Hi everyone on MNC 🙂
I have noticed since Sunday that I’ve been losing Disqus upvotes (in small quantities) rather than gaining them from comments on discussions.
I was wondering as to whether anyone else has noticed this over the past day or two. I’m curious because nobody has deleted their account so those upvotes shouldn’t be going down.
Do you lose upvotes too?
I cannot vouch for the accuracy of any information below as I do not work for Disqus. I pieced it together from other comments and links I’ve accessed.
I have lost thousands of upvotes as well. According to what I’ve read, this has to do with deactivated user accounts. When an account is deactivated for whatever reason, a person loses the upvotes that had been created by those deactivated accounts. This policy is relatively old, but it only became widely noticeable after Disqus changed its model and ended most discussion channels (such as The Atlantic Discussions). I assume thousands of accounts were deactivated or otherwise fell into disuse as people migrated to other platforms. This is continuing to happen at a rapid clip. As I understand it, the reason for the removal of upvotes had to do minimizing the influence troll accounts had on the platform. A single “person” (troll or bot) controlling hundreds of accounts could effectively control the tenor of any discussion by upvoting (hundreds of times) a single comment using those accounts. One of the ways that Disqus ordered comments was by how much influence (upvotes and replies) a comment exerted on a discussion topic. Once troll/bot accounts were found and deleted, those upvotes were removed and the influence those accounts created diminished. We’re now seeing that play out for reasons that have nothing to do with controlling the influence of troll/bot accounts.
So I wouldn’t be too concerned with the loss of upvotes. It has nothing to do with your account, but with the change in direction Disqus decided to take. Apparently, Discuss staffers spent an inordinate amount of time dealing with trolls/bots and overly negative or offensive/hateful language coming out of these discussion channels and so they decided to shut them down. Again, I don’t work for Disqus and I cannot be certain how correct this information actually is. It certainly seems plausible enough.
Hi there George,
I am sorry we missed your comment.
Some of them make sense to me.
You should make your own OP with that analysis and if you do so, I will gladly publish your OP and send the invites. Let me know.
Another thing that happened to those who lost the entire upvotes, it makes them a low rep and it’s hard for them to post comments on the channels they aren’t trusted user. It does affect the account.
Could it be due to trolls downvoting?
I wouldn’t think so when some posters have lost hundreds of thousands of upvotes. That would take a whole team full time for all those this has happened to.
Yeah, good point – your run of the mill drive-by trolling isn’t exactly what I had in mind. Something more along the line of some person – or persons – with a grudge, for whatever reason, who’s trying to throw monkey wrenches in the machinery when they can. An unhealthy, obsessive thing,
Some users have lost all their upvotes. I’m steadily losing mine…I used to have around 8000. This has been an issue for months but isn’t being resolved. How can someone make comments and have a whole bunch of upvotes from ACTIVE users yet still show zero?
Yes, I lost over 200,000 upvotes.
Downvotes have returned annonymous downvotes is what there are now and another cause could be people closing their accounts due to the recent changes in Disqus…I have heard of that changing upvotes in the past
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Blocked.
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I have gone from 100,000 upvotes to -2,000,000 in 6-8 months and that is not some fluke it is targeted censoring period!
I know roughly how many upvotes I’ve had taken off so as I like celebrating milestones in terms of upvotes recieved, I can add on whatever they’ve taken off so the celebrations and achievements will continue from my end!
😀
At least the comment count doesn’t go down or that would be taking the mick! :O
Has the upvote bot hit most people here?
Yes, we got getting downvotes but I notice other friendly channels got the same too.
It has stopped since about three days here but I don’t stop losing hundreds of upvotes everyday….:(
I haven’t noticed upvotes diminishing but I have been getting downvotes on some sites along with others.
I am glad to know that the downvoting does not only happen here.
Good morning, Jae.
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That’s beautiful Murn, Good Morning to you but it’s after noon here and rainy.
Good afternoon there, Jae,
I am sorry for missing this comment.
