[Announcement] Spam comments

[travelercomic]

They probably have a several accounts at a time set to say different things in some attempt to get past anything that might try to fight against spam.

[hannahlaine]

@travelercomic is right. This thing keeps coming in waves. It seems to have stopped for now, but I doubt we have seen the end of this bot... fingers crossed and knock on wood

[Greetings]

Maybe adding a filter that only allows accounts that are a day old to comment could help? (Until this is fixed.)

[michaelson]

Updated the parent post:

[3:30pm] We've blocked the main perpetrators and manually blocked and banned the accounts. There are a few spam accounts that fall outside of these main perpetrators that we're tracking and shutting down. We'll also looking into ways to remove the comments en masse to save creators time from individually blocking the spammers.

[nostalgicroxas]

we love you and your team

[kytri]

They all contain "amzza" That'd be the word I'd blacklist first.
sure they could change the URL but that's more complicated than just changing a random word.

[Greetings]

Thank you for being so quick to react! Will wait before deleting the comments then.

[unknown_user]

We'll also looking into ways to remove the comments en masse to save creators time from individually blocking the spammers.

@michaelson Please, don't delete comments for my comic https://tapas.io/series/The-story-of-how-humanity-has-thrown-itself-into-the-scrapyard
They are too frienly to be forgotten like this
This bot is my greatest fan!

[travelercomic]

Thank you for the hard work!

[nostalgicroxas]

The greatest fan would like and subscribe

[ThatFanwriter_EV]

lol, you've gotta point

[ThatFanwriter_EV]

And you've got an even better point!

[sefra114]

Thank you very much!

[UzukiCheverie]

oh god

has anyone checked up on deep fried pudge

please dear god tell me someone has checked up on deep fried pudge

(tho tbh it seems like it's mostly targeting novels from what i can tell? idk. glad it's being checked into so promptly but yeesh).

[ryoko]

They appear to have many 'friens'...

[kitkatxk]

I was the same nothing then i got like six in the same moment. then it stopped for one minute and did it repeatedly like 3-4 at a time every minute
It was making me want to rip my hair out.

[nostalgicroxas]

My friend's comic got hit too and she doesn't have many episodes

[UzukiCheverie]

yeah pudge of deep fried pudge (and lessons in mythology) has like 2000+ episodes so i do NOT envy them (or anyone else in the same boat who may have a lot of comics/novels/episodes/etc. who may have been hit lol)

and i say this as someone who has like 400+ accumulated episodes across all their work, 2000+ is a whole other ballpark entirely lol

[Kaylim]

2000+ episodes

2000+ friens....

Just thinking about the spam notifications for that gives me anxiety, much like your poor little doodle. Hot dang that's a lot episodes.

[JogVodka]

That explains why my stuff got spammed links