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Dangs got some work cut out for him tonight
by m3kw9 3y ago
Dangs got some work cut out for him tonight
- ronsor 3y agoI've never seen so much spam in a thread before.
- dragontamer 3y agoIts across everything on the frontpage. Hundreds of spam links. It looks very much like a concerted attack of some kind. The spam seems quite ineffective, so I'm wondering if the "real" attack is trying to get the moderators to hell-ban a legitimate person to silence them or something. I dunno, its really weird. Its hard for me to take this spam at face value, I can't imagine that this website is a good target for such spam. Its clearly just here to annoy the moderators and make them tired vs... something. Reminds me of Starcraft Muta Harass: you're attacking the APM and attention-span of the opponent, not actually trying to straight up win with Muta. If that makes any sense.
- mschuster91 3y agoOr it's some kind of weird-ass SEO campaign (not that it'll work, dang has implemented rel=nofollow a few months ago). Man, I've been on HN for >11 years now, literally never saw a spam campaign this intensive.
- blackeyeblitzar 3y agoGiven they all link to Discord, I wonder if @dang should consider contacting their abuse team to investigate and take down those channels.
- Rexxar 3y agoMaybe it's exactly what they want (I didn't check the links). Maybe they want to make someone they don't like banned.
- cabbageears 3y agofunction modifyElements(pSel, cSel, rxStr) { const regex = new RegExp(rxStr, 'i'); const pEls = document.querySelectorAll(pSel); pEls.forEach(pEl => { const fEl = pEl.querySelector(cSel); if (fEl && regex.test(fEl.textContent)) { pEl.style.display = 'none'; } }); } let rx = /(hi are u lonely|want (an )?ai gf?)/i; modifyElements(".athing.comtr", ".comment", rx);