Let me tell you a little tale, see if this has happened to anyone else...

About 2 am, I received a notification of a new post in the /r/alcohol modqueue (I was fully awake anyway, so I decided to handle it).

Looked over the submitted link, and it was a blog post about alcoholic energy drinks, and how to safely drink them. There were a few other other drinks-related articles on the blog, so everything looked on the up and up. Approved!

Back to bed with me, then.

About 7 am, I'm up for the day. Open up Reddit, and there's 18 reports waiting, all for the approved link from 2 am, marking it as "Anti-Alcohol Rhetoric" (a grave offense in /r/alcohol).

So I check the link, thinking we had another wave of fake reporters again.

Sure enough, the article that was approved had been replaced. Same domain, same URL, but now it was a full page ad for "Alcohol Addiction Treatment Services." Going through my browser history, the other links from the site that I had visited now pointed at the same ad. THEY CHANGED THE SITE AFTER GETTING APPROVED!

Of course I immediately removed the submission and banned the domain via AM.

So the spammers have stepped up their game. Guess I should as well.

Anyone else encountered a submission that changes after approval?