Have a wonderful weekend…*Smile.
That’s fine Murn. You have a good weekend as well.
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I missed this one.
Sorry, Jae and Sweet morning to you…:))
Murn, you keep missing me😢…lol.
It’s fine, I know it happens, I miss some myself. 😁
Unfortunately upovotes are constantly being lost and I don’t know what the cause is …
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Good Morning.
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Pure Beauty !
Thank you Lillym. Yes it is, I like posting them because they are so majestic. Have a good day.
Seems the bots’ friends are hungry and need to take upvotes to feed them..=D
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Good morning dear Murm !!! https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/1cfd4c0a3c49fe74dc3f82c1854b0f96693acba623f9101bb8c8c5a6a4ac01cb.jpg
Good morning Dear George,
Good to see you…*Smile
That’s lovely like always.
Thank you…:))
Awwwwww!! He’s cute !
My kind of rooster.
Good am/pm, Murn.
Hey Ibis..
It’s pm here…:))
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Sleep tight, have a great night.
Not sure if what I’ve read is true or not. So.. some believe high number of upvote posters are being attacked / targeted by some unknown source, as many of the victims are lean conservative.
My loss of over 200,000 began before Disqus began its changes, and the loss continues.
Because you’re a liar and Nazi!😂😂😂😂😂😊😊😊😊
Here you are again…lol. So you are at least two years old…lol
I have no upvotes. Watch how much I care.
https://youtu.be/obTlQRtjWzw
Go Timmy !👍
I haven’t noticed but I know I get a lot of downvotes. Oh well.
Why so many, I wonder?
My curiosity was piqued, so I skimmed through a few of your comments. You’re getting downvoted for some pretty innocuous things! Even this comment has a couple of downvotes!
What gives? Did you break a mirror over a lepruchaun’s head while singing the national anthem backwards or something? I don’t get it.
Yes, I’ve noticed you’ve been getting so many downvotes.
I am sorry to see that.
In answer to your question, yes, you are not alone. This is my 2nd id with this problem of losing upvotes, another person I follow got hit the same day to your attack.
The theory I am about to describe is only suspicions and no direct knowledge, so please liberally salt.
The targets and timing of automated attacks feel, well “reportish”. If you have ever been in corporate America and run reports on certain days looking for certain characteristics of data, you’ll know what I’m talking about.
Conservatives tend to use Disqus something more like Twitter than was probably originally intended. Thus we develop cross followers (people we like to read and who read us), rather be regular commenters on websites.
In other words, conservatives (and reactionaries) generally develop genuine communities with Disqus. Over time, that will lead to outstanding reputations (this is calculated number that lives in the background of the system), as followers and upvotes to post ratios are the obvious choice to measure which posters to trust. Trolls do not generate followers and are inconsistent in upvotes.
So you are Disqus, with a comment system you’re trying to sell to advertisers and websites. You pull up a report of the highest rep users for this quarter to show to somebody important. These are examples of the kind of high quality person/commenter that use your system. You discover almost all of them are conservatives. Not only the more acceptable liberal conservatives, but deporables and/or even the dreaded dissident right discussing topics that are absolutely taboo and/or questioning base assumptions of modernity.
The easiest way to solve the problem of all the wrong people with the high reputations is simply to back down the counters that are being used to generate that reputation number in the first place. There’s no touching upvotes on the actual comments, just playing with numbers in the background. Thus it’s hard to trace and difficult to point to obvious evidence. It also has the benefit of specifically targeting those wrong people who post in the system. It makes it so that they have to create new ids all the time and/or not appear on the more general websites that are Disqus’ target.
I suspect that until left leaning liberals figure out how to like each other, conservative users and Disqus have for the moment settled into trench warfare over the use of the system as it stands today.
Thats the best overview of of the unvoting I’ve seen. It also explains why many big media sites dropped Disqus and opted for clunky, dated comment systems that restrict interaction and community.
