Why are there so many spam comments?

snowy 2021-04-02 11:46:44 UTC #4

They're dropping their "this is a great novel !" in comic's comment sections now. Lol.

Yorth 2021-04-02 11:48:41 UTC #5

That's a yikes from me...

Crusoe 2021-04-02 11:49:33 UTC #6

Yeah, tapas usually has systems in place to check for spam, but sometimes there's an uptick in it. Best to just block the users and try to ignore it.

crisyah 2021-04-02 12:05:05 UTC #7

That's the exact same one I got lmao!!!

Yorth 2021-04-02 12:08:10 UTC #8

Wow, it's nice to see a fellow "he did not just go there" author. We seem to be an increasingly common breed, lmao

cherrystark 2021-04-02 12:38:20 UTC #9

I think all the novelstar spam is sad. The spam comments even went as far as my inactive booksie account. I looked Novelstar up and it's a real app on the playstore. They were advertising the popular romance stuff: werewolves, mafia, billionaires, etc, but most of the reviews were able how few stories there were. A lot of authors are going to stay away before of their stupid spam comments.

Yorth 2021-04-02 12:45:15 UTC #10

They seem to have that growth at all cost mentality. If they had a dollar, they would much rather spend it on advertisement to get new users in than to develop their very veryyy buggy app. Just posting my story using their trash editor has been an absolute nightmare. It crashes at the most random clicks and touches.

cherrystark 2021-04-02 12:51:48 UTC #11

Yikes. I definitely agree, fix the app and then start advertising.

sushy00 2021-04-02 13:14:17 UTC #12

I haven't had those yet

Yorth 2021-04-02 13:16:23 UTC #13

wow, for a comic as large as yours that is seriously weird. I guess they target novels more than comics because that's what their website is for

therosesword 2021-04-02 14:58:32 UTC #14

Those "Novelstar" things are showing up everywhere.

therosesword 2021-04-02 14:59:52 UTC #15

For me, if companies advertise like that... nope, not going there. It's a total turn off.

C-Gamsby 2021-04-02 15:07:29 UTC #16

I got a comment like that, and I too was a flutter when I saw someone left a comment. Though it does say if I use the service I can 'make big bucks...'

Ordinaryaverageguy 2021-04-02 19:38:38 UTC #17

Haven't gotten that particular spam (yet) but I did get a flood once of comments on every episode... it was "come see my sexy website" spam.

Kaydreamer 2021-04-03 04:17:50 UTC #18

Is this just happening to novels, or is it happening to comics as well? I haven't had any such comments, and I dread receiving any. It sounds like a right pain in the bum.

cherrystark 2021-04-03 04:20:33 UTC #19

So far just novels I think. A lot of the comments start with something like "Oh wow! I wonder what's going to happen next" or "Oh no he didn't" before jumping into a short spiel about bringing our talent to novelstar.

Kaydreamer 2021-04-03 04:35:20 UTC #20

Icky. That's so frustrating... I hope Tapas may be able to incorporate some sort of keyword filter in their comments script which blocks comments containing words such as 'novelstar' in order to cut down on this spam.

cherrystark 2021-04-03 04:42:20 UTC #21

It would be nice but I doubt something like that can happen. The spammers would just change their code, like all the pornbot spam we got hit with a few months ago. Before novelstar, I remember seeing bots for x novel, y novel, stuff like that.

jkb4753 2021-04-03 04:58:06 UTC #22

I was not here for the pornbot spam. How did they get rid of it?

cherrystark 2021-04-03 05:02:51 UTC #23

I'm not sure, they probably just adapted the code. The important thing is block them and report issues like this to feedback@tapas.io. From my experience, reporting issues through those channels will help get it to the developers' queue a lot faster than posting general comments. With more examples, the faster they can fix it.