First it started with promoting airline helpline numbers, now it’s moved onto quickbooks help. Around 150 threads started in the last 10 hours. I’ve found the discourse spam filtering pretty efficient and don’t usually have to delete any more than a couple threads/users at a time for it to stop but…

I think there have been a few reports of this recently. You can find some tips on how to mitigate this here: [image] Tips for Preventing Spam Site Management bookmark This documentation provides a comprehensive guide on preventing spam in Discourse forums, and …

[image] WaitroseCarpark: I’m guessing it will just die off but wondering if anyone else is suffering from this right now? We do get customers suffering from spam attacks at various times, not just isolated to this week or next. It could be 1-2 communities this week, and then 2-3 communities n…

There was a topic about a similar attack, as it seems to have hit many Discourse instances, but I can’t find it; it seems it has been deleted? :thinking: I was advised using ai as well. I didn’t use it at this time so I did two things: I prevented new attacks on my instances by installing Stop Fo…

Thanks for the responses, I wasn’t aware the AI plugin dealt with spam as well. Will set that up now and see how I get on. Thanks all!!

Great, let us know your feedback if you have any. Hilarious username / name btw.

Here’s what I did to deal with what sounds like the same attack. [image] Spam: Retroactively get AI to review recent posts and then delete the ones marked as spam Sysadmins I helped out a site that got hit about about 30 spam posts per hour. We turned on AI Sp…

Anyone else currently undergoing mass spam attack?

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In addition to the other solutions : As your first reflex was to stop users from registrating I guess this spam came from very recent users and that this was not setup :

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