There have been multiple accounts created with the sole purpose of posting advertisement posts or replies containing unsolicited advertising.

Accounts which solely post advertisements, or persistently post them may be terminated.

trent ,
@trent@kbin.social avatar

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/[email protected]/t/57540/THLPFWYHYULHDTPUYWHDUYPHWUDUYWHUYDWHUYWHPD

18107 ,

StackOverflow had the same feature until people started abusing it for SEO. After that, they decided to remove the option.

ilickfrogs ,
@ilickfrogs@lemmy.world avatar

I hadn’t even come across it yet but holy hell that’s a scammer/malicious actors paradise.

njinx ,

Yeah this seems like a pretty huge oversight. I’d file an issue on GitHub ASAP.

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