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 am not sure how a bug can change a users post to literal nonsense with URLs that direct you to some non functional website.
It’s most likely some troll.
I don’t think a bug is “changing” a user’s post to nonsense; I think a bug/hack might be letting some bad actor impersonate legitimate users or something like that.
Oh ok. That is not what your post says, though.
I don’t see how that would be the case, unless the hacker is 5 years old.