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Looks like we've had a wave of porn bots hit recently. Screenshot is a sampling of what's popping up on my threads feed when sorted by new.

A heads up to @ernest and to folks with magazines that might get hit by these guys. Looks like they're submitting from a couple of different domains, so it's difficult to block them from the user side, and some admin action might be necessary.

EDIT: ernest has removed the accounts and content, looks like all is well.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think it's mainly to facilitate the microblogging side of kbin. Microblog posts normally get sorted into magazines according to their hashtags. Any post that doesn't have at least one matching magazine ends up in /m/random.

[–] Carnelian 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Oh interesting, is there somewhere I can read about how that works? I’m not sure how the hashtags would translate into getting sent to different magazines, but it sounds cool

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You can set the tags that correspond to a magazine from its settings panel if you are an owner or mod. So posts with those tag will start showing up in the microblog section of the magazine.

[–] Carnelian 2 points 2 years ago

Oh, word that makes sense, ty