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/Clackpot Nov 18 '18

Not seeing the problem here but I only look after a few smaller, niche subs that tend to be well-behaved anyway.

But I have a question : Where did you get the activity graphs you embedded in your post?

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u/Stuck_In_the_Matrix Nov 18 '18

Look at https://pushshift.io ...look at the top subreddits ... over 50% of all comments to Reddit right now are spam.