Comment Glitch: Word Trigger System

Xiaomi on 31/08/2018 - 00:18
Last edited 31/08/2018 - 00:19

An annoying glitch with the word recognition system when commenting on deals is when you place these two words "sold out" anywhere in your comment, it triggers a repetitive cycle that cannot be avoided unless you remove those two words. The pop-up triggered reads:

If the deal is no longer available, please report it so that the moderators can mark it as expired.

You click ok, and hit he post comment button and the message pops up again, and again, and again. It doesn't allow you to post your comment unless you take the trigger words out of your comment.

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  • Moderatorscrimshaw on 31/08/2018 - 00:35

    We'll test it tomorrow morning.

  • Savas on 31/08/2018 - 00:39
    +2

    sold out

    • Xiaomi on 31/08/2018 - 00:40

      Deals not forum posts

      • Savas on 31/08/2018 - 00:40
        +2

        yeah I can read

        • Xiaomi on 31/08/2018 - 00:41
          +1

          And yet you still post here. Genius.

        • Savas on 31/08/2018 - 00:41
          +2

          @XioamiGuy: you literally posted an empty comment 22 minutes ago??

        • Xiaomi on 31/08/2018 - 00:42

          @Savas: yeah i can read

        • Savas on 31/08/2018 - 00:46
          +2

          @XioamiGuy: cool

        • Xiaomi on 31/08/2018 - 00:47
          +2

          @Savas: fyi. That blank comment was me testing sold out in the forums LOL

        • Savas on 31/08/2018 - 01:03
          +2

          @XioamiGuy: Knew it lol

        • AlienC on 31/08/2018 - 01:43
          +4

          @Savas: sold out

          i just wanna be a part of the team guys

          pleaseee

        • cvas on 31/08/2018 - 09:13
          +1

          Sold Out

  • AlienC on 31/08/2018 - 01:47

    Cool feature.. hope more websites implement this to reduce spam and unnoteworthy comments and even posts maybe.

    Ozbargain.. number one online internet website technology implementer thing guy thing

  • Moderatormoocher on 31/08/2018 - 09:59

    The popup should only occur if the (number of characters in 'sold out' i.e 8)/(number of characters in your phrase) exceeds 0.5. In other words, if your comment is longer than 16 characters the popup should not occur. The idea is that if most of the comment is about something being sold out, we want people to report the deal instead of commenting.

    • Xiaomi on 31/08/2018 - 10:53
      +1

      The message I posted was definetely more than 16 characters.

      • Moderatormoocher on 31/08/2018 - 10:54

        Can you give me the exact message please?

        • Xiaomi on 31/08/2018 - 10:54
          +1

          I just wrote a message, I don't have it saved but it was about two sentences strong.

        • Moderatormoocher on 31/08/2018 - 11:00

          @XioamiGuy: Sorry I have tested on different phrases and cannot reproduce the issue when the comment length is more than 16 characters. If it occurs again on a specific comment, please let us know.

  • elgrande on 01/09/2018 - 21:54
    +1

    Sold in

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