One of the most persistent types of spam we get is a foreign language (Indonesian?) come-on for some kind of abortion pill. Since this is always always always garbage and unwanted, and uses terms that are unique to this particular spam that don’t correspond to any English words, I’ve been trying to …

There are a few options - you can block, auto-flag or require-approval on posts which contain certain words: [image] Automatic Actions based on post content (Watched Words) megaphoneAnnouncements New for 1.9 is the ability to take some actions based on watched…

If you are not running the Akismet plugin, you will have a bad time with this kind of stuff. I STRONGLY recommend you install and use the Akismet plugin! There is a reason this plugin defaults on for all our hosting.

[image] codinghorror: If you are not running the Akismet plugin We are. These things come up as flagged; it’s just that it’s unique (and annoying) enough that I was hoping for a way to filter it straight to trash.

And you’ve reported all these as spam in the proper manner, so Akismet gets trained.. and it’s not flagging them as spam? [image] Discourse Akismet Plugin discourse2 Summary Discourse Akismet allows you to fight spam with Akismet , an algorithm used by mi…

Spam filter on message content keywords?

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DrBB (William Bennett) February 11, 2019, 8:59pm 3

YES! That is exactly what we’re looking for. I’ll take it to the admin team and hopefully get it implemented by the senior staff. THANKS!

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Spam filter on message content keywords?

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