I suspect that until left leaning liberals figure out how to like each other
They don’t seem to do they? Their problem is also more fundamental, the most vocal leftlibs are saying things that majority regular people don’t like and thus they don’t pick up many votes from that wider, less political, population.
Leftlibs on Disqus should be carrying all before them as they’re saying what the MSM/political complex says 24/7. The fact it doesn’t fly implies it’s actually a weak position in the eyes of most people.
Is there perhaps a bright side to the diminishing upvote totals? I think that there might be.
Consider: without reliable totals by which to gauge a poster’s popularity, we are left with only our reactions to the specific comment at hand. And isn’t that how it should be anyway?
If a popular person says a stupid thing, it is still a stupid thing, regardless of their “reputation”. Likewise, if an unpopular person says a wise thing, it is still a wise thing. Perhaps up-vote totals never should have been counted in the first place.
Miss Amy, kudos on an excellent point. Rhetoric is defined as the art of persuading others to your point of view, or at least making them think. Is this not what Disqus is really supposed to be about? If we wind up with lots of friends and become popular, that’s a side benefit.
Harry, all I can say is it’s unfortunate you have joined this club. For some of us, this has been going on for six months. Before I got hit by the downvote bot, I had a quarter million upvotes. While I refuse to check my stats now because I don’t want to give these scoundrels the satisfaction, a friend of mine did check my stats and I’m now at negative thirty million upvotes. This is why I don’t even have an upvote counter anymore.
While I suspect this is a site that would prefer to avoid politics, this issue demands that subject be touched on. The people doing this are those opposed to Trump. Since they can offer nothing in the way of rational or moral arguments to defend their positions, they must censor, insult, terrorize, or engage in downright criminal behavior to try to stop the rest of us from speaking truth to power.
Ergo, my best advice to you is to carry on since the sole purpose of putting a downvoting bot on you is to discourage you from posting. I can only hope you do your best while our post-American detractors do their worst. Hang in there, brother.
I know about a fair amount of people who aren’t American, don’t get involved with politics, have private profiles who have also been targeted by the bot. There have been so many theories thrown around, about channels, about certain groups but none that have been proved. It is time that Disqus resolves this problem.
Yes, I know some foreign nationals getting hammered by downvoting too. I used “American” because I don’t claim to speak for other groups. If you’d like, you can use the term ethnonationalist.
American is fine!
Shirley, actually I think all countries are fine; every group should have the right to live according to its own values and traditions without permission or a by-your-leave from outsiders.
It is another ideological group I have problems with. But, again, enough about politics at this site.
Thank you for your reply 🙂
Just wanted to confirmIs it that you don’t have an upvote counter now because it went into negative territory?
Harry, what happens is that if or when you hit zero upvotes and start going into negative territory, you lose your vote counter.
Let me hasten to add though that you don’t really lose your upvotes; if you check my profile, you’ll see my posts have plenty of upvotes; it’s only the counter that won’t show them.
The only inconvenience is that it lowers our reputation scores into the nether regions. So, to post at most sites requires a moderator to whitelist you. I’m sure Miss Murn or another mod would be happy to do this for you; they had to do it for me.
Ooh, my upvote counter has disappeared as well! I guess that I’m in the negative now, too.
In a perverse sort of way, I relish this. I’ve never had a bad reputation before – it feels funny, but also thrilling, to walk on the dark side for a bit.
*Shrug* Try to take joy wherever you can find it, I guess.
Miss Amy, again, the important thing is not to let those incapable of working and playing well with others to win. You hang in there and keep posting!
As for “bad reputations”, if your only bad reputation comes from Disqus, I think I can assure you that your reputation is solid with the rest of us.
I went negative this week. Makes me proud to be a member of such an illustrious club.
Petronius, if we were to divide Disqus ideologically into two groups, this downvoting is occurring almost exclusively in one of those groups. It’s because the group being downvoted has come to be in control of the narrative–something liberalism can’t tolerate.
