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General discussion (archive)Does GOG Ever Delete Review Spam?(35 posts)(35 posts)
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Posted July 12, 2013
Even with the absurd min/maxing of the game reviews, I still like to periodically read them. I almost always find SPAM posts in the reviews and mark them as such, but it seems these are never removed. I'm not referencing reviews I disagree with or even where someone rants about not being able to run the game. Blatant go to this malicious website to get ripped off type posts never seem to get removed by GOG staff.

Why? Is it really that much work?
Posted July 12, 2013
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Negatus: work?
Qu'est-ce que c'est?
Posted July 12, 2013
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Negatus: ...
I agree, there is too much spam amongst what actual GOG customers have written. I don't know if something like a Captcha might help, but I'd like to see GOG allow some of the four or five star forum members have access to the reviews so they can clean them up (if the staff are too busy to do that).
Posted July 12, 2013
Obviously not, I'm still here.
Posted July 12, 2013
A CAPTCHA and a filter between people actually owning the GOG version of the game they're reviewing or not would go a long way to help the review section of this site.
Posted July 12, 2013
From the looks of it (some are reported by over 50 people), they don't - ever.

From time to time, I report the actual spam but it doesn't seem to make a difference.

I wish GOG would clean up this mess - not only does it make the whole rating system on the game card(s) completely unreliable, but most importantly it makes GOG look indifferent to keeping their site clean and tidy.
Posted July 12, 2013
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Nirth: A CAPTCHA and a filter between people actually owning the GOG version of the game they're reviewing or not would go a long way to help the review section of this site.
Good god NO! Not a Captcha!
I detest those things with a passion.
Why is it MY job to prove that I am human. I think of those things much the way a lot of people on here think of DRM.
Besides which I can seldom get them these days - they started off just random letters at odd angles, now they are just a mess.
Posted July 12, 2013
I agree some are ridiculously hard but it's easy to make them recognizable by a human but not by a spam bot, of course they won't work against human spammers.

And I only meant for posting a review, not posting on the forum. Do you post reviews that often that one CATPCHA per review would bother you? (assume that they would use a picture of letters and numbers that you realize what they're in a second after your browser rendered it)

Anyway, I think the filter between GOG version/not is more important because it would be fun to find people with nostaglia glasses who claim they don't have them, mainly because I usually read reviews for amusement, never as evidence for a potential good purchase.
Posted July 12, 2013
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tinyE: Obviously not, I'm still here.
TinyP, you lousy spamer, you've been asked a question.
Maybe you'd be kind enough to answer instead of spamming other topics?
Posted July 12, 2013
Maybe something where a certain number of spam reports automatically puts the reviews on the last page or even automatically deletes them?

I like tfishell's idea of having certain long-time GOG members being able to remove reviews marked as spam. As GOG grows perhaps we might even see community moderators. :P
Posted July 12, 2013
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tinyE: Obviously not, I'm still here.
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Novotnus: TinyP, you lousy spamer, you've been asked a question.
Maybe you'd be kind enough to answer instead of spamming other topics?
I'm totally confused here. What am I missing?
Posted July 12, 2013
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tinyE: What am I missing?
The Cat Lady. Or do you already have her?
Posted July 12, 2013
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Nirth: And I only meant for posting a review, not posting on the forum.
Yeah, I haven't seen much forum spam; almost all of it has been review spam.
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HypersomniacLive: most importantly it makes GOG look indifferent to keeping their site clean and tidy.
Exactly.
Post edited July 12, 2013 by tfishell
Posted July 12, 2013
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tinyE: I'm totally confused here. What am I missing?
You think you have a monopoly on being confusing? :) Read a couple posts back and you'll know everything :)
Posted July 12, 2013
Sadly, it looks like they don't remove reviews marked as spam. I don't know why, maybe they don't have time, but it can be quite frustrating to see so many spam reviews. Maybe they only remove reviews if it does have a certain amount of reports as spam, but they don't do anything with it until then. However, it looks like only a few people reads reviews, so there's not enough reports.
Or maybe they simply don't bother with reviews, as too few people reads them, so it's not important for them to clean the gamecards' pages.
But these "reviews" can be quite annoying, especially if you read reviews for more games.
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