whitetop
02-27-2015, 01:44 AM
Earlier this month, The Pirate Bay relaunched after nearly two months of downtime but with one group notably missing: moderators.
Now that security issues have been resolved, the moderator team is back with access to the back end of the site.
The team has a large job ahead of them, as spammers and scammers have been using the past few weeks to upload fake torrents and place spam and scam comments across legit torrent files. Fake torrents are most often littered with malware but some are less malicious and just include the incorrect file.
"I don't know how many torrents have been removed so far, but it is in the hundreds. Some fakers had eight or nine pages under their account," longtime TPB moderator Agricola noted.
New accounts have been banned for the time being, to help the cleanup, and the old title of "helper" has also been removed.
Now that security issues have been resolved, the moderator team is back with access to the back end of the site.
The team has a large job ahead of them, as spammers and scammers have been using the past few weeks to upload fake torrents and place spam and scam comments across legit torrent files. Fake torrents are most often littered with malware but some are less malicious and just include the incorrect file.
"I don't know how many torrents have been removed so far, but it is in the hundreds. Some fakers had eight or nine pages under their account," longtime TPB moderator Agricola noted.
New accounts have been banned for the time being, to help the cleanup, and the old title of "helper" has also been removed.