In some ways, it reminds me of the war in Kosovo, when Serbian posters invaded USENET to unironically denounce us for “supporting Nazis” [1]. They made the newsgroups where I used to go unusable. After the war ended, I thought “I’ll try it again” but the spammers had seen how a determined minority could make things unusable for the majority. [2]

[1] In WW2, Croatians looked at invaders from Germany and Italy as rescuers against Serbia. Thus Serbia claimed that anyone who opposed them was Nazi.

[2] I know most USENET clients had killfiles and so on, but I didn’t know how to use them, so I did the next best thing and dumped USENET entirely.