I always use the report button, but here's the thing - where does this "report" go to? If it goes to a dark cavern full of monsters that no GOG staffer ever visits, then it should be renamed to plain "hide", otherwise whoever receives these reports at GOG needs to act at some point, just like they do if you report spam on the forums.

Since I've never ever seen any spam being removed from Wishlist comments, I'm inclined to believe it's the monsters in the cavern that receive the reports. ;-P

Indeed, sadly I also haven't seen any of the spam I've reported on the wishlist be removed.
(My apologies to the site staff if I just haven't noticed.)

Possible examples: (PLEASE DO NOT CLICK THE NON-GOG LINKS... they may not be safe... in fact I'll remove the .dots from them to prevent the link from working automatically...)
In http://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/warcraft_1_and_2_expansions
newwebss Posts: "www imreplica com"
onlinme Posts: "www cnnfactory com for nike shoes"

What appears to be a bot named ##@@##@@ appears in many wishes linking to shoe sale sites and other stuff. (idk exactly what because I don't click the spam links.)

The bot shows up in http://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/warcraft_ii_tides_of_darkness I'm not sure exactly what it said though because the "Comment burried. Unhide." doesn't work when I click it.

1048jack11 suspiciously posts this in http://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/warcraft_iii_reign_of_chaos Could (In theory) be legit, but looks a lot like a bot, I'll leave it at those examples since I don't want to clutter this thread with an archive of spam. >_>

These only took me a couple of seconds to find, sadly the wishlist is infested with spam. T_T

I also haven't seen the 'options' > 'report as duplicate' take effect, but I may have missed it since a merged wish is a lot less easy to spot than spam to some strange 3rd-party site.

Perhaps its a feature still being worked on in the Community Wishlist(<span class="bold">Beta</span>)?

Indeed, there's a tonne of Nancy Drew and Sherlock games. It'd be great if the publishers would join on GOG and make them available.

It's not unknown. Just very, very rare.

Edit: something weird has happened on http://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/torment_tides_of_numenera where spam appeared to have been removed: a comment by a bluetext now appears instead with the name ##@@##@@ -- which is the name of a spambot, e.g. in a Feb. 25th post on http://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/doom

That makes me wonder whether the removal of the spam actually involved a database error.

I believe you, are you aware of any more spam that has been removed since Aug 2013?

It's actually really easy to handle the situation - spam is posted in the top entries (most voted this week) of the main Wishlist page, and on entries with a very high voting score. Keep those clean and you have spam comments under control. ;-)

I don't keep a record of where I've seen spam comments (my life is not quite that empty :-P), so I can't detect deletion unless there are non-spam comments commenting on spam comments that aren't there.

I think I have seen occasional spam on low-ranking wishes, though I've forgotten where. At least one spammer actually seems to be a human who writes mostly relevant comments with spam links appended to them, so he may not follow any wholly reliable pattern.

GOG staff does remove spam on wishlist when reported but you have to contact them thru support and post links to wishes and spambots involved. I've done so few times and support has eliminated the reported spam but not any I've not reported unfortunately. I don't think the report function actually reports spam to staff unfortunately but if post gets enough of them it'll get burried at least.

The funny thing is that the reason I guessed it isn't true. I knew 7 Cities of Gold was published by EA, and since we did have an EA release last week, I thought we'd get more EA games. This one though isn't published by EA, since it seems the developer has gotten the rights back.

The very first guess. Well done, JMich!

I wonder if there IS still some connection though, as I said here:
http://www.gog.com/forum/general/release_seven_cities_of_gold_commemorative_edition/post18

(you probably saw that at the time as yours is the post right below mine but 'public discussion' and all that)

No idea. I was going by this screenshot after all.

LOL that's better evidence than I usually have for these things - I usually rely on the Publisher and Developer lines on the Mobygames game description page!

Incidentally the Developer line reads:

'Developed by
Ozark Softscape, SEGA Interactive Development Division'

Sega? Co-deving an EA published game? Seems weird...

It was a classic after all...