I don’t know how to crosspost properly.
I think this is a serious design flaw. If you agree please upvote the post on lemmy.ml community for visibility
Yeah this seems like a pretty huge oversight. I’d file an issue on GitHub ASAP.
I hadn’t even come across it yet but holy hell that’s a scammer/malicious actors paradise.
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/sysadmin@lemmy.world/t/57540/THLPFWYHYULHDTPUYWHDUYPHWUDUYWHUYDWHUYWHPDStackOverflow had the same feature until people started abusing it for SEO. After that, they decided to remove that option.
I kinda like it, but it should be operable for the mods (so it flags it for them to check, or whatever automod eventually shows up can hide the post until it’s cleared)…
You could have done that on reddit as well