It looks like the spammers have discovered GOG.

Several recent games have had spam posted to the game contents, mostly by "cinday". Can we get these comments removed, and/or GOG set up some sort of moderation mechanism? Both comments have been heavily marked by readers as unhelpful - GOG might hide any comment with over 12 comments of which over 2/3 are unhelpful (for example).

As it is, both comments were made soon after the games were released and so are listed near the top of the game comments.

Try a game released earlier and click on the lowest rated comments. There are spams older than 3 years.

GOG doesn't care enough to even make a captcha for reviews written by newly created accounts.

i always found captcha not a really good solution -> too much words scanned are totaly unreadable..... >.>

if they really want use this, they should only use a combinaison of numbers & letters , it's less annoying.

but , i seriously doubt they really care to put this in place.

I am sure thast you have to pay to use that system. GOG just needs to quickly check any reviews heavily downrepped and remove those that are truly spam or junk.

What I meants was pretty much users with Rep below 10 should put a captcha to submit a review. That would stop most of the spambots and wouldn't annoy genuine users.

Uh, what?
You do know that captcha isn't a specific system, right? reCAPTCHA is one implementation, and that might be the one you're thinking of. I must say, though, that it is one of the better ones I have stumbled upon (several others being much too easy for a computer to pass).

Or they could run all reviews through akismet.

doesn't change anything, both could have unreadable word / worse pirctures....

if it's a countermesure for bots , it can be very annoying for a real person .... i was faced both , so.....

the combinaison of numbers & letters is way more readable (at least for me)

For reCaptcha, the words that seem scanned (or currently street numbers) are actually scanned words (or I guess google street view photos). You can type anything in that half of the captcha, it will be accepted as correct, though the other half must be entered correctly.

ah , didn't know that, thanks for the tip !

Which is why the "rotating arrow" button to get a new image exists, another user might have an easier time with that word (it'll be distorted differently another time).

Isn't that the one that uses the info to help transcribe hard-to-read words in books digitally? I remember reading something in Cracked about it...

I wonder, how much Google is making off each correctly recognized scan/photo in captcha? And, does that also mean that they trace your every comment and download by matching IPs between a Google account and captchas?

Yes. ReCaptcha is google's captcha system, that it used for Project Gutenberg (I think). Unfortunately, they currently skipped the book part and are doing street numbers, thus I no longer bother giving correct answers to that part.