Yeah. Human beings are resourceful. If we try harder to block such comments, a few people will try harder to work around it. I think what we have now gets the point across. Complaints about the number of "+1" comments are far less common than they used to be.
If you see one person adding a lot of "+1"-type comments in projects that you care about, you might send them a brief personal email explaining that they are not being helpful. If you see someone really posting a *lot* of "+1" or other obviously valueless comment, feel free to report it here and we can ban their account and delete all their comments. Likewise for spamy comments. Thanks, jason! On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 7:39 AM, Yegor <[email protected]> wrote: > > That's awesome! Thanks. I don't want to experiment on anyone's > projects so I am not sure, but it seems that some people found a > workaround. Here are the samples that are getting through: > > PLEASE +1 > + 1 > + 1 * > > Courtesy of: http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=335 > > Yegor > > On May 18, 8:26 am, Jason Robbins <[email protected]> wrote: >> BTW, you might not notice the dialog box if you try it in your own >> project. The "+1" blocking rules do not apply to project members, >> because you trust them to be cooperative. >> >> Thanks, >> jason! >> >> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 7:00 AM, Nathan Ingersoll <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Hello Yegor, >> >> > We actually do exactly that kind of matching right now. Try adding a >> > +1 comment to an issue and you should get a popup preventing you from >> > proceeding if it's too short. This has been in place for a while now, >> > but projects that existed before this prevention will still have the >> > existing +1 comments. >> >> > Nathan >> >> > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Yegor <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> Hi, >> >> >> This is just a feature request. Many projects suffer from people >> >> posting useless comments on the issue list. Many people do not realize >> >> that they can just "star" an issue when they don't have anything to >> >> say. This annoys a lot of people who starred the issue because they >> >> keep getting notifications. This also reduces the number of votes an >> >> issue might have gained because frustrated developers unstar their >> >> issues and those who post "+1" don't even know about the feature. >> >> >> The box at the top of the comment box helps (BTW, I just realized that >> >> it has been added). But there is one more thing that could be done. >> >> When a comment is posted Google Code could parse the comment and check >> >> the length and the presence of string "+1". If the comment is too >> >> short and contains "+1" do not post the comment just yet. Instead, ask >> >> the user if they really want to post it instead of voting, explaining >> >> that they might annoy other users. >> >> >> Cheers, >> >> >> Yegor > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hosting at Google Code" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
