So this is a “How would you handle it?” question. I have a customer support forum and had a person come on the forum and post a very legitimate question, the question was promptly answered and the post was buried as is natural. Eight days later this person came back and edited his post replacing t…

That’s a very clever and devoted spammer! You might reduce the time allowed to edit a post.

The simplest thing that comes to mind is limiting the number of minuts available to edit your post by modifying the site setting post edit time limit.

There is a specific plugin that would handle this situation: https://github.com/discourse/discourse-moderator-attention I believe it works like this: Modifications / new posts on the end bump the visibility of the topic in the topic list and once a moderator has read the post it would return to i…

Food for Thought: Do edits run through Akismet? Should they? Especially if the edit happened after several days and the User is TL 1 or less?

Good question! @eviltrout I think TL0 edits should go through Akismet but this might be a big change?

I took a peek at the code I wrote and it seems like it wouldn’t be an awful amount of work to add a new state of edited and have it go through Akismet. The time consuming part is testing it to make sure it all works as expected. I’m a bit busy right now but probably someone else on the team could ha…

Has this changed happened? Wiki edit spam is still very much a thing.

No, instead we did trust level based edit time limits. So people at TL0 and TL1 have far smaller allowed edit windows out of the box – 24 hours. TL2 users get 30 days..

Ok so does wiki edit spam have any mitigations now?

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) November 16, 2019, 2:49am 12

Is this a serious problem? I mean, we have no evidence it’s actually happening. I don’t take action based on hearsay or theory.

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