Poll War III/Cheeeeeez

It was a normal day until I checked GoComics. This is what I find:



168 replies?! Um...what?

I went on here to find out about Martysays. (here), and realized that he said he would come back on the 15th (here), two days early, after being banned several times. I also found out he was a Poller in the Poll War.

Neptune
He left just before this happened but is on the wiki for the time being to battle

Likes
Anyway, some people liked his comment, like BlueYoshiFan, I LOVE PUFFA, LALA LAND, BLUE IS MY COLOR, etc.



No likes
And some people didn't, like Donald J Trump (@realDonaldTrump), marshmello, Sans (SunDaneil), and 0a1s2d3f4g5h.









0a1s2d3f4g5h
And @0a1s2d3f4g5h said “There has been a disturbance....something calls upon me to return.... An old enemy has returned.”

His Profile
''“Become a legend”, eh? Sounds like a power-hungry guy who spams for popularity.''

Imposter
Notice the period in “MartySays .”? Maybe he is an imposter.

EDIT: partly confirmed from unknown sources

Yet another account
MartySays probably made another account because he got banned last time.

Unbanning
Maybe he convinced the mods to unban him. However this is not very likely.

Sense of foreboding
Hey, check out the background of the wiki! Then look at the profile pic of MartySays. See the similarity? (Pictures provided if it is changed again)



Banned account
Finally, the mods deleted his account! No more spam!

However! He will probably come back. Probably as another version of MartySays.

I Like Puffa
Today, MartySays. has a copycat. I have put some arguments here. MartySays doesn’t seem to have come back again. Hmm...



Banned (Again?)
I LOVE PUFFA got banned. The new featured comment is by DarthPlagues, with 51 replies at the time of screenshotting. (Is that even a word?)

Update: 113 replies

Update: 186 replies

SpitsySays
He is yet another copycat.

(Picture by RagingNinja51 aka the wiki account of SpitsySays)

Return of the Pollers
Ok, so I glance at the strip again and WHAT THE BLEEEEEEP

MartySays and PUFFA have come back as MARTY SAYS and PUFFA ver. 2!

IMPORTANT NOTE: Nobody knows if these are real or copycats.



Around 95 percent of the 283 replies is MARTY SAYS spamming over and over “.” or posting one letter per post. At the bottom, MARTY SAYS says “I NEVER DIE” and “POLL WAR 4 BEGINS NOW!”

The Fifteenth
Ok, I decided to stop taking screenshots but to take videos.I decided to take videos instead of screenshots:

Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaqlByuMyV0

Banned again
Ok...now the new comment is by Gallade For SmFlowey (UwU)

SpitsySays acts up
After MARTY SAYS was banned yet again, SpitsySays spammed more than 50 times to DarthPlagueis, making it the featured comment with 114 replies. SpitsySays just surrendered!

MARTY SAYS was banned!



Dear GoComics
Here is the full email I sent to GoComics:

Dear GoComics,I am writing to you about a user who has repeatedly spammed and clogged the Big Nate comment section. He started with MartySays (he started a poll war) and later changed to NateSays, EllenSays, and more recently MartySays. and MARTY SAYS. Yesterday, MartySays. asked an irrelivant poll, which was okay until it got 200 replies and became featured. After he was blocked, I LIKE PUFFA (his other account/follower/copycat?) asked another irrelevant poll which received around 70 replies. After they both got banned, around noon EST on the 14th, they came back as MARTY SAYS and PUFFA ver. 2. PUFFA started a comment, and MARTY SAYS spammed more than 200 replies consisting mostly of “.” and letters making up incomprehensible words that he claimed “pollers knew what it meant”. At the end, he said “I NEVER DIE”, “NOBODY CAN STOP ME” and said “POLL WAR 4 BEGINS NOW!”. This/these people have been around for a long time, but just keep spamming and making new accounts.

I ask you to please maybe consider one or more of the following options:

1. IP Banning: A user mentioned IP banning (IPs stay the same on computers) which would ban users on a specific computer, not an account.

