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 Hamuko » Mon, Apr 22, 2024, 9:23 PM UTC

ergocoder wrote: post #321

well ARE YOU LONELY? It might be a lot of spams, but it seems to come from a single account using a single sentence. Spammers are getting lazy these days.

Impossible to be lonely with this many bots keeping me company.

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

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Post by wumeow » Mon, Apr 22, 2024, 9:59 PM UTC

Kind of strange this is still going on. They’re all new accounts so why not just disable account creation?

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

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Post by slater » Mon, Apr 22, 2024, 10:07 PM UTC

They're back. At this point it might be worthwhile switching off new account registrations for a while?

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

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Post by EveryPizza » Mon, Apr 22, 2024, 10:46 PM UTC

They seem to also be spamming posts.

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

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Post by 2genders1292 » Mon, Apr 22, 2024, 11:05 PM UTC

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Post by SEXMCNIGGA8415 » Mon, Apr 22, 2024, 11:05 PM UTC

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Post by 2genders20202 » Mon, Apr 22, 2024, 11:05 PM UTC

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