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What is up with all the people commenting "agajaoa" or other variations of keyboard smashing recently?
I know they have always been around, and it is a way to get points for answering questions, but what is up with the sheer volume of them recently? They are everywhere and there are multiple per question.
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- .Lv 72 years agoFavorite Answer
Those are from a spam bot attack that began in earnest on 12/28/18. Automated programs creating accounts and spamming the site with nonsense. They aren't posted by live users (at least most of them aren't, there are some live users playing copy-cat to point game). We're hoping Oath will put a stop to it soon but we don't know when that will happen as the last bot attack, last spring, took weeks to resolve.
- DanielLv 72 years ago
Just Point gaming They will go away once Yahoo comes up with a Solution to Get Rid of them Unfortunately when they Attack the Yahoo Answers System its not as Easy to get Rid of them Yahoo has to Figure out a way to Block them from there Filters takes a lot of Reprogramming and Adjusting
Hopefully Yahoo will get the Community Moderation Reporting System up and Running soon and they will start Dropping
