Kent S Anx

Falsely tags legitimate commenters as spammers

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Updated by user Dec 04, 2019

Update 12/4/19: No one from Disqus has contacted me. The comments falsely flagged as spam are still flagged. The false indication that they are working on the problem is still there and still a bald-faced lie.

Original review Nov 04, 2019
As many people have noted in the Discuss Disqus channel, Disqus tags some users as spammers for no discernable reason. Once tagged, all of a users comments are tagged as spam and not visible on the site. There is no way to get this designation corrected. Clicking the "Not Spam" button produces a message that they are working on fixing it, but they never do. Disqus management simply ignores this problem and has eliminated all ways to contact them.
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Cons:
  • Falsely tags legitimate comments as spam zero customer service
Reason of review:
Bad quality

Preferred solution: Provide users with a method of removing spam designations on their comments

1 comment
Guest

Because Disqus lets individual poster ban you. An individual has no right to take away your first amendment with no recourse.

Their faux legalese excuse of the site or site monitor did it to you is a LIE!

They should be banned form the U.S. Net because of it.

hoaxashian

Allows criminal impersonation

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Disqus - Allows criminal impersonation
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I attempted on many occasions to ask them to stop allowing my account to be impersonated . whats happening is that i am being trolled for political reasons and the trolsl are cloning my account in every way , copying my channel name, avatar and side comments. this has been going on for years and I cannot stop it , Disqus are in on this , so evil just like Google on top of all that disqus wont allow me to bring these matters to their attention as I have been banned from their forums
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Cons:
  • Political censorship
  • Globalist propaganda
  • No customer service
Reason of review:
allowing trolling and channel impersonation

Preferred solution: take action to prevent trolling and stop the feature that allows duplicated accounts , all channels must be unique

Anonymous
map-marker Ligonier, Pennsylvania

Terrible Heuristics.

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Flags many users comments as spam when they simply aren't. Which means their vaunted pre-screening is worthless and everything has to be manually moderated.
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Dr N Gdf

Customer Support to Help Delete Profiles

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Disqus - Customer Support to Help Delete Profiles
Please contact me by email: naheed97@***.com. You have misinformation and another person created this account with my name and personal career information. I do not work for the company listed. I need and request to have the profiles permanently deleted. Sincerely, Dr. Naheed Malik, O.D.
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Reason of review:
Misinformation and Need of Permanent Deletion

Preferred solution: Full refund

Anonymous
map-marker Wichita, Kansas

Immature Troll

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Tried contacting this person who goes by TRKeas to find out why my comments were flagged as spam. Appears that this person also runs an LLC under TwoGeeks, OneCamera website with a matching YouTube channel.

Found some of their other written shorts on WordPress but they refuse to contact me back. My attempts are being ignored which is completely immature of someone who supposedly runs a business. According to their Fiverr profile they give themselves away ghostwriting their own work on top of which they tell on themselves and outright scam customers saying they work with a team.

This person says that they design people's covers but then nothing they have posted is legitimately done by them personally. Aside from the writing, everything else is done by someone that DOES NOT exclusively work for them or their business.

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7 comments
Guest

Has anyone attempted to get in touch with the original poster? Get his side of the story at all?

Guest
reply icon Replying to comment of Guest-1764388

Original poster said in an IM with me that he was surprised that so many people have been affected by his relative. "That is just sad and unprofessional of them to do these things and continue to be so childish".

Person went on to say that their relative tried threaten them with a protective order but was never followed through since he said he had not done anything to his relative let alone been around her since 2017. She apparently stormed out at Christmas party where he had gave his own book to another family member and made the relative causing drama jealous.

Guest

Reading through these comments and posts I don't understand why someone trying to build a fan base would act like this. They ask people for money for their patreon, want a YouTube sponsor then call everyone giving a review of their content stalkers. Defeats the purpose of the former.

Guest

The LLC is for Geekstyle. They have two channels that are directly linked.

One for their gaming flop videos. The other is for the moderator that keeps flagging comments and her cheesy poor quality skits.

They have 411 videos on the main channel alone with only 200+ followers. Hope they aren't stupid enough to quit their day jobs.

Guest
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Are they serious? They're trying to solicit money from people to buy their crap and push their content for sponsorship?

Then turn around and *** on everyone that tells the truth about their garage? Fat chance in *** *** that anyone will sponsor your content.

This right here is so damned offensive. I don't even know this salty *** licking broad for her to throw me under the bus cause I use Yahoo!

Guest

Someone like this only tears themselves down. From the many complaints, people have had about this person they are clearly toxic and self-destructive. Best to avoid any sort of contact with them, and I wouldn't be surprised if someone like this is only doing these things for attention.

Guest

Pretty sure this person isn't going to be getting any sort of following if all they've done is trash everyone that's attempted to contact them... It's the exact opposite of what they should be doing.

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Anonymous

A E Rhose T R Keas

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Disqus - A E Rhose T R Keas
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This user flagged my post as spam, and banned from site for pointing out similarities between their book character Keagan and the Final Fantasy 8 character Seifer Almasy. Hair color, facial scar, color scheme of clothing they wear and even similar poses.

