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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
          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
            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
              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
                    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
                      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
                        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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