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We know it’s important that spam be caught as quickly as possible, and we also recognize that spammy content in communities may not be the same thing as the scaled spam campaigns that we often focus on at the admin level.
I've noticed quite an uptick in fresh accounts that copy a comment / part of a comment, and post it as a reply in a separate (often unrelated) comment chain under the same post.
and because that explanation feels like a brain fart this late at night, here's a practical explanation: https://old.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/11k99po/ladies_and_gentleman_the_award_for_developer_of/jb766dr/?context=3[1] (although the comment I replied to says `[unavailable]`, so it might have been removed already...)
Do these types of accounts count as spam? Are they something you're aware of / working on?
Comment by tumultuousness at 07/03/2023 at 01:13 UTC
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The comment you replied to is still up - seems they blocked you though. Interesting, most comment copiers I've seen don't go back and block people but I have seen it a handful of times.
Hopefully the admin replies, but I can say when I do notice these I do report them as spam. I notice that after they get the karma and sit a bit they change tactics to something else, t shirt spam or OF spam or what have you.