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(Edit - it's over, for now.) Why are there so many cracked software spam posts in the last few days? (feddit.uk)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by ianovic69@feddit.uk to c/technology@lemmy.world
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I know spam posts have been around for a while but not like this.

I'm in the Fediverse for the lack of advertising as much as anything else but this may as well be R****t.

Apologies for the rant, please lmk if I'm missing something obvious.

Thanks.

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[โ€“] Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yea, no clue, very annoying to deal with. I've been building tools to allow us to delete them faster. Some information on how it currently works: if a post get's reported more than 3 times in a short time, some people get notified and they can identify whether it's spam and then instantly delete it. We also have an automod made by Rooki which has a list of blacklisted URL's. If anyone has any ideas on how to improve this, feel free to share.

[โ€“] ianovic69@feddit.uk 2 points 2 years ago

Thanks for replying, much appreciated.