Tea & C.
Process To Join Broken, "Moderation" Not Working
My attempts to join Disqus to post comments on a website just failed. I did everything I was supposed to do multiple times. Entering the password twice exactly the same might have been the hang up. These days with long passwords, I need to be able to see them. Systems where you can't do that, like Disqus, are frustrating. There's no one in the room but me to see the password. What's the problem? Commenters on another website I frequent complain about Disqus. They have had trouble logging in and more. The same spammer will post the same spam a hundred times + over long periods of time. No one interferes. You wonder if the spammer pays Disqus or the website. In Spite of Disqus' Tracking IP Numbers, Professional Trolls & Shills Posting Under Multiple Names Are Not Stopped. One commenter is an unbelievably foul-mouthed misogynist troll. He also uses other identities to make it look like other people like him (a common tactic of professional trolls). He eventually was banned temporarily, but he and the and his sock puppets came back, same as before. One guy mercilessly trolled a popular commenter who had inside information on prominent people. He used many different related identities that were recognizable as him. For a long time he wasn't stopped. As on many sites, hordes of fake posters appear from nowhere to appear to care desperately about the Markles, furiously "arguing" about them on unrelated threads. I'll bet all the comments have a single IP number. There are also professional shills injecting divisive political insults into unrelated threads or claiming their neighbor died of a popular illness, etc. Some of this happens elsewhere, but it's interesting that Disqus tracks IP numbers but doesn't seem to use the info productively.