Since my follow-up post last year in May, we have made a number of improvements to our flagging system, including moving away from Azure’s Content Moderation solution, to one provided by Google. The main advantages of this were: We have also made a number of changes to our system, including a tweak to our moderation […]
Category: Community Updates
As you may or may not know, we have an appeals page for users who get blocked and think that their block was unjustified. Previously, this page was…ugly to say the least, making users manually input their User ID (links sent by Asphalt would automatically fill this field in), select the block type (and blocked […]
As shown in our most recent incident, located at https://asphalt.statuspage.io/incidents/wcr6y1s8h36n. Asphalt experienced an issue in which disk usage was rapidly becoming full, even after attempting to clear log files. What happened? The visible (the part that actually affects users of Asphalt) began at 03:00 on 06/04/2023 UK Time, when CPU, disk and load all simultaneously […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]