Book cover is with two people. Other is Final Fantasy

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Cons:
  • Harrassment
  • Blocking
  • Inability of moderators to allow this free exchange of ideas
2 comments
Guest

I've seen this artist's website a few days ago, there was nothing on the post with this picture that said it had been commissioned. Read the authors short stories as well, only one that was any good was a short work called Shark with Wings towards the end of the book.

Aside from that, the book is a flop and a total waste of money. Got mine out of a donation bin from goodwill.

Guest

There is definitely a likeness, only changes I see are the scar is slightly smaller and inverted, I looked up the game character as a reference and the pictures are almost exactly the same. Has Square Enix been notified of this?

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Corey R Pcu

Allowance of racial derogatory comments on the site

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There is an individual (GeneralWeiner) who comments every day and refers to blacks as "purple monkeys" and wishes them dead due to police violence. Freedom of speech is one thing but this individual calls for the harm and death of a group on a public setting. I sent a complaint to the customer service site but there appears to be no change as the individual continues to comment.
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Reason of review:
Poor customer service

Preferred solution: Remove the individual's privilege to comment through Disqus

1 comment
Guest

Chances are we're all *** in the wind with our complaints as looking up the Disqus employment they only have about 60 or so people handling the site if at all

Catherine M Odk

Not able to post because labelled as spam! Ridiculous!

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Disqus - Not able to post because labelled as spam! Ridiculous!
I have had a disqus account for years; and for the past year have been unable to use it - every time I try, absolutely EVERY post I do gets automatically labeled as 'pending' and then 'spam'. I've seen where others have complained about this. I think you are taking 'flagging' by others - especially trolls - WAY to seriously! I want my account back and working RIGHT!!
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Pros:
  • Discuss topics with others
Cons:
  • Inability of moderators to allow this free exchange of ideas
  • Allows trolls to dominate national conversations ignoring users
  • Complaints going on for years but disqus ignores us
Reason of review:
Access/ activation issues

Preferred solution: Make it work!!

Rich S Hwh

Disqus Mods Doxxing Users - Disqus refuses to respond to emails

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Disqus moderators at a site which uses their messaging platform have abused the access which Disqus provides to moderators and admins in order to doxx me. This has resulted in the loss of employment opportunities. Disqus refuses to even acknowledge my emails - three thus far - requesting a response and information regarding this matter and the Disqus corporate policy in regard to the abuse of their platform/'software.

This is a matter of concern to not only myself, but potentially to millions of other users who, like myself, unwittingly risk similar behavior simply by using this service.

Disqus' refusal to even respond to repeated queries indicates that this company is little more than a fly-by-night operation with about as much concern for users as any Nigerian scam artist.

If you value your privacy, you will think twice before using Disqus to communicate with others.

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Cons:
  • Crazy mods doxxed me
  • Invasion of privacy
  • Defamation of character
Reason of review:
Bad quality

Preferred solution: Information regarding the account which Doxxed me.

Jeanette R Mfe

Unresponsive in fact hostile to to users

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I have a Disqus account I have it fr years suddenly EVERY comment I make across all venuse is marked spam the moment I post. I asked for help and told me to write to monarator of EVERY venue I post on. I did and got only one response. It is a disqus problem. Now they will not even let me post on their forums. I'm not the only person making this complaint, a lot of people are complaining but so far not a peep from Disqus
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Reason of review:
Poor customer service
Casey B Dih

Personal Information Given Out

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User/Moderator posted in public comments that they had given the site personal information of mine to monitor. Called me a stalker for stating my opinions and proceeded to post the conversation to various other social media platforms.

This user added my name to a banner, gave out my email and name to sites and flagged multiple other users as stalkers merely for using the yahoo email service. Then moved site URL and deleted commenting section altogether to hide the comments they posted online.

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Cons:
  • That you removed my truthful comment on tmz
  • Most of it
  • Inability of moderators to allow this free exchange of ideas
Reason of review:
Slander, Defamation

Preferred solution: Let the company propose a solution

8 comments
Guest

Reading these comments I tried looking for the website of the users you and others have mentioned. From what I can see online the webpage has been left to expire and is no longer active.

Be vigilant though, trolls such as this typically come back under different names and create new pages to harass potential customers. Should this happen please be sure to let admins know about them so they can be black listed.

Guest

I was also flagged as spam for posting to this person who run the A E Rhose and T R Keas page. They didn't like that I pointed out the strong similarity that the character they call Keagan for the Lost in the Apocalypse short story they wrote looks very much based on the Final Fantasy franchise character Seifer Almasy in FF 8.

Their idea of customer service is to just ban everyone that disagrees with them, they dont let anyone have their opinion if it means bad for them. They only want rave review.

Guest
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Have you had any luck with getting this resolved? People like this are toxic trolls that thrive on harming others in these situations. Be careful and hope for the best.

Guest
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Yeah the same goes for a number of Gossip sites. One has me flagged as spam because I answered other's questions even though she was trying to sway people in a different direction. I sent her an email letting her know that I knew she flagged me as spam and that my account has been active for over 10 years, contacting Disqus is a total and complete waste of time.

