I may have found one (coincidentally a few minutes after seeing this thread): discuss.tchncs.de/modlog?userId=20528183
Comment on Occasional weird spam posts by otherwise (seemingly) legitimate users?
catloaf@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Can you link some examples?
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
All the ones I have seen are from that same user. @daniel_callahan@jai.lu
grue@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
You misspelled the instance name, but that’s a good thing since pinging the user in question with a mention probably wouldn’t have been a good idea anyway.
The thing that confuses me is that the user has posted a bunch of other content (both posts and comments) such that the ratio of spam to ham is pretty low, and the writing of the comments seems very human (in terms of the inferences it makes and the idioms it uses), so if it’s some kind of repost-bot, it’s a very sophisticated one.
It really seems like a legitimate user whose account is getting hijacked to occasionally post gibberish spam, which is why I find it so weird.
ZeroGravitas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Hot take: he occasionally leaves his phone unlocked when his little brother’s around.
Really looks like a prank to me.
grue@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
lemmy.world/modlog/3902,
ctrl-ffor “spam” or “rule 4”(ordered from newest to oldest)
lemmy.world/post/30789291 by daniel_callahan @ jlai.lu
lemmy.world/post/30245366 by dwazou @ jlai.lu
lemmy.world/post/29941517 by dwazou @ lemm.ee
I’ve also noticed that in the “dwazou” cases the post was later edited to remove the link and change the title to “permanently deleted”. The dwazou @ lemm.ee user account has apparently been deleted, but the other two accounts appear to still be active and posting legitimate content.
Also, the community I mod isn’t the only one this is happening to. See also lemmy.world/post/30720233, for example.
catloaf@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
I think “permanently deleted” is when a mod or admin deletes their content administratively.