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Misuse of Asphalt: one year on

Since my previous posts last year, there have, unfortunately, been numerous instances of people misusing Asphalt. Between our last post and today, the 2nd of May 2023, there have been 184 more instances. Our previous command flagging system was tedious, in that we were only scanning one command, our most popular command (/play). This system […]

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Providing an update on the recent audio issue

We recently noticed that an audio issue keeps popping its head up and causing issues for multiple servers, in which Asphalt will be stuck in a “Connected” state to your voice channel, and say that it is playing music – when in reality it isn’t even connected to the channel in the first place. We […]

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We’re removing the bankadmin command

Over the past month or so, we have noticed that quite a few server administrators have been misusing the bankadmin command to give themselves and people in their server ungodly amounts of money. For example: Normally, we would have no issues with this if we didn’t have items that could be purchased on the Asphalt […]

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We’re shutting down Asphalt Canary

Recently, I ran a poll amongst our Head of Support and Support team to see what they’d prefer to happen to Asphalt Canary, our donator-only instance of Asphalt. The reason for this poll in the first place is that we’ve noticed that pretty much all of our donators are still using the main instance of […]

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We’re removing NSFW from Asphalt

Now, this may be disappointing to all 83 people per month using Asphalt for its one NSFW command – but we’ve decided to remove it in our next update, we have disabled it for now on all instances of Asphalt due one main factor, being the discontinuation of the API service we used. The API […]

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Following on from our previous post about misuse of Asphalt

As part of our previous post stating we have received numerous reports of people misusing Asphalt to play highly offensive songs, we have been closely monitoring this, and felt the need to post an update with what we’ve done so far. From the 1st of January 2022 to today, 21st of June 2022, we have […]

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Addressing some recent issues regarding misuse of Asphalt

Recently, through various emails, it has come to my attention that people are using Asphalt to attempt to play highly offensive songs (namely troll songs with the n-word), with the sole intent of offending people. This is not tolerated in any way, shape or form and we strongly encourage anyone who sees this happening to […]