(And to brighten up this thread, a really long post that lays everything else in shadow)... Please notice the pun. It was funny, right? Oh, forget it.
Hm, we could be really draconian about it and automatically ban anybody we see making such comments, as they're obviously there to spam.
Really? (Notice how this is only word please, and mock my sarcasm)
I'm liking the idea of a minimum character limit more and more every time I check game comments.
Yes! Shoot those demented spammers in the head. (Sings a very nasty song)
could have a minimum word count rather than character
That would mean more coding, because then you would have to count the amount of spaces, and not just characters.
I think this idea isn't very bad, but the slight flaw is, that word count or characters, people could simply write gibberish like
ewkjgrfbadhj jhergvhbdvkqjehb ebhqerbvq,dnbv jkevbqerbv herqbvqbrv hjerqbhmedb,v hbvqebvmn,q jbvqbv,nqmds jheqgbhjeb jhvbqhjv qhjwvbqwhjb
And get through the filter and security. I mean, then mods would have a very good reason to kik people out and ban them, like Strop suggests:
Hm, we could be really draconian about it and automatically ban anybody we see making such comments, as they're obviously there to spam.
Draconian: Excessively harsh or severeYes, that's harsh, but if people wrote similar comments like my example up there, it would be a good reason. Gibberish is no excuse.
It also might improve feedback for authors, who don't want to see that spam, but nice posts with constructive criticism in there.
That softened my heart there. Authors really, really want criticism of any kind really, mostly good, but without bad one they wouldn't know how to make the game better next time.
if we put a 5word minimum
5 words? You gotta be kidding me! Ten or fifteen words!!! Otherwise it would reduce spam by about 2% because spammers could easily write 'good, bad, funny, macabre, stupid' and have a right laugh when they get through the security feature in as much time as previous.
It's been stated multiple times that the people who decide to go over the minimum character limit while spamming will be flagged.
So if I were a spammer and wrote 'My name is Bob and I live in the White House and I thought this game was good' it would be flagged? Not bad...
15+ pages of sheer spam for new games, or in popular games, it can amount to 50+
You have no idea how nasty comment spam can be. The words bad,good,funny,stupid,okay,cool,awesome,weird all become monotonic and have no more emotional meaning to non-spammers. In other words:
Definition of a spammer: Somone who has achieved to make simple words seem unrealistic because they use them so often in one word sentences they ruin the whole fun of seeing them.Long spam is worse than short spam.
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Imagine seeing that for a comment. It would give grandpa a heart attack. Now imagine that each game may have 10 of those things, and you could turn stone dead.
