Users/bots copying comments on Opera Blog.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by A Former User

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 @Guest 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.

[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)

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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/

[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.

[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.