Users/bots copying comments on Opera Blog.

[vegelund]

vegelund last edited by vegelund

I notice there are users that copy text from previous comments and post them.

Six (6) entries just in the most recent blog post:

http://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2018/01/opera-50-0-2762-58-stable-update/#disqus_thread

These comments are usually easy to spot, due to missing context.

What’s the purpose of this activity?

Should it be reported as Spam?

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @vegelund last edited by

@vegelund It's something better to be discussed there on the blog.

I guess you can report it and do a reply pointing to the original comment.

[vegelund]

vegelund @leocg last edited by vegelund

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)

[A Former User]

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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.

[vegelund]

vegelund @Guest last edited by vegelund

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.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @vegelund last edited by

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

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

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

[A Former User]

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.

[vegelund]

vegelund 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/

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @vegelund 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.

[A Former User]

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.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

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

[A Former User]

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.