Ok, so i was looking at a users page (I wont mention names) And noticed they had a high number of comments, and like no forum posts. So I clicked on view all comments and they had about 15 pages of comments, and a large number of comments. Now if they had 1000 games rated ok, but if you add it all up, there is alot of comments that have never been awnsered to.
Now, This IS a suggestin. If you think someone is a spamer, thats a rather good way to check. i will go count the number of comments per page in a moment, but please help in the war on spam by doing this.
But this does not take into account people who delete some, most, or all of the comments that reach their profile and cannot apply to people who block their comments.
Posting more then once a game is spam. So there you go.
This is from an actually user right now, I wont say who unless a mod would like to know.
games rated: 1046 Comments: 3776 forum posts: 400
They have 14 pages of comments made to them, and there is 100 comments on every page. So that 1400 give or take a few. So subtract those comments from there total.
3776 - 1400 = 2373
Now subtract the amount of games rated, and say they made on comment on each one.
2373 - 1046 = Ok, i am bad at math, so you figure it out. Were are the rest of those comments? Over 1000 comments deleted o nthere profile? I dont think so.
Now do you understand what I am trying to show you?
But there is a fault to this... Some people have for a while deleted all comments on their profile, to keep it clean. Then eventually, they decide to stop doing so, for whatever reason. Also, they might just never have gotten a reply. I think I've made at least 50 comments that I haven't gotten a reply to, either because it wasn't needed or they didn't have time. There is no way of proving that they spammed their way to that many comments, so all this does is raise suspicion. Which is why I am against using this as a "tool". There's no proof.
Well... He is saying, that if people have posted many more comments than they have received as replies on their profile, they may have spammed a ghost account, or games. Did that help? :/
But I don't like this idea very much... Too many variables. They might just have gotten no reply. Though it does look suspicious when there's a big difference, there are no proofs.
Currently I have 1635 comments made on my profile, but I've only made 1557 myself... That's a lot of comments that I haven't replied to. And I think I've deleted all the spam...
Oh now i see. But what about games? What if they deleted comments? I already found the answers and i say no go. It would work if we didn't have games and the option to delete comments but that'll never happen.
