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CorellianComedian
Posted: Thursday, August 3, 2023 6:39:18 AM
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Joined: 8/30/2014
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Don’t mean to make a big deal about this since I myself have become mostly a lurker here, but is anyone else wondering what the deal is with the user spamming the squadbuilder? Just endless empty squads, each titled after a game piece, 1000 points, no characters picked.

Found the user in question in the user records in the forum and there are three other similarly-named accounts that were all created within a month or so of each other. User profiles are nonsense, just listing random scraps of information about SWMinis characters. Seems like a bot, so I’m afraid to interact with it (or even mention the username) lest I stir up even more nonsense.

I know there are the occasional waves of forum bots that roll through, but attempting to use the squadbuilder is interesting…
adamb0nd
Posted: Thursday, August 3, 2023 11:41:10 AM
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I've reached out to the user and got no response. They have a similar presence on other sites. I think we can say with certainly it's a bot. Mods here can only block users from forum posting and can't block accounts. I asked shinja to block the user by IP as they've effectively ruined the Recent Squad Feature, but alas, no reply.
gholli69
Posted: Thursday, August 3, 2023 7:49:55 PM
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I wondered at first if that was why I wasn't seeing characters in the squad builder the other day before I figured out I just had a filter turned on incorrectly.
DarkDracul
Posted: Friday, August 4, 2023 7:55:06 PM
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I figured it was someone trying to 1 bomb every v-set piece.
Except they don't know how to do it and they're rating squads using a vset piece a 1 instead.
I do admire their dedication.

DarkDracul
Posted: Friday, August 4, 2023 7:58:02 PM
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I guess they doing WotC pieces too.
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