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?
Maybe admins/app developers doing test posts?
I don’t think those accounts are admins of the instances they’re from. They could be alts, I suppose, but why would they use the same alt for both real interactions and test posts? And why would they be test-posting to real communities on other instances (especially without warning the mods first) instead of somewhere like !bot_test@lemmy.world ?
Hard to say just from what’s in the modlog. Maybe they’re editing a post instead of deleting it?