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So, uhm, what the hell is going on with all these ad posts I’m seeing in this community?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Not necessarily a bad idea, but most the spam I've seen is from new accounts on larger instances, so I'm not sure it'll help with this.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Seems like a user pattern that should be fairly detectable. Might not be a bad idea to scrape logs to look for spammy/copypaste comments, particularly on very new accounts, and either flag them for manual review or just ban them outright.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

yeah usually less than an hour to a few hours old. occasionally they make it to days.