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Interesting that this wasn’t baked in as a preventative method for repeat usernames.

Which is also ironic because why would this guy reuse the same username for his little spam campaign when it can be nuked in one line of code…

Amateur stuff.

Never seen it happen before though!

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Really wonder, if this kind of spam is the perfect application for an LLM based agent.

To be fair, this kind of spam seems like you could output it with a shellscript.

Do we lack a captcha here?

I just tried logging in and looks like there is a captcha now. There wasn't one before.

I mean, at least LLMs would have different text in different messages.

For what, the pure joy of burning money?

I’m also surprised that slurs/slang/foul language in usernames is allowed unless the server is overwhelmed and things are slipping past the validation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem It's almost definitely them not filtering anything and letting the community manage it.

I think the "validation" is the mods happening to notice (usually because people who create such accounts get flagged, and dang gets notified of flags) and politely telling the person such usernames aren't allowed.

I like how all of you keep demeaning the spammer as being amateur or less than script kiddie.

And yet, he bested you, the supposedly experts at web dev and hyperscaling. You create trillions of dollars of value. And yet, your social hot spot is beyond laughably bad at handling that "incompetent" attacker.

Since you are othering the parties concerned, mind sharing more info on the attacker?

Is that you? yt/@gertop6402 Just guessing.. anywho, your nick signals SEO knowledge and reasons to hide.

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