Originally Posted by
tomgoodman
What was their sinister purpose? Advertising a product or service is pointless if nobody can read the ad. Perhaps it was a cyber-attack by North Korea?

I like to think that North Korea got a bigger fish to fry than messing w/ our Community... stay tuned, all items have been prioritized and we got devs working on both of them. I'll get back to all w/ an ETA.
As far as stopping the spammers though, that's something that we should have taken care of already.
Huge thanks to the mods of the Community who took care of this from the front line.