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Comment by dutchbrit

4 years ago

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.