Hi everyone - on the IDX Community , we have the Akismet plugin enabled, but it is failing to stop a spam attack: ["The image is a screenshot of a phone with a dark theme, displaying three topics related to transaction refund money." (Captioned by AI)] I have manually deleted (and flagged/blocked…

Did you change the default trust level site setting or change any of the tl1 requires site settings? That way users can be excluded from Akismet, because by default the skip akismet groups includes all users with trust level 1 and above.

I didn’t change the default settings there, but I just changed it to remove tl1 and adding our moderator/admin team instead: [The image displays a screenshot of a computer program interface, likely a tool for generating text captions for images. (Captioned by AI)] When I looked at the trust leve…

So, it’s skipping posts from tl0, tl1,2,3,4, in this case

[이미지] David_Ghost: it’s skipping posts from tl0 Are you sure? The description says “Don’t submit posts to Akismet if the user is in any of these groups” Why should tl0 users be skipped if that group isn’t added to the setting?

That is my understanding as well. The groups that are listed will be omitted from being flagged by Akismet. To change this question a bit, Akismet does flag some posts as spam: [An image of a computer screen displaying a social media profile with a post. (Captioned by AI)] Is there a way to tel…

@HAWK - thanks. We implemented a lot of those items, and that is now catching most of the spam. Hopefully last question. There are over 400 items flagged for review from the last few hours. Is there a fast way to bulk delete/remove all of these? <a class="lightbox" href="https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/b/a/8/ba8a3f7a6f6a71afeb50af3d989e8a898b26745c.jpeg" data-download-href="/uploads/short-url/qCd0gTGGbnOiHJKW9dyQMC6ahnS.jpeg?dl=1" title="This is a screenshot of a computer interface, displaying an email or message conversation with a subject line "Salman Khan customer care helpline number." (Captioned by AI)" rel="noopener nofollow ugc">[This is a screenshot of a computer interface, disp…

Aksimet Fails to Stop Spam Attack

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HAWK (Hawk) 10월 15, 2024, 1:02오전 7

There are a few other helpful tips at Tips for Preventing Spam (including the hiding of posts threshold) which might be useful.

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Aksimet Fails to Stop Spam Attack

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