limits do you guys as mods have compared to Oli?

There's mods, then a couple of admins, and then there's Tobi (who's as close to Oli power as you can get with out being Oli :)

Huh, is creating new variants still an Oli only thing then?

There's a whole heap of variants being worked on in the background, some more advanced than others. If I was forced to choose a favourite then it is a Pangea variant where each power is a different species of dinosaur...

I c I c, well I'm gonna keep hoping I can get mine up but it's been like 5 months so who knows

Praise for Pangea! It's appreciated friend, I too like how this first iteration came out in the end. But truthfully I haven't been able to progress on it for some time, the last interaction with the higher ups was about a year ago so I think we're in similar boats Orange.

That being said Im assuming its just not enough time to do all this on Tobi's part, no harm taken, life absolutely comes before the volunteered efforts on the site. Or at least im assuming that's the reason, if I stepped on any toes somehow I assure you I didn't mean it, hahaha! Either way I would love to get Pangea going again, whenever that might be, no rush, I'll undoubtedly still be here.

the ads came again...

They should advertise their ‘revenge spell caster’ for anyone who stabs you in diplomacy

I do believe that goes against rule 2, so their campaign wouldn't be too successful.

I just imagine the guy slinging crack on the forums reads whatever rule 2 is and goes

‘Shit i don’t want to break the rules’ then leaves the forum forever

+666 555 555
how to harm backkstaber who betrayed, instant spell for civil disorder, voodo dummy of russian, vodoo england, get your scs back, spell that works over phases, juggernaut curse, INSTANT REVENG

What if the spell just makes them CD and unable to rejoin?

Does a revenge spell cause our board adversaries to make spelling errors in their press?

[b]testing[/b]

Happy to assist with bumping threads and stuff like that. Used to do that on the old webdip forum.

We've got thread deletion feature now. I can delete singular threads, or multiple threads by user if needed - it gives me almost as much pleasure as my 10x10m Diplomacy board in my basement :-)