I've noticed that studio, project, and profile comments are turned off across scratch. Why? Did something happen?

there was spammers and the filterbot is broken

Quantity08 wrote:

there was spammers and the filterbot is broken

To add to that, the filterbot didn’t filter anything, and there were spammers abusing the absence of a filter, so the Scratch Team had to temporarily turn them off until they fixed it up.

Super_Scratch_Bros20 wrote:

Quantity08 wrote:

there was spammers and the filterbot is broken

To add to that, the filterbot didn’t filter anything, and there were spammers abusing the absence of a filter, so the Scratch Team had to temporarily turn them off until they fixed it up.

oh, ok

that was since 12th of April 2022

Super_Scratch_Bros20 wrote:

To add to that, the filterbot didn’t filter anything, and there were spammers abusing the absence of a filter, so the Scratch Team had to temporarily turn them off until they fixed it up.

uh sorry if I ask this but what type of spam and where?