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

wood_spirit wrote: post #20

kertoip_1 wrote: post #12

So if it is possible with comments, does it mean it is possible with voting? I'm wondering how many posts recently came to main page upvoted by bots

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

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Post by joeyhage » Mon, Apr 22, 2024, 8:28 PM UTC

skilled wrote: post #5

Interesting that this wasn’t baked in as a preventative method for repeat usernames. Which is also ironic because why would this guy reuse the same username for his little spam campaign when it can be nuked in one line of code… Amateur stuff. Never seen it happen before though!

I’m also surprised that slurs/slang/foul language in usernames is allowed unless the server is overwhelmed and things are slipping past the validation.