Continuing the discussion from "Chopped" Spam in New User Profiles : As mentioned in the linked topic, we started to get a lot of accounts with 250-character Spam profiles after we switched to SSO. Six days ago, the language of the Spam, and the associated e-mail addresses, changed to Polish, and s…

[immagine] TechnoBear: we started to get a lot of accounts with 250-character Spam profiles after we switched to SSO One thing that is confusing me here is that the source of the problem would be the SSO origin, shouldn’t the origin where accounts are registered be in charge of making sure le…

[immagine] TechnoBear: no IP addresses recorded for these I wonder if this might be related to the relatively new login that was put in place a while ago. i.e. instead of the modal it goes to a “site-wide” page. I have noticed that when I log out, it appears that I have logged out. Yet aft…

Were you some how reading our Slack coversation where I said the same thing :wink: No, in all seriousness, I believe that to be 100% correct. SSO is bypassing the spam counter-measures that Discourse has by default by being a JavaScript heavy application. In the meantime for those who also use SSO…

[immagine] sam: shouldn’t the origin where accounts are registered be in charge of making sure less spam accounts register in the first place? Yes indeed. I’m just interested in whether other sites have had a similar experience, or whether we’ve found a unique way to screw up. [immagine] …

Hmmm where are we at these days on this issue?

We at the I-Novae Studios forum are getting attention from like-bots/accounts. They all have links in their pop-up bio, ranging from indigo, 9gag, facebook, to some random sites I’m certain are better left unvisited. A ‘set’ of them seem to be active for a few days, then go quiet, only to be replace…

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I strongly recommend you upgrade from Discourse 1.9 to start! There are critical security fixes you’ll want.

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