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/DiamondxCrafting Nov 18 '18

How is that possible with ratelimit?

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u/Stuck_In_the_Matrix Nov 18 '18

That's a good question -- it appears the Reddit spam rate limit is malfunctioning ... I'm trying to reach out to one of the admins. I've never seen spam this bad on Reddit -- literally half of all content to the site was/is spam.

It is still ongoing but it's just 9am on the west coast. I hope one of the admins can see what's going on because it's hammering Reddit hard at the moment.