My site was under a massive spam attack recently. Thanks to @Moin & @HAWK for their quick help, I was able to control the spam to a huge extent.
Now, I’m seriously considering Akismet plugin so my weekends can be peaceful. Any feedback on it? Or would you recommend any other spam control plugins?
Since it auto-flags and all, I’d say it’s quite useful.
You can take a look at spam-stopping-relared plugins here:
https://github.com/TannerFilip/discourse-spam-check
I’ll start off by saying, I’m not a great programmer. This is the first “real” tool I’ve written that’s (potentially) useful to people other than me. I’d love any feedback/criticism you have.
I’ve written a Python script that scans through the list of suspect and/or silenced users and lets you delete them if necessary. I ran it over on Mozilla’s Discourse and deleted a few dozen accounts - this was only after I deleted close to a hundred by h…
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…