#reddit continues to be overwhelmed by spam comments. Over the past 48 hours, seven of the top ten most active subreddits by comment volume have all been spam.
Over 4 million comments in the past 48 hours have been spam comments promoting online sports videos.
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Over the past month, there have been tens of millions of spam comments made to Reddit. Here's a sample of the most active spam subreddits over the past month where close to 100% of the comments were eventually deleted.
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It looks like Reddit removes the author information almost immediately for this spam. The objects are still available, but the author data is [deleted].