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

#404

Are you lonely and want to do something? Flag those spam comments. Yeah, I was surprised by the amount, it feels like an attack rather than spam. I hope this didn't interrupt Dang from something more important.

For anyone like me, unable to figure out how to do that - you click Reply, and then there's a 'flag' link.

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

#405
There are apps currently make multi six figures a month with "AI girlfriend services". Not for me but it apparently is worth paying for to some people. But hell, one time I was scrolling through this hot person's Instagram and it took me a good minute or two to realize the whole account was a generative AI account, almost tricked me. Give it another decade and we can reevaluate.

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

#406

Are you lonely and want to do something? Flag those spam comments. Yeah, I was surprised by the amount, it feels like an attack rather than spam. I hope this didn't interrupt Dang from something more important.

For anyone like me, unable to figure out how to do that - you click Reply, and then there's a 'flag' link.

Or click the timestamp.

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

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post #382
post #372

Would love to see a postmortem once it's dealt with.

This forum is built with early 2000s technology. It doesn't even use two-factor authentication or captchas for creating accounts. This was honestly bound to happen sooner or later.

I don't want them to require a email/phone for privacy's sake, but they should definitely have a captcha of sorts to limit bot accounts.
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