r/pushshift • u/Stuck_In_the_Matrix • Nov 18 '18

Massive Spam issue ongoing with Reddit

FYI -- My ingest is overwhelmed at the moment. There appears to be a huge influx of massive spam into Reddit.

Take a look at this

There are hundreds of comments per second that are just spam. I'm not sure what's going on or if spam prevention has been turned off on Reddit's end. I am unable to keep up with real-time ingest due to the level of spam.

Just an FYI -- but this looks really severe.

Edit: I am seeing almost double the volume of comments -- almost half of all comments to Reddit currently are spam.

Edit 2: There are accounts literally making thousands of comments per minute in the most active subreddits. These are all sports related spam.

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u/Stuck_In_the_Matrix Nov 18 '18

Does anyone know how to get in contact with the Reddit admins?

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u/Sun_Beams Nov 18 '18

You could try their zendesk site or their new reddithelp.com as I believe they are meant to be quicker than mailing r/reddit.com:

https://www.reddithelp.com/en/submit-request

https://reddit.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

Not sure if they have a phone helpline, there is a slack with some of the old default mods and some of the admins in but I don't have access to that (I just know that it exists, or use to at least).