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Interesting that this wasn’t baked in as a preventative method for repeat usernames. Which is also ironic because why would this guy reuse the same username fo
by skilled 2y ago
Interesting that this wasn’t baked in as a preventative method for repeat usernames.
Which is also ironic because why would this guy reuse the same username for his little spam campaign when it can be nuked in one line of code…
Amateur stuff.
Never seen it happen before though!
- riedel 2y agoReally wonder, if this kind of spam is the perfect application for an LLM based agent.
- marginalia_nu 2y agoTo be fair, this kind of spam seems like you could output it with a shellscript.
- hawkice 2y agoI mean, at least LLMs would have different text in different messages.
- krainboltgreene 2y agoFor what, the pure joy of burning money?
- joeyhage 2y agoI’m also surprised that slurs/slang/foul language in usernames is allowed unless the server is overwhelmed and things are slipping past the validation.
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- hobs 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem It's almost definitely them not filtering anything and letting the community manage it.
- krapp 2y agoI think the "validation" is the mods happening to notice (usually because people who create such accounts get flagged, and dang gets notified of flags) and politely telling the person such usernames aren't allowed.
- gertop 2y agoI like how all of you keep demeaning the spammer as being amateur or less than script kiddie. And yet, he bested you, the supposedly experts at web dev and hyperscaling. You create trillions of dollars of value. And yet, your social hot spot is beyond laughably bad at handling that "incompetent" attacker.