Since Robin, Brazos, and myself were some of the first to be downvoted, we do take a kind of pride in it. It means this group considers people like us to be a threat.
To which group are you referring? As near as I can tell, you and I are near opposites, politically speaking. Yet, here we both are, with negative numbers.
I propose that this is likely not based on ideology. My guess would be that this is being done primarily for someone’s amusement. If that is the case, it would be far better to ignore it than to point fingers.
Miss Amy, we probably are on opposite sides. If, let’s say, the left is being hit, it’s something new. According to somebody in the know, I was one of the first hit with the downvoting bot about six months ago. There was only one person on the left who was part of that group, and that was because he also identifies as a race realist.
While I don’t wish the downvoting on anybody, maybe if this other group starts getting hit too, something will be done. Thus far, Disqus has done absolutely nothing.
My point here isn’t to cast aspersions; I seriously doubt anybody here has anything to do with it. My point is that unless we’re here for upvotes, it hardly means we can’t post.
I am not “in the know” nor, as far as I know, is anyone that I know. (Is that a tongue-twister, or just repetitious? Both, maybe.) I do converse with plenty of leftists (birds of a feather, you know…) and some of them were getting hit several months ago. So, add that to your data set if you like…
…or don’t, because you are absolutely right that the numbers (or lack thereof) do not stop us from conversing. Perhaps I just wanted to reassure you that I, a bloody pinko leftist, would never run about, down-voting willy-nilly. I might, however, engage you in heated debate one of these days. 😉
I’ve apparently irritated some more liberals. This account is now in a downward spiral. You are exactly right..we are threatening their narrative and I don’t plan on shutting up, so the downvoting is an effort in futility as it just makes me more determined than ever to engage the idiot class.
Robin, to respect the wishes of our hosts here, I’m trying to keep the conversation as apolitical as possible.
Oops..sorry.
I forgot too. It’s why I deleted my first reply to you.
I hope you hang in there.
BTW, I’m using my original account. While I refuse to check my stats because I don’t want to give whoever is doing this the satisfaction, my upvote tally is now negative thirty million, and my reputation is negative three thousand. Other than having to get whitelisted, it hasn’t hurt anything.
In fact, it did some good. Some fellow over at The Federalist had run out of arguments. So, he retorted that I have thirty thousand posts and not a single upvote. Therefore, I’m a troll to be dismissed. The fact that the post he responded to had over twenty upvotes didn’t escape the notice of other posters.
My old account is over a billion downvotes. If this profile goes that way, it’ll be toast. Looks like I’m losing a couple thousand a day. The other was losing 100,000 a day. I don’t understand why Disqus can’t put a stop to it. It’s been going on for months now.
Funny..it doesn’t say you have zero, it just doesn’t show any.
It would be a very simple matter to identify this obvious abuse and put in exceptions. But that requires the will to correct this and skilled human intervention
Matt you are right inadvertently they have given us a stand out kind of profile. Too funny along with their entire game plan.
The fake news dam holding back the truth has been breached and the mental midgets in the Democrat party are psychotically desperate.
Go back to your original Robin.
The channel owner is not anything close to the targeted group from six months ago. probably at least half the people who comment in this channel are not either.
As my votes were disappearing, I just closed it, and opened a new one. I don’t care if my account is old or not. Having said that, I did get my facebook account shut down for “Possible fraud” after I went to Adam Schiffs facebook, and exposed his lies! LOL
Fighter, I’m not sure what being a “channel owner” has to do with anything since only one of that original group was a channel owner.
As for Faceberg, the less said about that, the better. The only thing I’ve ever used my account for is to post at sites like Yahoo so I can oppose everything Mark Zuckerberg stands for.
A while back someone targeted commenters at a couple channels to spite the channel owners.
