Hi everyone, I’ve been using discourse for ~9 years over at Home Assistant. I’ve been a mod for a number of years as well. Recently, we’ve seen a huge influx of spammers. I’m wondering what we can do to alleviate the problems. First, it seems like the keywords, regex, etc take some time before p…

One option switch to new user approval. Raise trust level on categories using solved plugin to tl1 or tl2. Restrict new users to only certain categories.

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): [imagem] Tips for Preventing Spam Site Management …

[imagem] Dan DeMontmorency: One option switch to new user approval. We did that, it ends up with 100 mod approvals or more a day. Pretty much all new users make a post. If there was a mass approval process, it wouldn’t be as daunting. New users were also creating multiple first posts becau…

[imagem] Dan DeMontmorency: Restrict new users to only certain categories Sadly that’s not helpful in the HA forum at all, as the new users are the ones most likely to need help. We have tried new user approval and also requiring approval for the first few posts, but it just increases the mo…

[imagem] petr0: [imagem] Heliosurge: Raise trust level on categories using solved plugin to tl1 or tl2. How do we do that specifically for that plugin Category setup, Security Tab Delete Everyone. See/Create/Reply (or just delete Create/reply) Add Trust Level X(1 to 4). See/Create…

[imagem] petr0: [imagem] Heliosurge: One option switch to new user approval. We did that, it ends up with 100 mod approvals or more a day. Pretty much all new users make a post. If there was a mass approval process, it wouldn’t be as daunting There is unfortunately no easy way that I a…

Does that only effect adding a solution checkbox? Or does that limit all functionality related to posting?

[imagem] petr0: They create a topic, then they reply to the topic and mark the reply as a solution. When we go to delete / block this spamer, Discourse returns a 500 error specifically due to the solution checkbox. For some reason, you can’t delete a user who has a solution. This feels to me …

I tend to agree, however I wasn’t trying to rock the boat on my first post

[imagem] petr0: Does that only effect adding a solution checkbox? Or does that limit all functionality related to posting? On a category using solved plugin set category security permissions as follows Everyone See/Create Trust Level 1 See/create/reply Can see and create topic. Can still…

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Heliosurge (Dan DeMontmorency) Janeiro 14, 2025, 8:33pm 7

Configuração da categoria, aba Segurança

Excluir
Todos. Ver/Criar/Responder (ou apenas excluir Criar/responder)

Adicionar
Nível de Confiança X (1 a 4). Ver/Criar/Responder

Se você alterar todos para Apenas Ver, eles poderão ver os tópicos, mas não poderão criar ou responder.

Há outra aba nas configurações da categoria onde você pode configurar o texto a ser exibido quando um usuário não pode postar.

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