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[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Honestly, it's a good thing.

When people try things like this, it helps that they're stupid and easy to point to.

It allows the devs to see and fix problems as they're exploited. I can see an easy "fix" being implementing a character limit on community names.

[–] Astrealix 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also probably a rate limit? You don't need to make that many communities that often.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

And as someone else said, a captcha.

[–] overzeetop 67 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just to be clear, this is a basement dweller's temper tantrum. You can smell the cheeto dust, mountain dew, and impotent rage through the screen.

[–] Astrealix 34 points 1 year ago

I like how this is supposed to be a "fuck it up" action instead of just a very minor inconvenience as well. If you want to fuck it up, do like a DDoS at least if you don't have the technical knowledge to find exploits.

[–] UnfortunateShort 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's a public platform, attacks, whether by white hat hackers or those with ill intend, are to be expected.

It should be double checked whether this can cause a buffer overflow, otherwise it's just a little annoying.

Edit: Okay, quite annoying, fair enough.

[–] 4am 9 points 1 year ago

Abusing the system to flood the “trending communities” with pure bullshit is a bit more than a “little” annoying.

Sorry you couldn’t squat community names for profit, loser.

[–] AlternActive 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

it's u/LMAO for reference. Just blocked him.

[–] ToNIX 17 points 1 year ago

Must be u/spez going Karen mode.

[–] MicroWave 7 points 1 year ago

What a child

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

Literally begging for a ban lol.

Give it ~8 hours lol

[–] s38b35M5 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

expires: in 274 years

Lol

[–] necropola 4 points 1 year ago

The user has been banned but those communities have not been deleted yet (for whatever reason).