map editor stops at 83% and fails “publishing not enabled”
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According to a Reddit post, map uploads have been temporarily paused until they find a way to stop people from injecting inappropriate content into arcade maps.
"Hey everyone, I’m Eric from the Blizzard Comms team.
We are working to fix the exploit we believe might have been used by certain players to upload content that violates our policies. We take the safety of our players and our platform very seriously. The inappropriate content is being removed, and the responsible parties have been banned. To prevent additional policy violations, we have temporarily disabled the ability for players to upload new maps and mods through the SC2 Map Editor while we work on a permanent fix."
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It is kinda funny that the SC2 game engine doesn’t sanitize URLs from inside map files. It seems like a no brainer that if a map has a URL in it that the map should be assumed to be malicious.
I coded an engine for a MMO sandbox game that piped lua script calls between the server and client. Sanitation of all parameters was a top priority. To register a lua call for sharing, the parameters and valid ranges of those parameters had to be specified. The lua function itself also validating the inputs and would flag the log files if an invalid input occurred. Only functions provided by the server would be allowed. Even if they managed to find a way to give bogus inputs to a lua function, it wouldn’t matter because it only affects that one sandbox which could easily be restarted after crashing. URLs were a big no-no. Saying “find us on Google by searching “blah blah”” was fine.
A simple internet search brings up the Blizzard post on Reddit, SebastianDri.
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/1k3scsm/comment/moi65gw/
UPDATE:
Bliz posted about this in the Editor Discussion forum. So that would be the best place to paste any map links. See here:
thanks maybe they should warn people in the map editor, maybe leave some sort of message.
Have there been any further updates from Blizzzard?
I’m thinking editor won’t allow anymore videos to be added to custom maps after they patch editor.
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I’ve been modding for so many years, and I never knew one could insert videos in its mods 
makes sense for videos when blizzard makes the campaign maps, but kind of excessive for everyone to put videos in their maps in my opinion.
Hopefully there has been a solution and it’s being implemented
2 week and problem not solved…
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Ok, they Need to fix this soon. I have a map update I need to push for the last 3 days. Come on Blizzard, we are working with the bare minimum in your dead abandoned game. At least let us have some fun with what we got…
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Yup. I am still waiting for at least an estimation when we have the upload service again
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seems like they disabled it and forgot about disabling it?
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While they take years to solve a simple problem why dont they just ban the account of the person who uploaded the reported content and let the rest of us get on with our lives. They’re punishing the 99.99% for what the .01% did. Also, who is playing these maps with violent videos in them? Just dont play them? In 15 years of sc2 only now this is a problem? I’ve suspected the person who uploaded the video was also the person who reported the video, knowing Blizzard would take the worst possible reaction by nuking the entire platform to block one video on one map that nobody plays. In the time it took them to solve a simple problem people are going to go away and start playing other games. Also, why not post an estimate to the community as to when it will be fixed, so we aren’t trying to upload with hope every day.
you seem to be forgetting one important detail here, the game is free to play and anyone can make a new email and rejoin the game.
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The exploit can be used by anyone, including the same person(s) with multiple accounts. Banning an account or several will not stop it.
It’s not the maps that have the illict content in them. The exploit injects the content into the play session. Meaning all maps on the arcade are susceptible.
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hey leviathin can you explain that a bit more about how they are doing it. obviously dont go into full detail and all cause you dont want to tell people how to do it, but if you can shed more light on it maybe the community will have a better understanding whats going on.
Why didn’t Blizzard just turn off arcade mode then? If the issue is people injecting videos into play sessions then its still happening.
This solution actually makes sense. Turn off uploading only for Arcade?