As for FB, i had an account i used a few times, but when i went to Adam Schiffs FB, and exposed the lies, FB locked me out of my account for “possible fraud”
I wonder if you & most of the others affected here are conservatives, Christians. Google, disqus, Twitter, will ultimately censor all of us. Paul Joseph Watson has a video called “Chinese Social Credit Score Prevents 2.5 Million ‘Discredited Entities’ From Buying Plane Tickets.”
Miss Cynthia, another commenter here just told me that apparently the left is being hit now, so it’s no longer an ideological thing.
The way I look at those who downvote me, it’s like insults; both mean your opponent has nothing intelligent to say; it’s a graceless way of admitting they’ve lost the argument.
I wonder: how do you view the upvote, sans commentary?
One could see it as affirmation of one’s position, but it could also be an affirmation of one’s self – that is, a way of saying “I like you,” that is not necessarily tied to the content of one’s comment.
But could it nonetheless be considered graceless? Does it not lack the grace of an actual reply? Or is it more like a smile – graceful even in its brevity?
Miss Amy, I see the upvote as an outward display of an inner belief that we’re one group, and that we need to work for the common, as opposed to our personal, good. And since most of this crowd has long since ceased to have an upvote display, I think this belief is sincere.
Of course, upvotes can mean different things to different groups……
Miss Cynthia, if you want to post at Breitbart, what you may want to consider is writing posts the censors will love, and they should whitelist you. I post at the Fderalist and OANN regularly, and have never had any problems save from the occasional censor.
Mr. Dunnyveg, my concern is censorship from spam filters set too tight; and you mention censorship through site moderators. I’ve appreciated them pulling me out of spam; but perhaps you’ve noticed personalities and abuse of power.
Since I’ve been wondering about what words trigger the censoring software at other sites, this might be a good subject for an OP.
Miss Murn, I’ll write up an OP in the morning on this. If you’d like to cross post it here, please let me know.
Excellent idea, Mr. Dunnyveg. I will look forward to everyone comparing notes.
Dear Mr. Dunnyveg,
That would be an honor to have your non-politic OP on this site.
Please feel free to submit it. I’ll publish it and send the invites.
And in a cowardly way!
I don’t care about my upvote count or reputation statistics. But as a good citizen, I try to upvote. I guess it helps.
I’m a software engineer. And detest jerks writing bots. It takes a conscious evil to do this…and is a sad comment on humanity.
Anything ever invented or provided by God is abused by some jerks. Man I’d love to deliver an azz beating to such folks. Contrary to modern pop culture fiction…an azz beating often cures idiocy.
😉
Lol Imperator funny post 😛
☑️ well said !
It’s been going on for a while across sites from what I hear. I don’t track them, and I’m not an upvoter (I tell someone if I like their comment) and never a downvoter.
I guess smiling and loving memes to replace upvotes will be better.
I never downvote either, I don’t see any benefit for doing it.
Thank you everyone for contributing and sharing your input. I’m sorry to hear it’s been going on for months with some posters.
It’s almost like Disqus taking away upvotes from the your “bank” without your permission which is disappointing but that doesn’t stop us from enjoying the discussions on here.
Once again thank you all 🙂
You are very welcome, Harry and thank you for posting.
Many lost their entire upvotes, they even got thousands of negative upvotes, some of them were very upset and sad but some are proudly wear it and stay commenting although they would have to ask to be white listed on the channels they like to comment on, otherwise their comments were auto spammed.
So you are not alone, just enjoy commenting and enjoy the interaction with nice people.
Did your votes stabalize?
Unfortunately not Claire, they’re still dropping.
Are you expecting to have problems posting as your numbers go down? Are you going to start a new avatar?
I’m going to continue posting regardless and there shouldn’t be any problems with posting.
If by new avatar you mean a new account, I will be keeping this one.
Yes, new account. I’m glad it won’t affect your posting ability. It will be interesting to see how this resolves.
Knowing Disqus it probably won’t resolve lol!
