Ask HN: Is Hacker News under attack from spam bots? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Is Hacker News under attack from spam bots?

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Post by joeyhage » Mon, Apr 22, 2024, 8:11 PM UTC

macintux wrote: post #18

Per https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments the flood stopped 2 minutes ago.

It seems to be going in waves, and it also appears they are getting removed in batches.

Re: Ask HN: Is Hacker News under attack from spam bots?

#22

Post by Olesya000 » Mon, Apr 22, 2024, 8:14 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: Is Hacker News under attack from spam bots?

#23

Post by joeyhage » Mon, Apr 22, 2024, 8:14 PM UTC

47thpresident wrote: post #19

At the end of each spam message there is a unique 15 character string. Anyone know what purpose the string is supposed to serve?

Poor attempt at trying to make the URL unique possibly and prevent it from being blocked. Someone could easily block the domain or use regex to block comments with that domain.