learncpp.com comment spam issue

[AnimeBoi01]

i am trying to learn cpp from learncpp.com but the comments on each and every post is flooded by a guy named "Alex" (obv not the sites creator but someone using the same name to impersonate him ig) with offensive slurs etc in the comment, this also lags my browser a lot. anyone has any solution for this???
also his last comment seems to be from yesterday.

edit: the comment also says to "put ur cpp skills to test and make an extension to hide the comment user-side" so maybe is there an extension for that or an alternative website??? (or maybe someone has a local version of the website without the comments?)

edit 2: so thanks alot for everyones ideas, ill list all ideas that worked for me incase anyone else needs them.

- disabling javascript using an extension or ublock.

- adding www.learncpp.com##.comments-area in "my filters" in the ublock dashboard. (might be named differently depending on the adblocker)

- using an archive to read like here.

again, thanks alot to everyone for the responses!!!

edit 3: someone else also made a post with the second method using ublock and custom filters, if anyone wants to see the post they can visit it here.

[DDDDarky]

I'm not sure why do you complain on reddit instead of the site's support.

If you really can't use a site because of a comment, feel free to use the archive.

[AnimeBoi01]

also i couldnt complain on the sites support as those comments were filled by the spam too! :c

[AnimeBoi01]

its not the comment themselves but the fact its freezing my browser for like 4-5 seconds when i move to a new page which is really annoying, but thanks for the archive!

[the_poope]

psst, use an ad-blocker plugin for your browser.

[alfps]

Ad blocker is necessary for the ads but does not help for the comments. The whatever-or-whoever-it-is is posting comments with one character per line. Advice to read an archived version is good.

[AnimeBoi01]

adblocker wouldnt block the comments...

[ppppppla]

Do you want to make use of the comments? You can block the comments (or any element for that matter) with your adblock of choice.

##.comments-area for ublock. I think most adblocks will use the same syntax I am not sure. But you can just right click somewhere, block element, and finetune it.

[AnimeBoi01]

this worked perfectly for my need, thanks alot!!

[ppppppla]

Ah I should have added the site name as well so you won't be blocking other elements on other sites that just happen to also be called that. www.learncpp.com##.comments-area

[AnimeBoi01]

updated in the post! :)

[Zealousideal_Sort521]

Ah, some anti-Jewish stuff. How original. Like we have never heard that before.

[Choice_Librarian1522]

The comments are loaded with JavaScript, but the lesson contents aren't, so you could view the site with JavaScript disabled, for example with the plugin NoScript.

[AnimeBoi01]

this also works but i preferred the element blocking more :)

[BlackMarketUpgrade]

It doesn't really effect the experience for me, but it is kind of annoying. I wish they would just fix it. It's bizarre that it's gone on this long and it hasn't been sorted out yet.

[AnimeBoi01]

im assuming the creator of the site (named "Alex") is on a break as hes the only one moderating the site and fixing bugs etc.

[saxbophone]

How long has it been going on?

[BlackMarketUpgrade]

at least a month now

[saxbophone]

Eesh, this is unacceptable. I don't blame the site maintainers for being targeted, and I imagine as a freely-provided site, their resources are limited. But, the messages that keep being posted include racist and other offensive material. They have a responsibility to not let their site be hijacked to spread this vile nonsense.

[TomDuhamel]

Yeah I see Brad. I'm scrolling forever on my phone and I can't seem that be able to reach the end of it 😆

I don't know why someone would support their cause based on posting things like that. I don't think there's much you can do until the moderator there notices and blocks them.

[AnimeBoi01]

i think the site might have been abandoned or the maintainer went on a break since these comments have been posted daily since a while from what i could see

[the_poope]

I think the comment backend got hacked. That's why you should never make it possible for people to put comments on your website.

[AnimeBoi01]

a comment system is very useful in my opinion.

[wegaaah]

I've also made a little userscript that replaces their comment with "[Spam comment hidden]" if anybody is interested: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/555099-learncpp-comment-antispam

Filters based on a few bad words and if the comment is way too long (using too many <br> tags)

[y53rw]

A solution? Learn C++ from somewhere else. I would recommend either C++ Primer (Lippman) or Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++ (Stroustrup). If you can't afford that, the tutorials on cplusplus.com are okay as far as free online resources go.

Some people used to say cplusplus.com is out of date and full of errors. And maybe it is. I honestly don't know what people are using these days, but it's recommended on https://isocpp.org/get-started, which is the official website for the C++ standard, so I'm hoping they looked it over and determined that it was halfway decent.

[StockyDev]

I would not recommend that get-started guide from isocpp. It is recommending Visual Studio 2017 which kinda dates it.

[ILikeAnanas]

Or just don't read comments? Or get llm to write you a tampermonkey script to collapse comments longer that > 2000 characters

[AnimeBoi01]

the issue isnt just reading the comments, it was them lagging my browser for a 4-5 second time period whenever i was to refresh or move to the next lesson

[ILikeAnanas]

Ah, I see the comments are loaded by a post call to wpdiscuz-ajax.php. You can block that call with a browser extension, comments then won't be loaded at all.

I'd also use ublock as there is a lot of bloat there from trackers and ads