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Timeline for Korean spam attack?

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Oct 6, 2019 at 12:55 comment added tripleee For those trying to reconstruct the event, it started with metasmoke.erwaysoftware.com/post/200985 (currently on page 2 of the metasmoke search results for this particular reason) and ended with metasmoke.erwaysoftware.com/post/201177 (still the first result for the search) for a total of 92 posts promoting 16 distinct domains in .net and .com with a link obfuscation using a comma and whitespace.
Oct 3, 2019 at 11:59 history edited Glorfindel CC BY-SA 4.0
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Oct 3, 2019 at 11:56 comment added Glorfindel Ah, you're right. The last spam wave I've seen was conducted by unregistered accounts, that's why I was suggesting that. But the Community Managers do have other tools at their disposal.
Oct 3, 2019 at 11:54 comment added Kulfy I don't think disabling "anonymous" write access would be fruitful. Sites such as Ask Ubuntu require registration for posting.
Oct 3, 2019 at 11:45 history edited Glorfindel CC BY-SA 4.0
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Oct 3, 2019 at 11:44 comment added tripleee The link is just to recent posts, maybe link to a slice from a specific time period?
Oct 3, 2019 at 11:35 history answered Glorfindel CC BY-SA 4.0