Massive Spam issue ongoing with Reddit

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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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