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Implement recaptcha for the Spam in the comments of the marketplace!

Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2020 6:29 pm
by trueliar
Implement recaptcha in the marketplace comments (or a comments moderation feature).
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There's often spam in the comments in the marketplace.
I'm quite sure since I get those spam comments almost daily under all my addons.

I already notified the opencart's support and suggested to use recaptcha or a similar solution to avoid the problem.

The spammers are still pestering the comments area.

Re: Spam in the the marketplace!

Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2020 9:55 pm
by Johnathan
Yes, there's a prolific spammer in the marketplace right now. They're banning the accounts and removing the comments, but seem unable to find a way to ban the person altogether. Hopefully they'll get that sorted, otherwise this could become a huge issue further down the road.

Re: Spam in the the marketplace!

Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2020 4:07 pm
by JNeuhoff
Johnathan wrote:
Fri Aug 07, 2020 9:55 pm
Yes, there's a prolific spammer in the marketplace right now. They're banning the accounts and removing the comments, but seem unable to find a way to ban the person altogether. Hopefully they'll get that sorted, otherwise this could become a huge issue further down the road.
We just became victims in our comments sections on this, too. And when we tried to warn another marketplace vendor about this spammer, because his software was illegally sold by the spammer, our own OpenCart account got suspended, triggered by a certain keyword. So for the time being, we are unable to sell our extensions through the OpenCart marketplace.

I really hope that OpenCart will sort this out!

Re: Implement recaptcha for the Spam in the comments of the marketplace!

Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2020 3:35 pm
by Naheed
Yes, it would be best if the Opencart uses re-captcha or a similar solution to avoid this problem. Finding and baning a person is not that simple, so it would be better to use re-captcha, etc. to avoid spammers.

Re: Implement recaptcha for the Spam in the comments of the marketplace!

Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2021 12:50 am
by JNeuhoff
Several months later, and this issue still hasn't been resolved on the OC marketplace comments section, see this forum thread. The spammer changes his user name almost on a daily basis, and when adding a comment, there is no anti-spambot protection whatsoever!

Also, what I don't understand, the spammer also sells a lot of stolen OpenCart extensions, why do extension authors don't care?

Re: Implement recaptcha for the Spam in the comments of the marketplace!

Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2021 6:30 am
by trueliar
I confirm that after an year the spammers are still pestering the marketplace comments area. I receive tons of notification emails regarding those spam comments even if they get removed (automatically?).
I'm a bit frustrated of receiving all that garbage.

Re: Implement recaptcha for the Spam in the comments of the marketplace!

Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2021 8:49 pm
by JNeuhoff
Yes, it can be frustrating. The sad story is that loads of OpenCart extension authors are affected by it, because this spammer sells their stolen software, but these OpenCart extension authors don't seem to care!

Re: Implement recaptcha for the Spam in the comments of the marketplace!

Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2021 4:06 am
by DigitCart
Hi
It seems they added a moderation system to the marketplace review section.
Today someone asked for help by writing a review on one of my extension pages, I replied his review, But my reply is not approved yet.