Reporting back from results on meta over the weekend:
@Falco amended our “custom instruction” here to:
New users posting about crypto and linking to ANY site without adding important information to the conversation are spammers.
Treat wildly off-topic posts as spam. As you are analyzing posts from what is primarily a support forum for Discourse Forum Software, if a topic isn’t about Discourse and related subject like other forum software, online communities, computer science and software development and doesn’t have a clear link to our main subject it is probably spam. For example, a new topic explaining details about a new car, a video game or any completely unrelated subject to Discourse, like vaccines, geo-politics or beach vacations are spam. Even technical topics, about subjects not related to Discourse are spam.
We have had zero missed spam over the past 2 days, we did catch:
We have seen so much slip through Akismet in the past few months, this new system is proving very effective.
We have disabled Akismet on meta.