[nkozyra]

This is just streaming spam and any site that accepts user-generated content is susceptible to it.

Having been on their side it can sometimes be very difficult to mitigate without manual approval. This is not automated - it's done by humans and they adjust their patterns against any automatic mitigation attempts.

[shadowgovt]

> This is just streaming spam and any site that accepts user-generated content is susceptible to it.

Not if the site polices user-generated content.

[aaron695]

> This is just streaming spam

It's fraud not spam, you never got to watch the fight after paying - https://ici.radio-canada.ca/recit-numerique/2140/adcenter-hy...

And 6 weeks ago it might have been ISIS spam or a link to a exe or phishing.

> and any site that accepts user-generated content is susceptible to it

This site doesn't have user-generated content/events/calendar, it's employee generated.

[nkozyra]

> This site doesn't have user-generated content/events/calendar, it's employee generated.

That's incorrect. There's a call to action to register to submit an event here:

https://www.gp.org/earth_day_to_may_day_events_calendar

That's how the spam got in.

Edit: here, I made one for you: https://www.gp.org/janon/aaron695_hello

Edit2: it's deleted, looks like someone is finally doing cleanup

[aaron695]

Apologises. You are correct. Good find

They did the same with a 'job ad' on the hosts web site -

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:2Uw0_n...