vote/comment bots

Recently a couple of programs have received massive amounts of votes, comments, and/or Tip&Thanks. All of the comments and tips and thanks are from accounts with nothing but one or two spam comments trying to have you join some discord server. The accounts all seem to have randomly generated names and seem to be created recently.

Here are the programs I have found to be affected.

Minekhan received 14000+ votes, 1000+ comments on multiple Tip&Thank, and one Tip&Thank has 5000+ votes. Link: https://www.khanacademy.org/computer-programming/minekhan/5647155001376768
Woah received 7000+ votes and many Tips&Thanks. Link: https://www.khanacademy.org/computer-programming/woah/4931174354862080
Warlock Roguelike received man Tips&Thanks. Link: https://www.khanacademy.org/computer-programming/-warlock-roguelike-/4765601050345472

I would suggest disabling all comments/votes/Tip&Thanks temporarily because me and many other people have received hundreds of spam notifications. Please if you can return the affected programs back to their original amount of votes.

x.asper

23 augustus 2021 12:10

Yeah, my notifs are still broken.

Maybe they should beef up their cybersecurity around this issue.

AquA217 (Alyanna)

23 augustus 2021 12:15

Yeah, maybe a reCaptcha will work.

Evan Lewis

23 augustus 2021 20:51

Hi Blaze Programming,

Thanks for sharing this!

Our team is aware of the issue and is actively investigating the situation. We are also working on a few security measures to help prevent the creation of spam accounts in the future.

If you see any weird behavior that could be indicative of spam users, please flag the posts and report the users via a new support ticket so that we can investigate it. We take moderation very seriously, and creating accounts for the purposes of spamming other users is a violation of our Terms of Service and will lead to a permanent suspension from the site.

Thanks for your help!

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