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A Flying Brick 18 Mar, 2017 @ 4:52pm

How to archive evidence.

The first thing shady and/or douchebag developers/publishers do when they know someone is onto their behavour is delete the evidence of it. So it's very important, expecially when reporting them to Valve, to have the evidence archived.

These are the sites I personally use because they're free and they do the job.
http://archive.is/ for full webpages (note that embeded videos won't play)
http://imgur.com/ for images and collections of images

What makes a good archive? Simple.
- Crop out ads and edit out your personal/log in information.
- Don't crop out other comments on the page, it's important to have context.
- Don't draw circles, arrows, etc on it with MS Paint.

And remember if you see something that needs to be shared, make a copy of it so everyone can see it, even if the original post has been taken down.

Last edited by Mellow_Online1; 18 Jun, 2018 @ 7:36am

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Sanji Himura 18 Mar, 2017 @ 5:01pm

Another resource if you have Firefox is the Nimbus Screenshot add on. With it, you can capture a specific section of a web page, the visible area of a web page (the part that is showing on your browser window) or full web pages in .jpg or .png formats.

It is faster than archive.is or any other web page preservation sites because you don't need to "reload" (a process that is necessary when using any of those sites) a web page again to preserve them, and is handy if you have a developer that is known to be itchy on the delete button on any forum thread or the comments section.

⎛⎝d34dr00⎠⎞ 18 Mar, 2017 @ 5:57pm

plus use

https://steamrep.com/
-Find out dev/s Level.
-Shows VAC bans
-Good breakdown of friends list. (show how many have VAC ban.)

https://greenlightupdates.com/
-good for showing full game list from Dev. (Added games and Removed games and shows date)

I use a Windows software called Snipping Tool for screenies.

Last edited by ⎛⎝d34dr00⎠⎞; 18 Mar, 2017 @ 5:59pm

Sayuri 24 Mar, 2017 @ 9:17pm

"It is faster than archive.is or any other web page preservation sites because you don't need to "reload" (a process that is necessary when using any of those sites) a web page again to preserve them, and is handy if you have a developer that is known to be itchy on the delete button on any forum thread or the comments section."

Yeah, but screenshots are incredibly inadmissable. The whole point of places like archive.is or the wayback machine is that a 3rd party can confirm the contents of the website at a specific point in time. It's way too easy to forge screenshots.

archive.is or it did not happen

Last edited by Sayuri; 24 Mar, 2017 @ 9:19pm

A Flying Brick 24 Mar, 2017 @ 11:37pm

Originally posted by 🐾 Sayuri Firebrand:
Yeah, but screenshots are incredibly inadmissable. The whole point of places like archive.is or the wayback machine is that a 3rd party can confirm the contents of the website at a specific point in time. It's way too easy to forge screenshots.

archive.is or it did not happen

True but the screen grabs are sometimes the only option, expecially for mobile users.

Last edited by A Flying Brick; 24 Mar, 2017 @ 11:37pm

Mellow_Online1

18 Jun, 2018 @ 7:36am

Youtube in MP4 was shut down recently, so I have removed it from the post.

A Flying Brick 18 Jun, 2018 @ 7:43am

Yeah it seems a few simular sites have met the same fate, something tells me Youtube's legal dept has been having a workout.
https://www.onlinevideoconverter.com/video-converter works but it's not very good and I highly recommend using an adblocker. There are some browser extensions that allow you to save from video sites, but I don't know of any good ones.