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…

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

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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this is the way if you have the bandwidth to do so

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