OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/25149/Newspaper_Chain_Fires_Copyright_Troll_Righthaven Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Sun, 19 May 2013 09:25:43 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com RE: fdsgsdf http://www.osnews.com/thread?488941 http://www.osnews.com/thread?488941 could someone please implement auto-ban as soon as a link to ifancyshop.com is posted? Fri, 09 Sep 2011 01:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (smashIt) Comments RE[2]: fdsgsdf http://www.osnews.com/thread?488944 http://www.osnews.com/thread?488944 Don't waste your time asking. Nobody ever seems to reply to such requests. Fri, 09 Sep 2011 02:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (darknexus) Comments RE[3]: fdsgsdf http://www.osnews.com/thread?488949 http://www.osnews.com/thread?488949 hope dies last ;) Fri, 09 Sep 2011 03:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (smashIt) Comments RE[4]: fdsgsdf http://www.osnews.com/thread?488962 http://www.osnews.com/thread?488962 You can try email, it always works better Fri, 09 Sep 2011 06:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Neolander) Comments RE[2]: fdsgsdf http://www.osnews.com/thread?488967 http://www.osnews.com/thread?488967 Not sure if that would help. Remember - this is not a bot, these are REAL people making accounts. Even implementing per-comment captchas would be pointless. Fri, 09 Sep 2011 09:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom_Holwerda) Comments where are the comments? http://www.osnews.com/thread?488971 http://www.osnews.com/thread?488971 Off Topic, I know, but it says underneath the article '5 comments', and even when I set my treshold to -5 I don't see any comments... Fri, 09 Sep 2011 09:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Dryhte) Comments RE: where are the comments? http://www.osnews.com/thread?488977 http://www.osnews.com/thread?488977
Off Topic, I know, but it says underneath the article '5 comments', and even when I set my treshold to -5 I don't see any comments...


Don't know why, but you have to use "flat view". Fri, 09 Sep 2011 10:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (frajo) Comments RE[2]: where are the comments? http://www.osnews.com/thread?488980 http://www.osnews.com/thread?488980 Oh I understand, they're all replies to a deleted post. and in threaded view, if the thread has no 'root' it isn't shown. Weird. Thanks for clarifying. Fri, 09 Sep 2011 10:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Dryhte) Comments RE[3]: where are the comments? http://www.osnews.com/thread?488983 http://www.osnews.com/thread?488983 I always use flat view, hadn't noticed this.

In any case, we need to consider other options here. Will discuss internally. Fri, 09 Sep 2011 11:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom_Holwerda) Comments RE[4]: where are the comments? http://www.osnews.com/thread?489004 http://www.osnews.com/thread?489004 No I think there is something wrong. For at least a week I've been getting false numbers of "x comment(s)". For example: The "SF Police Launch..." article tells me it has 1 comment even though there are none.

I tested this with Firefox, Conkeror and Chromium. Links does however tell me the right number of comments.

See screenshot...

http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/209/201109091659481366x768s.png Edited 2011-09-09 15:13 UTC Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (righard) Comments RE[5]: where are the comments? http://www.osnews.com/thread?489005 http://www.osnews.com/thread?489005 That's because that one comment was one of the spam comments. When it is removed, there's a bug in the system which makes the counter remain at 1. For any other amount, the number is properly updated. Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom_Holwerda) Comments RE[3]: fdsgsdf http://www.osnews.com/thread?489045 http://www.osnews.com/thread?489045
Not sure if that would help. Remember - this is not a bot, these are REAL people making accounts. Even implementing per-comment captchas would be pointless.


I wouldn't go that far anyway. Start doing per-comment verification, and I doubt there'll be much life in the threads for long. Remember Yahoo webmail back when they tried that?
Are we sure these are real people doing this? It seems similar to a lot of other spam bots I've encountered. Some of them are pretty advanced, even able to solve simple captchas more often than not, and I'd think that even the most idle person would have better things to do than to keep creating fake accounts just to post the same jibberish. Fri, 09 Sep 2011 20:24:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (darknexus) Comments RE[6]: where are the comments? http://www.osnews.com/thread?489046 http://www.osnews.com/thread?489046 They are not bugs, they are alternate implementation capabilities! Fri, 09 Sep 2011 20:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (fretinator) Comments