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?
I remember people using tools such as Greasemonkey to redact comments on Reddit using scripts to mass-replace the content of their comments with babble. If comments don’t get truly deleted when they are deleted or can be brought back up in some way, then editing comments to replace the content of them with babble is better. That’s my two coins anyway. I think something similar is happening here. Another factor could be that some instances might not federate comment deletions as well as they do with edits
That’s not what’s happening here. The comments are like that from the beginning, not being edited to that state.