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?
https://lemmy.world/modlog/3902,
ctrl-ffor “spam” or “rule 4”(ordered from newest to oldest)
https://lemmy.world/post/30789291 by daniel_callahan @ jlai.lu
https://lemmy.world/post/30245366 by dwazou @ jlai.lu
https://lemmy.world/post/29941517 by dwazou @ lemm.ee
I’ve also noticed that in the “dwazou” cases the post was later edited to remove the link and change the title to “permanently deleted”. The dwazou @ lemm.ee user account has apparently been deleted, but the other two accounts appear to still be active and posting legitimate content.
Also, the community I mod isn’t the only one this is happening to. See also https://lemmy.world/post/30720233, for example.
I think “permanently deleted” is when a mod or admin deletes their content administratively.