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Anyone have some insight into the motivation of spam bot behavior? It doesn't make sense to me that they'd intentionally re-post the same link on a story 100+
by varenc 3y ago
Anyone have some insight into the motivation of spam bot behavior? It doesn't make sense to me that they'd intentionally re-post the same link on a story 100+ times. Perhaps repeating the same link is good for SEO farming? Or somehow there's a belief that 100+ identical comments is more effective than just a few?
Also the comments all seem to end with a 15 character random string, which I assume is just there to add entropy and avoid identical comment detection.
- troydavis 3y agoJust a guess: a teenager who learned to script and thought this was novel. This isn't an organized marketing campaign, it's a DoS with some links for amusement. Other than the volume, it's not even script kiddie level. Presumably they have access to proxy servers, though.
- gertop 3y agoA teenager who just learned to script bested a forum for (and by!) the Silicon Valley elite? Shameful if true. But unsurprising.
- salad-tycoon 3y agoIsn’t that every hacker lore story ever? It’s always David and Goliath. Script kid vs fbi vs nsa vs Microsoft/xbox vs etc. It’s an elegant story arc.