A few questions related to moderation

[Heliosurge (Dan DeMontmorency)]

Discourse is pretty broad.

A couple of useful categories that use the new Doc-categories plugin (sidebar might be better to access). However click these 2 links

Documentation
A couple of Topics there(there are more):

Tips for Preventing Spam

This documentation provides a comprehensive guide on preventing spam in Discourse forums, and includes information about various settings and tools designed to help maintain a spam-free community environment. Required user level: Administrator On most forums spam is rare. However, if you’re having problems with spam on your site, Discourse comes with numerous tools to help you automatically prevent spam. The following guide offers some recommendations on how…

Setting up spam detection in your community

This is a how-to guide for setting up spam detection in your community using the Discourse AI - AI triage. Required user level: Administrator Discourse AI now ships an efficient spam scanner that requires minimal setup. For custom or complex use cases, we recommend following this guide Overview Spam detection is an essential feature for maintaining the quality of discussions in your community. This guide will help you set up spam detection using…

#community-wiki

Configuring automatic post review triggers

This guide explains the various settings and options for requiring post approval in Discourse. You’ll learn how these settings interact and best practices for implementation. Summary Requiring approval for posts can be beneficial in several scenarios, such as: Preventing spam and inappropriate content Maintaining quality control in professional or academic forums Moderating discussions in sensitive or controversial topics Managing communities with strict content guidelines Discourse offers s…

To search these categories use the following in search

This will search Documentation Category

#documentation your search term

This will search community wiki

#community-wiki your search term

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There are also some plugins that can help as well. If you’re hosted you will need to see if they are available in your plan. If your self hosted you have more free reign to install plugins but may need help if the site breaks and you’re unable to fix.

Some plugins

Stop Forum Spam Plugin

Overview The Stop Forum Spam plugin (unofficial) can help weed out human spammers who are able to bypass Discourse’s built-in spam tools (thanks to their awesome human powers). Right after a new user signs up on your forum (before they have time to post), this plugin will check the user’s email address, forum username, and/or IP address (depending on your plugin settings) against the Stop Forum Spam database. If the user is found in this database of known spammers, their user account will be imm…

This one below is an Official plugin so less chance of breaking.

Discourse Akismet

Summary Discourse Akismet allows you to fight spam with Akismet, an algorithm used by millions of sites to combat spam automatically. Repository Link https://github.com/discourse/discourse-akismet Install Guide How to install plugins in Discourse Features What does it do? Akismet helps keep your site free of spam by automatically scanning all posts from new users. Scanned posts that Akismet flags as spam are immediately removed f…