Again, and with one of the most notoriously sleazy advertisers out there. Notice you are labeling the sponsored "article" in the lower right as an ad, as you are required to.

Really Gamespot? You're burying unlabeled advertising in the news feed now? Don't you legally have to label this?

The below image shows no disclaimer whatsoever until you've opened it. It appears to be a normal news article.

I think I've finally figured out this idiotic bug, and I've also figured out why Gamespot hasn't fixed it.

When you load an article, it loads up inside your browser as normal. If you read to the bottom of the article and scroll down, it automatically loads another article (bad website design). Gamespot does this to artificially inflate impressions to those articles to prop up their page/ad views to get more ad spend.

If you watch your url bar carefully, when you scroll down near the bottom of an article and it loads the next one, your URL will actually change to the link of the next loaded story, (also bad website design) such that if you refresh the page you actually get the SECOND story, with no link back to the original (VERY bad website design).

This can happen very, very easily if you click the "Show Comments" button near the top of the story, or click the Comments section button to expand the comments and you immediately start to scroll down before the comments pop out into their full size - the next story loads and your url changes.

I'm pretty sure every time I have gotten one of the CSRF errors, the URL has changed to the second story. When I return to the first story and refresh the page using the URL to the first story, then renavigate to comments and paste the comment ensuring the URL is that of the story I'm actually posting the comment on, it works.

If Gamespot prevented the second story from loading or your URL from changing, I'm guessing it would likely solve this bug. But that would devastate their falsely inflated page views, and they can't have that.

Stopped getting notifications last week also.

This is a systemtic problem on this site since your last redesign, but old articles repeatedly resurface at the top of your news feed masquerading as new articles posted on a current date.

Here's a perfect example:

"Falcom President Talks The Future Of Legend Of Heroes, And Localizing Trails Of Cold Steel 3"

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/falcom-president-talks-the-future-of-legend-of-her/1100-6468720/

By Alessandro Fillari | @afillari on December 2, 2019 at 11:37AM PST

This article is 4 months old, but you'd never know it by the datestamp on the article, nor the fact that it appeared near the top of today's news feed like it was a new article. The comment datestamps couldn't be faked though, revealing the truth.

You are either consciously doing this or it's a bug in your implementation. Either way it's obnoxious. You see the same articles over and over and over in the feeds, when I only want to see actual new articles.

Looks like someone did something and things are back to normal. Can we please not have this happen every couple weeks?

Your site is completely broken. Wake up.

Sigh.

Ok, someone rolled out another bad build. Now not only can you not flag content, you can't reply to people or upvote comments.

This is still broken. Is there any moderation going on?

Yes, this is still happening. Maybe less than before, but that could be coincidence.