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Spam comments
By bazsi700, history, 7 years ago, In English

Lately, nearly every day I come across with comments which advertise something, from online games, through websites, to online courses. These comments are always made by unrated users, who has just registered to the site.

I think the problem could be solved, if making comment had some prerequisite, like having participated in a contest, having made accepted submissions, or something.

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I would laugh a lot if some unrated user write "advertise" comment here :D

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      Hi, so to me seems like a single cliche. Though I have came across tens of similar comment in codeforces article (it was in English) way back.

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    Well, at least they make you laugh.

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OK, I'll explain what happens if there is Topcoder:
About 2 months ago, one of Topcoder forum thread that I involved, appeared a spam comment. A unrated person did and the content was like "Nice thread, thanks" and attached a link and it was a CASINO website (of course I didn't play it).
And a day later I saw this one was deleted, but after some hours (probably) some people said like "spam detected: he did some (about 3) spam comment" (the content was little different, but same link attached) in Topcoder slack. I also reported what the spammer did. And his all comment was deleted and probably banned — because in Topcoder rule the user only for spam (of course I think rated person but spam too many comment too) will be banned.

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    So, codeforces laws are more liberating or there are no admins to have a look for it

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    CF admins/moderators (IDK exactly who, maybe Mike) delete spam comments also. I see some comments dissappear, but it doesn't solve the issue itself. It should be paired with some restriction, so if someone gets banned, then can't instantly register another account and spam again.

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Well, there can be "report to admin" section in comments. "Having made accepted solution" is not good idea for this, because, the X can also write script which auto submits some problem, i.e. 1A. I think "having participated contest" is not good idea, there can be big gaps between some contests and someone is new here and wants to write comment...

X is the person who writes/makes bots for this comments

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    These are just ideas, none of them are perfect. Anyways stopping something entirely is impossible. The best they can make is lower the amount of these. This could be by restricting 1 login to 1 IP,(bad because of family members and proxy/VPN) or asking to solve a specific problem before commenting. (would solve the 1A bot, but it would have to be an easy problem so anyone could comment who wants to, but then spammers can solve it in few minutes too)

    Point being is, if some actions were made, maybe the spammers wouldn't take the effort to bypass all of them.

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Alternatively, you can make a blacklist of websites and automatically hide all comments that link to those sites. That way there won't be an incentive for the spammers so they will stop.

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