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] Also the previous admin retired and the current one isn’t very active, s…

If you’re not using Akismet, that will likely catch at least most of it. It’ll require your admin to configure it, though. [image] Discourse Akismet Plugin discourse2 Summary Discourse Akismet allows you to fight spam with Akismet , an algorithm used by …

Looks like there are some consistencies with how the spam is worded, which can help — consider adding “helpline” to watched words (also covered in the spam guide) Watched Words Reference Guide

Thanks everyone for the help, I’ll look into Akismet and the other methods that have been mentioned. [image] Kris: consider adding “helpline” to watched words We’ve done that but sadly these bots found a nice workaround— they make a post with random text to avoid the watched words, then afte…

[image] Hamzah Alani: We’ve done that but sadly these bots found a nice workaround— they make a post with random text to avoid the watched words, then after making the post and it gets approved they edit it into their spam… not to compliment the spammers but that’s kinda smart I think that wh…

It will work if you disable new users from editing. edit post allowed groups You can disable tl0 from this setting

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If you haven’t already, you may also want to take a look at Tips for Preventing Spam

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