The Community Spotlight 2025.02.08
Welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! I, @zombiepie, am honored to be your host as we look back at the site-related news and best community creations from the previous week.First, thanks to the incredible efforts of a handful of people on the Giant Bomb Discord (i.e., @chucktowski, @alwaysbeclothing, and more) there's a new fan-run Giant Bomb Infinite alternative on Twitch called GiantBombForever for everyone to enjoy! GiantBombForever brings back a 24/7 stream of Giant Bomb videos, including voting and has a closely monitored Twitch chat that is welcoming all frequenters of the old Infinite chat. Also, thanks to Jan and Dylan, I was able to create a playlist on YouTube that has every single classic Giant Bomb Infinite bumper or transition.On a technical note, the engineers are working on new filters and auto-ban tools that hopefully make a dent on the recent influx of spambots. Right now they are testing a filter that blocks or automatically nukes a post or comment if the content contains greater than 70% links. They also are going to set the site's filters to nuke the post/comment if the content contains greater than 50% alternative unicode characters (e.g.
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Welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! I, @zombiepie, am honored to be your host as we look back at the site-related news and best community creations from the previous week.
First, thanks to the incredible efforts of a handful of people on the Giant Bomb Discord (i.e., @chucktowski, @alwaysbeclothing, and more) there's a new fan-run Giant Bomb Infinite alternative on Twitch called GiantBombForever for everyone to enjoy! GiantBombForever brings back a 24/7 stream of Giant Bomb videos, including voting and has a closely monitored Twitch chat that is welcoming all frequenters of the old Infinite chat. Also, thanks to Jan and Dylan, I was able to create a playlist on YouTube that has every single classic Giant Bomb Infinite bumper or transition.
On a technical note, the engineers are working on new filters and auto-ban tools that hopefully make a dent on the recent influx of spambots. Right now they are testing a filter that blocks or automatically nukes a post or comment if the content contains greater than 70% links. They also are going to set the site's filters to nuke the post/comment if the content contains greater than 50% alternative unicode characters (e.g.