How did this website get so full of spam bots? It didn't seem this way only a year ago?

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ThIS attack is 2 MONTHS old is why. Yahoo had major security breaches in 2011, 2013 AND 2016. China attacked major businesses in 2010, including Sony and Google. Yahoo's executive magment team decided Yahoo could NOT AFFORD better security. Then Verizon BOUGHT Yahoo, but the nigotions for the PRICE ahd already concluded when the 2013 security breach was announced. Verizon got a DISCOUNT. while ANOTHER security breach was happening.. You CANNOT make this stuff up..

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/29/technology/yahoo-data-breach-hacking.html?_r=1

https://www.wsj.com/articles/yahoo-triples-estimate-of-breached-accounts-to-3-billion-1507062804

http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-yahoo-data-breach-20160923-snap-story.html

Now there are people Claiming Yahoo, which is DEAD, is PAYING people to spam Yahoo,. to drive people away. The reason Verizon BOUGHT Yahoo was to entice YAHOO customers to become PAYING Verizon customers. How
many people PAY Yahoo OR Verizon for premium email accounts? VERY FEW.....Show more

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The posts you refer to come from spam bots, but one or more humans are programming them. They are being paid by the company they are posting for, to enhance search engine optimization for that company (or so it appeared when the posts began many weeks ago). We don't know when or if Yahoo will take action, although whomever is running YA’s Facebook page commented on 7-16-18 that it was being worked on (that comment was in reply to another user’s answer to a question about favorite flavor of ice cream, if you want to verify it). All we can do is report them, ignore them, or leave YA. The posts are ALL OVER the site. Hopefully they will be dealt with soon. MANY questions have been asked about this already (it amazes me so few people think to check in the Answers category to see if a problem with the site has already been addressed). The site's been heavily flooded with them since the weekend of 7/7/18....Show more

Because I dont think its being monitored / mediated now....Show more