# Bots spamming forum

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/bots-spamming-forum/340704>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [December 5, 2024, 6:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bots-spamming-forum/340704 "2024-12-05T18:49:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hamzah\_Alani](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hamzah_alani/32/470467_2.png) [@Hamzah\_Alani](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Hamzah_Alani)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2024, 6:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bots-spamming-forum/340704/1 "2024-12-05T18:49:28Z")

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Bots have been attacking our forum and our mod team has grow tired from deleting their posts. This started sometime last month, then stopped for a short while and started again now. Is this a discourse issue or what?

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/5/e/b/5eb116395b79791ca86ffd43bc297ca5e941ac46.png)

Also the previous admin retired and the current one isn’t very active, so keep in mind that we’re somewhat new to discourse and the backend side of it, and would appreciate any help with this.

And we have filtered common words the spammers use, but we’ve realized that they make a post with random characters, then edit the post into their advertisement to avoid the filters.

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