You see it if you have showdead turned on, littering the bottoms of threads. There's not very much of it though; I can't imagine it's very effective. Brand new accounts that post links in their first comments often get automatically shadow-banned, which is why the spam isn't very visible.
Same! In all these years... I am examining it now and dare is say it is just basic spam. "It's better than Tinder!" A redirect but then just a very small, simple page with no JS that looks malicious. Strange community to target. :/
Well, that’s the first time I’ve encountered real spam on HN...
You see it if you have showdead turned on, littering the bottoms of threads. There's not very much of it though; I can't imagine it's very effective. Brand new accounts that post links in their first comments often get automatically shadow-banned, which is why the spam isn't very visible.
Same! In all these years... I am examining it now and dare is say it is just basic spam. "It's better than Tinder!" A redirect but then just a very small, simple page with no JS that looks malicious. Strange community to target. :/
It comes up quite often if you sort by new or comments. The mods here are very on top of it.