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…

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?

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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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) 11 Outubro , 2017 18:51 2

That’s a very clever and devoted spammer!

You might reduce the time allowed to edit a post.

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