cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/30801261

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?

  • grue@lemmy.worldOP
    3·
    27 days ago

    But both the title and the link are nonsense (and the post body is empty). If the posts were only half-nonsense I probably would’ve guessed the explanation you just gave and not bothered to ask about it.