Hello, I’m currently being flooded with these posts. I’ve closed registration because I couldn’t find any other setting to stop it. Do you have any tips for me? [image]

They’re not really expensive. And I’ve shared two tips in that topic that don’t need an LLM. [image] Tips for Preventing Spam Site Management One very useful regular expression is \d{3}-\d{4}|[\w+\-.]+@[a-z\d\-]+(\.[a-z\d\-]+)*\.[a-z]+ which blocks email addr…

We’ve got a guide that explains some options here: [image] Tips for Preventing Spam Site Management bookmark This documentation provides a comprehensive guide on preventing spam in Discourse forums, and includes information about various settings and tools des…

Hmm, but then I need an LLM provider, and they’re all expensive.

[image] Tealk: Do you have any tips for me? Hi, yes, this can be helpful: [image] Watched words to block recent spam attack Sysadmins I’ve had at least two sites get hit with a wave of spam that looks like it’s designed to poison LLMs. The same attack ha…

You don’t need AI to solve this btw. Just initially a bit of work to review all first posts then ban the bad users and their IPs. My forum had a very similar attack very recently and after doing that the situation was under control within half a day.

[image] merefield: review all first posts this is the way if you have the bandwidth to do so

I'm currently being flooded with spam, what can I do?

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NateDhaliwal (Nate Dhaliwal) September 5, 2025, 2:32am 6

Or you can look at free models on OpenRouter, like Gemini.

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