2. Change how the “Featured Comment” works: Many users have complained about how the Featured Comment works, based on replies. Maybe you could change it to make it on likes instead of replies, or cound how many replies per person, not in total. A more drastic change would be removing the “Featured Comment”.

3. Limit of maximum replies: You might prevent spamming of messages by limiting the replies to a message, or limiting how much you can reply to yourself.

4. Automatic banning: This seems like a bad solution, but here goes: you can’t have a name that ends in “Says” (not case sensitive).

5. Better checking: Ask moderators to be more active on the featured comment, or just in general.

6. Removal of the comment section altogether: USE THIS ONLY AS A LAST RESORT, PLEASE: Many users enjoy the comment section as a place to comment on the strip, chat about comic-related things, etc. But recently, the comment section has been more and more in decline. Still, me and others still like the comment section. PLEASE DO NOT REMOVE IT UNLESS YOU HAVE TO.

7. Ban spamming: If you post the same thing multiple times without anyone replying to you, you get a “spam warning”. If you get 3 or more, you get banned.

Thank you very much, this is important to me and many other people on GoComics.

- Cheeeeeeese

P.S. If this helps you, here is the wiki article I made for this crisis: https://big-nate-comments.fandom.com/wiki/MartySays_comes_back (removed because of @Swasimcool)



The new Anti-pollers seem to be

 * DarthPlagueis
 * bandana dee in smash
 * BigNateBeastAB6D5789-B023-47CD-86F8-066F30EF21EE.jpeg
 * Bignatebaseball
 * Obi-Wan Kenobi (Jesus)


 * Cheeeeeese
 * Henry Stickmin
 * SmokeScreen1000
 * Dat random Guy
 * Knight
 * Stop MartySays (who’s profile pic is on the right)
 * TheThoughtBubble
 * ItsP-dog
 * Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) (Bad guy turned good) (not the actual trump) (trump still sucks no offense)
 * CrossDoggo
 * General Grievous
 * Spock for Smash 0D3AE708-59B0-4392-A1A6-22F80D4269DB.jpeg

Updates

 * Puffa ver.2 has been banned, but MARTY SAYS has not.
 * MARTY SAYS has been banned on May 15.
 * It has been confirmed that the ”Marty”s or the “Says’” are all fake, imposters, by MartySays himself
 * The GoComics server temporarily went down.
 * MARTY SAYS and PUFFA ver. 2 are back as MaRtYsAyS! and PUFFA ver. 3395FC3A7-6379-41FE-A9D7-CB6B5AF2EFFF.jpeg6E90AFC4-8872-46FB-B61C-83AE15300FB2.jpeg

FancyPantsFan’s, BNB’s, and cheeeeeeeeez’s discoveries
MartySays admitted he was Thanos Stalin. He also said he altered it too. We think that he was referring to changing Thanos’ name to gumball’s gumball’s, which ended up getting banned according to sources in this wiki.

He named one of his edits “Teddybare123” We suspect that is one of his alts.

He named another edit “Tobias” BNB says Tobias is gumball’s gumball’s (Thanos Stalin) profile picture.

SpitsySays commented a bunch of letters. We put them together. Here is what we turned out with: “POLLERSJOINMEDESTROYTHEANTIPOLLERS”

which forms the sentence (grammar added):

Pollers! Join me! (Let’s) Destroy the anti-pollers!

”NEVERPOLLSFOREGOOUTWITHABANGMAYFIFTEENTHFOREVERSPITSYANDBANG”

We thought he was spelling sentences so we tried and decode it. Here’s what we got: ”POLLERS JOIN ME DESTROY THE ANTI POLLERS” “NEVER POLLS FORE GO OUT WITH A BANG MAY FIFTEENTH FOREVER SPITSY AND BANG” Yeah, some of it doesn’t make sense, but still, progress.

PUFFA ver. 3 said:

NATESAYSISANIDIOTHEMAKESNOSENSE

which is basically:

NateSays is an idiot, he makes no sense

So is this thing over?
NOPE. Puffa ver. 3is back as 3.5