I just want to know if reports are failing for anyone else and if we need to be making some kind of plea to the admins/moderation teams/developers to try to fix it.

Because not being able to report this obvious spam is a problem.

  • Some admins have been developing and sharing solutions, from regex filters to going down into the databases itself.

    For my small instance and personally, I haven’t seen any new messages in a while now, after adding this regex to the slur filter mechanism:

    (.*(\n)*Hi.*[nN]icole.*[fF]ediverse [cC]hick(.|\n)*)

    Sadly my brain is blanking which instance admins I should credit for that, but it was shared around somewhere.

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      20 hours ago

      Ha, I literally just got a new message with spaces between every letter to try to get around filters like this.

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      I love how useful Regex is. I hate writing Regex. Special shout out to anyone who can do it well.