An odd title I know but it serves a purpose as explained below.

What Happened: /r/Plano had an influx of ~100 spam posts, while also simultaneously having a mass reporting incident on posts going back months.

These posts were all made by unique brand new accounts. Most of the posts were random gibberish revolving around themes of art and fitness

So if your post has been removed recently without a mod message accompanying it, it was likely erroneously done so by the abuse of the automod system. We have gone through the reporting and tried to reinstate the posts removed or reported in error.

What Does Texas Star Pharmacy Have To Do With This?: For the past month several of the older, heavily upvoted, largely commented on posts about the Texas Star Pharmacy raid and arrests have been receiving random bouts of reporting. These reports have been for everything from spam, targeted harassment, abuse of minors, etc. They are clearly being done by either a paid for service, or someone creating a lot of burner accounts. Each time we have reinstated the posts or the comments because obviously none of those complaints are true and the users are merely posting the news story.

Are these things connected? Probably not, but it definitely is odd timing considering yesterday we got the first update in the Texas Star Pharmacy case since 6 months ago. And the bot attack happened 14 hours ago around 7pm last night. Also if you search "Texas Star Pharmacy case" on google, our subreddit is the second thing that often pops up.

https://planomagazine.com/pharmacy-indictment-dismissed/