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    • A Former User
      A Former User @leocg last edited by A Former User

      There is limited (minimal) attention and feedback from Opera on comments made on blog posts.
      The comment section there does not work well for dialogue, thus I posted here on the forum.

      No big deal for me, but I would think Opera would be interested in reducing spam on native pages.

      (In my example above, currently 26% of all opening comments are Spam)

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        • A Former User
          A Former User last edited by A Former User

          For that reason I'm quitting posting there. 7 of my posts were flagged as spam probably due to a "lock everything" measure instead of giving it the proper attention-fix, every retry I made was rejected plus the place is filled with spam-copy posts from bots that are not being ever removed despite the flagging. Never liked disqus and this was the nail in the coffin.

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          • A Former User
            A Former User @Guest last edited by A Former User

            When Opera moderators are replying to spam/clone bots,
            not noticing that the text is a direct duplicate from a previous post – I think there is little hope for resolution.

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              leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

              @vegelund Depending on the comment, it may not be that easy to note that it's a cloned one.

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                leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

                @xirit32 It was probably Disqus anti-apam blocking your comments there.

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                  A Former User @leocg last edited by A Former User

                  @leocg Probably or not probably I'm done with it. If you look at some blog posts there it is still an unmoderated mess.

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                  • A Former User
                    A Former User last edited by

                    No response or proposed solution to this?

                    Check out comments in this blog post, almost more copy bots than normal users:

                    http://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2018/03/opera-52-0-2871-20-release-candidate/

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                    • leocg
                      leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

                      @vegelund There's nothing much that Opera can do other than, maybe, change the commenting system.

                      Disqus is the one who should do something about it.

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                        A Former User @leocg last edited by A Former User

                        @leocg I'm not totally sure about it as I haven't seen THAT many bots/spam in any other website that uses disqus. Not that I wouldn't be happy if they would ditch it anyway since I never liked it.

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                          leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

                          @xirit32 Maybe those websites aren't that popular as Opera's blog. 😃

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                            A Former User @leocg last edited by A Former User

                            @leocg Nah, I wouldn't say Opera's blog is so popular, the beta/stable comments rarely reach 50-100 comments and even the dev reaches what max 200 comments? I've seen in pcgamer.com articles with 1200+ comments and never such a tragedy.

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