Today’s been exactly 5 years since my first Disqus post and I ain’t letting this stop me from celebrating this achievement 🙂
Congrats, Harry! Thanks for sharing that. 🎈
Thanks Claire I hope to make a thread on it later 🙂
About 2-3 months before Disqus eliminated the “in house” or, self owned channels, someone invented the up-vote elimination bot. It hit several dozen people, or more.
The elimination went on automatic, and 24 hours a day.
While it didn’t take the same amount from each person, it was consistent with how many.
This led to the belief that they hit a certain article comment section, and depending on how many comments each person had, they would be hit more or less.
I heard that the bot kept going even after the channels vanished.
90% of the people hit were conservatives,
A few speculated that it was a rogue employee as a parting shot before he left the Disqus company, but the bot kept going with the new company that bought disqus.
My account was among the ones hit, so I just deleted that account, and opened a new one. It has no effect on me since I don’t care if my account is one day old, or ten years.
If people like Murn are now getting hit, then something has changed, or a second person/entity formulated a new bot. One would think that Disqus has the ability to eliminate these things
I am not an expert on this, nor on computing. There is a guy who goes by the name doctor Thomas who seems to understand all this, and actively tried to get to the bottom of it. I am not sure how to find him right now.
Coincidentally I ran across him earlier. disqus dot com/by/DrThomasAquinas/
That’s the guy!
I just left him a message to come take a look
The downvoters don’t seem to discriminate now as we all get the downvotes..:))
The way Disqus has functioned as of late, I’ve given up on trying to make sense of upvotes and downvotes.
every 2 or 3 hours, i lose 100 upvotes.
if there was a way to hide the upvote counter, i’d use it and stop thinking about it
Welcome to Crazytown. ;P
Hi Red Rose. Disqus made the down voting active on the user side which will mess with your total up(s). You’re more at risk because of your open profile. Your ratio is still good and the folks that know you, still know you.
i lose upvotes at a super-human regularity evenly spread out over 24/7. it looks more like a bot than a lot of human toiling at clicking downvotes. (poor downvote workers are slaving away hard at achieving nothing)
but really i don’t care about my ratio, ratio or spams are claimed to determine your rep. but it doesn’t. a friend of mine had 48,000 upvotes, ratio 14:1, only a few spams and a medium rep. people with much lower stats get high rep.
rep. is random, irrational and irrelevant. if comments disappear, we stop making them on those channels/sites and stick to those sites where we are trusted.
we don’t get paid to be on disqus and we won’t change the world by commenting on disqus, the only thing we get is a nice feeling from seeing upvotes on our notifications page, the same as somebody telling us we look nice (thank you, smile)
upvote counter should be deleted, downvote option with it, by disqus, for its own sake, why are we here at all if not for that endorphin thing? who will allow themselves to be spat at anonymously all the time for nothing?
Things would be on a level playing field if the downs voters were also identified in our notifications. I am sure our keepers will never let that happen.
yes, that’s what i have been thinking too
but i don’t see as many downvotes on my comments as i am losing them
How’s it going? Right now you’re at 1070 comments • 8085 votes. Have the votes stopped disappearing?
hello Cynthia. no, they are still going down, lost about 3200, a little over that including the upvotes that weren’t added.
despite closing the profile, that makes no difference, and no visible downvotes.
well, it doesn’t matter anymore, i don’t care if it goes to zero or minus, i worry though about how disqus lets this happen
In the 16 hrs since I posted, you’re down to 7687 votes, almost 400. What do you mean by “closing that file:” From where are you conversing with me? Are the accounts attached on your computer?
no, closing the profile page, so people don’t see what i do. but it makes no difference, the losing upvotes doesn’t come from getting downvotes.
yeah, all big tech has a bad attitude towards their customers. i have a lot of complaints about microsoft because of windows 10. FB, twitter, don’t bother me because i have never been on them, gmail and google search i don’t use, chrome browser neither, just youtube without a log-in. but yeah, disqus has the same attitude. they think we MUST use their services because they are a cartel (they are wrong) and in the end it looks like communism. corporate capitalism looks like communism just like rule by pigs looks just like rule by farmer in the end of Orwell’s Animal Farm.
