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Chinese sextortion scammers are flooding Twitter
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"The new verification system will prevent bot spam!" - Some rich guy who has no idea how the internet works
Seriously, it's been such a pain reading Chinese content on Twitter/X/whatever. If you post any stuff that says something critical about China, no matter if it's news, opinions, or just shit posts, and have some amount of Chinese speaking followers, you are now guaranteed to have sex-bots spam commenting your every post. And you can't do anything about it, since they have multiple accounts, and some just leave the comment and block you so you can't remove it.
Edit: grammar
Wait, is someone comments on a post, then blocks the OP that comment can't be deleted?
I haven't dealt with them personally before, but I did ask a poster before if they could hide the spam comments, and they said no since they couldn't see it.
Ohhh, OK. So they can't see the comment to even hide it. That is crazy.
This was a change that reddit made to their block system.
And it was criticized for I believe the same reason.
It’s going to be an even bigger mess if Elon goes through with getting rid of block and only leaving people with a mute. There won’t be any way to stop these porn bots.
No, there is a way...
It's called nuking the service all together.
There are a ton on twitter generally, more than 80 percent of my followers on a small account are obvious fake profiles/porn bots. But they don't reply often, they mostly like.