What's up with all the ads here?

HKPiax@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.world – 129 points –

So, uhm, what the hell is going on with all these ad posts I’m seeing in this community?

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Not necessarily a bad idea, but most the spam I've seen is from new accounts on larger instances, so I'm not sure it'll help with this.

Seems like a user pattern that should be fairly detectable. Might not be a bad idea to scrape logs to look for spammy/copypaste comments, particularly on very new accounts, and either flag them for manual review or just ban them outright.

yeah usually less than an hour to a few hours old. occasionally they make it to days.