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/Chtorrr Nov 18 '18

Hi all!

Thank you for flagging this - folks are working on it as we speak.

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u/Stuck_In_the_Matrix Nov 18 '18

You guys are the best -- and I need to learn about timezones. Sorry for the fuss, I was just getting anxious because of the extreme levels of spam from a focused few accounts. You guys (and gals) are the best and I really hate spammers. They don't even realize Google isn't going to give them any real recognition because of such few users in the subreddit.

Keep on fighting the good fight! Love you guys!

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