My forum Coding Forum - Developers Discussions and Problem-Solving on ShakaCode Forum got overrun with spam in the past few weeks! It’s so much that I can’t manually go into every message. [image] How can I search and bulk delete spam? I’m using [image] Should I install this: [im…

Those all got past akismet? That seems surprising. Did they do something to get to tl1 and bypass akismet? Since they are so similar you can look at Administrative Bulk Operations to see ways to delete them all (I think it should have an example).

:wave: That’s a lot of spam! As far as I know, there isn’t a way to bulk process flags. There is on open Contribute > Feature request though. I see you have 2 inactive admins on your site. I didn’t look at how active your community is, but have you considered granting a trusted member moderator to …

With 590, I need to bulk approve! [image]

Setting up spam detection in your community Discourse AI Post Classifier What about that plugin? Akismet good enough? [image] Jay Pfaffman: tl1 What is that?

[image] Justin Gordon: that plugin You need both the Discourse AI and Discourse Automation plugin for the post classifier to work. Additionally, you will need a LLM [1] . These can get expensive especially if it has to make a lot of calls. I’d say Akismet is good enough at accurately detectin…

[image] ondrej: tl1 means Trust Level 1 which is a Basic user. And if you’re using akismet, it has a setting to determine which trust levels it applies to.

Is there a feature request somewhere I can vote for? My site is getting slammed by what seems like Discourse-aware AI-generated spam. I’d like to be able to display the review queue with checkboxes, click Select All to select all of them, skim to uncheck any legitimate posts, and take the same acti…

I describe how to get the AI to test it and then delete the ones it caught here: Spam: Retroactively get AI to review recent posts and then delete the ones marked as spam It has the advantage of being a solution that’s available now. It’s far more complicated than a few clicks, though.

I’m dubious of having AI delete automatically as there might be a legit post somewhere among the messages. Currently almost all the spam is going to the review queue, which I’m ignoring as it’s too much work to mark them spam one by one. Since yesterday, 210 messages have been added by the AI spam …

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) September 11, 2024, 7:28pm 7

And if you’re using akismet, it has a setting to determine which trust levels it applies to.

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