Looking forward to seeing you in happier times, Rose. Peace.
in fact i can’t find any downvotes at all over the comments i have made over the last few months
they do show with a number on other people’s comments though
i am not even sure that downvoting is the problem with me
maybe just bad tech by disqus
A lot of folks with sock accounts bailed and their upvotes went with them. The showing of downvotes is new in the US and might be a slow roll out to your area. Nice chatting with you, take care.
the big upvoters (of mine) are all still there, that can’t be it (i thought about that yesterday and checked)
i can see downvotes on other people’s comments but not on my own
ok, thanks for your thoughts, have a good one
I’ve lost a few thousand myself. It’s been getting whittled down for a couple of months now. Someone may have wet their diaper.
Most assuredly, Daniel Ha wears Depends.
I would really like it if Disqus showed who is downvoting. They used to show that years ago.
IKR?
I’ve been active on Disqus since 2013, this is a new account, and I remember “back in the day” 2013 you could see who the downvoters were. I think there is a lot of abuse in anonymous commenters using the downvote to damage other commenters rep scores so they can’t post.
I don’t know about not being able to post anymore, but I certainly wouldn’t like that. How messed up is that?
I have never noticed , I don’t look at my upvote figure. That said , these type of things have been ongoing with disqus for so long its not funny . My opinion is it all helps makes upvotes quite irrelevant. Tbh all they indicate to me is an acknowledgment that someone read my comment or just a courtesy thing when replying
Please can a moderator send invites for this discussion, thanks.
My original account @murn_disqus:disqus
is still losing hundreds of upvotes everyday until now.
It has about 66,000. upvotes about last two weeks and you can see what’s left now.
The last time I checked a few weeks back I was still loosing around six thousand a day on my first account. It started slowly in May and then speeded up. My second also got hit by the bot a few days after opening it.
I don’t mind loosing the votes, the big problem is the rep – with a low rep one gets stuck in spam and pending which ruins the rep further if it’s not cleared by moderators.
after being banned from several channels for no reason, i decided to only comment on channels where i knew and like the mods or on rare occasions a single comment and if it got stuck, not to care
Same here! Unfortunately this does take some fun out of Disqus, can’t write a spontaneous comment on sites that I’m not a trusted user anymore because is gets stuck or marked as spam.
i agree. but i divide it like some channels where i feel safe and the rest where i just throw in what i like and who cares if it gets deleted.
i used to be banned on this channel too but it looks like the bad mod has gone and on top i saw merlin is a mod here, so that’s good because he is cool and can help when needed.
I added you as trusted user on my two blogs so if you ever drop in you won’t have a problem. Good luck, I hope Disqus will solve the bot problem but am not optimistic.
thanks
which ones are your blogs? i saw you before on “the other thing”
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I didn’t know that is your new account.
I am sorry that happened to you too. I don’t go to many channels but when I see new channels belong to someone I know, I would have to ask them to white list me too, just in case my upvotes will go negative.
The reason I made that new account apart from creating the new site was also to get ready anytime I get low rep from losing upvotes on this account. I still don’t understand why Disqus let this to happen.
I don’t either, they should of solved this a long time ago. It’s good that you have started building up a new account. Rep is important to be able to post freely. Good luck!
Same to you Shirley.
Good luck with your new account too.
I have added you new account to the trusted user list.
That is wonderful and thank you.
Please add me on your both sites.
Yes, you need to moderate your thread.
Actually this topic is rather late as people have been losing upvotes since months now.
My account has been losing thousands of upvotes since the last 6 months and it’s still happening till date.
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Murn, one of my posts to Red Rose is “pending.” Would you scoop me out of spam? Thanks 🌼
Hi Cynthia,
I am sorry for taking so long to get back.
Mods have released your pending comment and you have been added on the trusted user list. Pending won’t happen again unless the auto filtering catch the restricted words.
Thanks, Murn!
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