[Announcement] Spam comments

[ryoko]

[ThreeeTreees]

I'm just refreshing my notifications to see when I get more friens

[mitchrandom]

Well, personally they were commenting on my comic continuously for about a 2.5 hour period every few minutes or so. Then they stopped for the first time about a half hour ago. I've been refreshing the page and still nothing. There were a total of 19 comments (18 I blocked + 1 I deleted), and my comic currently has 70 episodes (including the unpublished ones).

I guess I'll see what happens there.

[Tamachii]

Roughly ended up at one comment per episode. Welp.

[boondogggle]

They stopped commenting on my comics because I turned off commenting, not because I deleted them.

[travelercomic]

Yeah I just can't be assed to do that for every update lol

[Greetings]

It hasn't stopped, but significantly slowed. (Getting one comment every other minute)

[mitchrandom]

Oh look at that, I just got four at exactly the same time. Huh.

[ryoko]

It's spelling is getting better...it's learning....skynet-chan?

[wrentemple]

I was midly excited at the engagement for a moment(I'd just posted a chapter and my phone kept going off) but then I saw the account names >, >

It's babba jii 2: electric boogaloo

[AliasAlias]

oh no, you're right, it does say friends now

[travelercomic]

They're still our friens deep down.
I wonder if that means whoever is behind the bot uses the forums? tbh I don't know much about how bots work though so I could be talking out my ass lol

[Kaylim]

oh no, you're right, it does say friends now

It's evolving!

I had no new spam comments for 30 minutes. And now I got three within the same second.

I wonder if that means whoever is behind the bot uses the forums

I had wondered too if they had come here and seen us making fun of being "friens", and decided they'd better use spellcheck haha. So if you're reading this amzza, thanks for the funny memes and false hopes. I thought people were actually commenting on my story!

[SoenKai]

I wasn't even aware, this was a thing I could do! Thank you for your post about it!

[mitchrandom]

It reminds me a lot of how YouTube bots work. They usually say almost the same thing ("Great video! Let's be YouTube friends! Here's a shady link!")

[DarkChibiShadow]

Thanks for letting us know! Hoping all gets settled quickly, and good to know about the blocking.

[nostalgicroxas]

How the heck do you block them when none of them are the same account?!

[mitchrandom]

Pretty much the exact same thing happened to me.

[travelercomic]

yup got a whole bunch at once, no correlation.

[AliasAlias]

I had the same. is the bot creator watching??