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I always felt Disqus was trying to solve the issue of comment spam.

• hershel 13y ago
  How?
  • murtali 13y ago
    Authentication before commenting being the biggest. People have been trying to do link spamming on comments forever. Disqus attempts to legitimize and monetize it with their sponsored stories/links.
    • gingerlime 13y ago
      and then you get false positives. I was somehow trapped by their spam detection, even though my comments were totally legit, I've had a good 'track record' etc. It doesn't tell you anything about it, the post author wasn't notified either.
    • jtheory 13y ago
      Eh, all of the forum spam I get is from "users" who have actually created accounts and sometimes posted halfway legit comments (it's a music theory forum, and they obviously don't know anything about theory, but post something that tries to fake it) before starting to post spam. The best solution is removing the incentive (though I've had rel="nofollow" auto-added to all links since it was first proposed, to no avail...).