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. | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 I see none. I added the emojis from impersonators to my Amethsyt filter too.
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Derek Ross | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Why are they using emojis? That seems odd. Is it to take up more space?
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jb55 | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 they are replacing random words with emojis so you can't do duplicate content blocking
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. | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Makes sense.
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Derek Ross | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Okay that makes sense.
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Derek Ross | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 How's your efforts been with mitigation?
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jb55 | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 haven't got around to it yet, I plan on hacking on noteguard again on the plane soon. lots of stuff I want to try wrt. ip blocking frequent posters beyond the rate limiter.
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theduck | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Spam is done now. The extra rate limiting helped but a permanent IP ban would be really nice too. It was all coming from a single EC2 instance (with occasional IP rotation).
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jb55 | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 yeah should be easy to stop in that case, until they start seriously rotating ips, but then maybe we could detect spam from ip blocks and block ranges instead.
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. | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I think the emojis were an attempt to get people to follow the impersonator accounts nd get them into WoT with lots of attention grabbing things.