Comments Automatically Labeled Spam?

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   multimasteryposted 7 years ago

   I've found several comments from visitors to my hub that have been automatically labeled by the system as spam, so it seems.  But when I read some of the comments they are actually relevant and really not spam in my opinion.  And the thing is that I don't even know the comment is there unless I happen to just pull up a hub and see it there.  I have missed a lot of useful comments this way.  An email notification for suspected spam comments would be nice but I never get an alert.  I just discover most of them weeks later in the "spam slammer" guilty or not.  Has anyone else had this problem?

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      LiamBeanposted 7 years agoin reply to this

      I do believe there needs to be a little more work done on the comments alert system.
      
      I do know if I get comments from members. All I have to do is log in and the number and content of comments will be shown on the left.
      
      If the commentator is NOT a member then I likely won't see the comment unless I go looking for it.
      
      This was particularly bad when a non-member tacked roughly thirty comments on the roughly thirty of my hubs, advertising some service or other. I got no alerts on any of them and I had to go to every hub I'd written so I could delete them.
      
      It was so bad that I briefly considered ending my writing here...for good.

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         WryLiltposted 7 years agoin reply to this

         I've had probably a hundred or more non member comments especially on high traffic hubs - it always shows up on my main page.

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            LiamBeanposted 7 years agoin reply to this

            Most comments appear when I log in, but not all. I'm not sure how commentators are falling off of the RADAR, but those that do are typically problematic.
            
            Also, I do not approve comments from people who have obviously not read the hub or whose names are links to external sources.

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               WryLiltposted 7 years agoin reply to this

               As long as the comment is relevant and adding to the hub, I approve those with their names as links to external sources.
               
               The comments box allows for a web address so I consider that fine.
               
               However if they put a link in their address, unless highly relevant and with a quality comment, I deny it.

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         multimasteryposted 7 years agoin reply to this

         Wow!

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      ankigarg87posted 7 years agoin reply to this

      This problems also comes to me. In hubpages some keywords in the comment box then it is treated as spam.

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      IzzyMposted 7 years agoin reply to this

      I have found one or two that are exactly as you describe. Valid, relevant comments that I accepted when I found them. Most marked spam are spam all the same.

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      brakel2posted 7 years agoin reply to this

      I have found comments on my hubs from visitors, and their name leads to a bad website. I deleted one, but it came back somehow, and I deleted it again. The comment was ok, but I thought it was spam due to the bad website. I have had visitors try to leave comments on my hub, and  they are not allowed to, they tell me. So, I guess things can get quirky. I'm just glad to be a member of hubpages.

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   Cagsilposted 7 years ago

   Not had that problem.

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   WryLiltposted 7 years ago

   I have heard this mentioned before, although I don't know if there's any solution.
   
   I personally don't often check my hubs - there are just too many so I may have missed some comments if what you say is true.

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   rmrposted 7 years ago

   I've found quite a few comments that were automatically flagged. Some of them were comments that I had previously approved. I even had one hubber email me to ask why I had deleted their comment because, once they're flagged like that, they disappear until you moderate them.

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   multimasteryposted 7 years ago

   Well sounds like this is really a technical issue that needs to be dealt with.  Thank you for commenting.  Anyone else? Please voice your comments issues/experience in this thread.  Thanks.

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   pylos26posted 7 years ago

   Spam is good...But it needs frying.

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