Surprising that this bug hit only NSFW and LGBT subs no? Almost sounds like there’s a shortlist to run through with such scripts.

  • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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    4 hours ago

    this may have been an error, like a script being run in prod that shouldn’t have been but it was not a bug. That isn’t a technical assessment, it is a human assessment.

    True as that may be, it’s very suspicious that the only subs affected by this bug where porn and lgbt ones. I posit they were working off a predefined subreddit shortlist which are already on the chopping block.

    • modifier@lemmy.ca
      7·
      4 hours ago

      Yes certainly. Part of the mistake was disclosing that there is some mechanism by which such specific communities can be shut down so quickly. You can disclose that capability by accident, but you can’t have that capability by accident.