I don’t know how to crosspost properly.
I think this is a serious design flaw. If you agree please upvote the post on lemmy.ml community for visibility
I hadn’t even come across it yet but holy hell that’s a scammer/malicious actors paradise.
Yeah this seems like a pretty huge oversight. I’d file an issue on GitHub ASAP.
On Kbin’s end the thread ID is 57540 and the appended text is simply a hint to what is on the other side of the link (i.e. it doesn’t change anything). This is standard practice and you see it a lot across the web
Try this: https://kbin.social/m/sysadmin@lemmy.world/t/57540/THLPFWYHYULHDTPUYWHDUYPHWUDUYWHUYDWHUYWHPD
StackOverflow had the same feature until people started abusing it for SEO. After that, they decided to remove that option.
I kinda like it, but it should be operable for the mods (so it flags it for them to check, or whatever automod eventually shows up can hide the post until it’s cleared)…
there was an entire genre of posts where posters would say “ask me any question and then edit your comment to make me look bad”
there were also times i’d call out a racist and they’d edit their comment to make it look like i’d called out as racist someone who was saying something totally innocuous. but then i was usually not the only one doing it, and the comments in questions usually got downvoted to oblivion, not to mention the time-of-edit indicators, so anybody with half a brain cell could figure out exactly what had happened.
