The best way to mitigate this issue is simply disapprove the comment and move on. With enough of us doing this, the issue will slow.

I realize that you need to write a sentence explaining why you are disapproving which can be cumbersome after a while.

But here is what I do:

* I simply copy and paste their comment in my disapproval text and write [DISAPPROVED] at the top. This takes me only a few seconds.

* When ordering comments, I try to do it during my own business hours when I know others in my own time zone will be looking for sites to comment on.
I find this works well as those with potential language barriers would most likely be asleep.

Regards,
Jay

i don’t disagree with anything that I have seen here, but there are those who also struggle to understand the comments system.

I made a few wee errors at the start including mixing up comments with feedback. (I think from what I have seen that is fairly common by the way)

I was appalled at the vitriol in some of the replies I got in disapprovals (I have had less than half a dozen disapprovals out of hundreds of comments that I have made by the way) I just wanted someone to point out how I could improve and let me know what I had done wrong.

It is pretty obvious who is on the credits bandwagon, and I am with everyone on this just serially disapprove them and as Carson has indicated they will lose their access.

But for some it just needs a wee bit adjustment so I have taken to disapproving usually telling them that the quality is not there to be rewarded with a credit and I tell them to read this excellent post from Eric and wish them luck for next time How to Leave Quality Comments in Site Comments Consistently I have seen a number of people come back later to offer me comments who have obviously read it, digested it and acted on it and improved to the point where their comments are ok.

I wish that I had seen Eric’s post on day 1 or 2 here at WA......Just a thought 🧐

They do this because they don't really care about the topic and it is faster to just copy what we say and repeat it with a few common phrases they use over and over and over and over in every comment such as: "Thank you so much for this beautiful article...". "I did not know anything about this before I saw your article". "From your article I now understand that ....". "I will share this on social media...". It is a preset outline they fill in each time so it is fast. They just switch up a few words or sentences. The people doing this are probably just here for the credits which they can cash out for real money. In poor countries the amount of money you can get for commenting here would be quite substantial. I can't prove this but there are many of us here who feel this is what is happening. We need to disapprove bad comments in order to stop this from drowning out good comments.

I have only recently become aware of credits. I have no idea what they do or how you get them... Apparently you are supposed to pay whoever gives you their opinion of your site.

I post a site. One person said it looked good but my paragraphs were too long. They weren't. I am very conscious of breaking up my text to make it readable. I didn't approve or disapprove. Didn't know I was suppose to.

I looked at somebody else's site and said visually appealing, well written but for him to appeal to people within his niche he needed some instruction videos

Again, no approval of disapproval nor was I expecting one.

I'm with you Coralie. It's a frustrating issue. I get the same commenters time and time again who merely summarize my post or comment on my website OR have such terrible grammar that I have to spend time just making the post presentable. It's a matter of integrity, in my opinion.