I’m noticing a pattern starting to develop in the community I mod (just barely – it’s only happened 3 times so far) where a user that posts a fairly large amount of relevant content occasionally posts weird spam with a title of alternating letter nonsense (e.g. “zazaz” or “sdsdsds”) and a link that goes to some random domain that serves nothing but a default 404 error (as in the domain is registered and there’s a server responding to requests, but there’s no content for it to serve).
I suppose it could just be bad behavior on the part of said users, but it feels more like a bug or their account getting hijacked or something. Anybody have any insight?
nulluser@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’ve been seeing these posts in various communities for at least a couple weeks. I’ve seen some communities ban the user, but then a different user starts doing it. No idea what’s going on or what the point is.
For those that haven’t seen these posts and want to watch for them (if just for curiosity), sort by “New” occasionally. They get downvoted and/or deleted by mods pretty quickly, so they’re not likely to show up in most other sorts.