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

  • SorteKanin@feddit.dk
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    3 months ago

    Whenever you see something like this, please just report the post as spam, block the user and petition your community moderators to recruit more mods, especially in other time zones.

    Even better, volunteer as mod yourself.

    Also please tell your admins to use an application rather than just the captcha - the captchas are easily broken.

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        3 months ago

        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.

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          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.