Guest
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Was this AERhose, TRKeas or any of the affiliates they use or was this perhaps someone else in a similar situation?

Guest

Wow if this is the same person I'm thinking of we went to school together. She often joked about a boy in our class flushing our teachers toy from his desk.

If I recall this person also participated/knew of an animal cruelty act in which many of the students dyed the class rabbits fur so many times it fell out.

It eventually regrew but still. I never dreamed that she would become so disgusting a person to people.

Guest

This person posting these comments to their site apparently also goes by other aliases you've missed. Rozenrise is another alias for fanfiction I had frequently read their works until finding these screenshots.

This author has multiple facebook pages, and her website has been temporarily taken offline not entirely removed. Seems to me that with all the drama this person has generated for themselves blaming the original poster of stalking for having a right to speak their mind and including the yahoo community as a whole has pushed the troll into hiding until things for them simmer down. Trolls tend to do that. The information in this post and my own were all publicly viewable and posted by the troll themselves by use of the pennames listed by the original poster.

If they dont like getting the attention then they need to either suck it up or not post things. People like this are toxic and should be avoided.

Guest
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I can vouch for this as I cross-referenced just to see. The troll in question has pretty much destroyed themselves and most likely any hope of getting any sort of good standing with buyers.

Anyone else notice the troll affiliated their online handles with variations of Rose and Thorn in someway?

Even their own pen name was a dead giveaway. This person must think the online community is stupid.

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PointlessKoala

Moderators

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I used biologically correct terms in a post. It wasn't vulgar, it wasn't derogatory, and it wasn't offensive. They use these words on CNN every day. The moderators obviously have an agenda and cannot be trusted to do their job very well. Somebody down there needs to figure out what's going on because it's turned into a nothing but a big troll farm outlet. It's basically useless.
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Cons:
  • Very frustrating
Reason of review:
Poor customer service

Preferred solution: Let the company propose a solution

Glen S Jmu

Disqus' Answer Appears to be 'Just Ignore'

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Disqus' Answer Appears to be 'Just Ignore'
Im not sure what happened. Disqus denies my login to any site that uses them for security.. but ONLY from THIS computer. Using ANY other computer, I CAN login to ALL those sites, using the same information that I use when Disqus denies me from THIS computer. It seems obvious that Disqus has placed some type of cookie/cookies on my personal computer, however, they will not engage in dialog with me on how to un-install whatever it is they placed into my computer that triggers a denial to login and comment. If Disqus pops a window up for me to login with Google and I click on it, the window semi-freezes with a flickering address bar.
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Loss:
$1
Reason of review:
I am denied the ability to comment from THIS computer.

Preferred solution: Remove the cokkie/cookies from my personal computer, allowing me to resume commenting on site I visit with THIS computer.

John L Fsd

DISQUS SENDS VERIFICATION LETTERS TO AN EMAIL I DON'T OWN

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Updated by user Jul 03, 2019

To:hello@***.com,NancyPelosi@***.gov Jul 3 at 9:07 AM Customer Service: Yes, I'm pissed. You require a verification email from me, yet you keep sending it to an email account that I don't own.

When I try to edit that email account, you don't accept it. Worse, you won't allow me to delete that account and start a fresh one with my "actual" email for verification. You've found a means to "censor" an American voice. I know you are Chinese-owned and that you are keeping me from commenting on Chinese forums, such as Global Times and the People's Daily.

Are you representing America, or are you an arm of the Red Communists who are using this format to deny Americans free expression? I believe Trump and Congress need to investigate exactly who controls Disqus and what parameters are used to covertly deny Westerners free expression. After all, you've infiltrated almost every site where comments are invited, and we have no choice but to use Disqus. I require you to let me back on Disqus by changing my email account to the one you have here, right now, this account: lachance_john@***.com.

That's my email account, not what you have on your site.

I'm sending a copy of this email to my senator in congress, Nancy Pelosi, and asking for help in resolving this issue, as well as suggesting if Disqus is controlled by Beijing. John LaChance

Original review Jul 03, 2019
I can't post anything, because DISQUS insists on sending verification emails to an email I don't own and, consequently, can't use to verify my identity. Plus, DISQUS won't let me delete that account so that I can start one with my actual email address. They're *** with lots of people this way, keeping us from commenting on all sites. In essence, they've taken away our FREE EXPRESSION! I know they're a Chinese company (at least, owned by a Chinese guy with roots in Red China) and that they are using this means of silencing Westerners.
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Loss:
$5000
Cons:
  • That you cant modify your account or even delete it
Reason of review:
Poor customer service

Preferred solution: Let the company propose a solution

Anthony D Jlg
map-marker Clovis, California

Why do you make it so hard to log in?

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I use Firefox, no I will NOT change it, and it seems you are incapable of supporting it. when will you stop being jerks and write code that works?
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Pros:
  • Little
Cons:
  • No support
  • Most of it
Reason of review:
Bad quality

Preferred solution: Let the company propose a solution