So just a fun update for any spammer-hating individuals that may be curious, as well as those who have seen our recent visit of snapchat spammers.

As a brief catch up, we've had some snapchat spammers that make a half-assed post, include a snapchat username, and it's likely either to get people to pay for stuff, to get their usernames, or to attack some victim. Regardless, we don't tolerate it, Reddit doesn't tolerate it, and a number of their accounts have already been banned by reddit...but we're taking it a step further. ;)

All of their posts have various, minor characteristics in common. As such, we've did some work on our Auto Moderator script to target and remove the spam posts without notifying that user, resulting in one of two outcomes:

1. We no longer get snapchat spammers as it removes their crap and they aren't intelligent enough to figure it out.
2. Our changes force them to change how they spam every subreddit they target, making them work harder, only for us to then update the Auto Moderator to continue blocking their crap.

Either way, we win, we got to rub crap in the face of some spammers, and we don't have to worry about nearly as much spam in the future... Hopefully someone enjoyed reading this or also takes sick satisfaction in combating spam.

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Anyways there's the minor update. Cheers!