Right now, the only way admins can specify manual spam classifiers is using case-insensitive regex. However, this has proved to be insufficient to me on PyTorch forums that I’ve been running. I’ve also enabled Akismet, but it isn’t doing a great job of filtering the kind of spam I’m seeing. To giv…

Have you changed default trust level settings or any other new user rate limits? This looks like bamwar to me, and our built in fast typist check generally stops that sort of thing. Plus you have Akismet. So I’d like to hear more about any non-default security or trust level site settings you might …

I haven’t changed any of the defaults for trust level settings, or new user rate limits. Occasionally, some of the spam does get caught by the fast typist filter, but it’s only occasional. I think the spammers figured out something around this. I’ve changed the spam filter settings to be much more …

You are confident Akismet is configured and working?

Yes. My confidence in it’s working is because occasionally Akismet asks me to confirm that something’s spam. So posts are going through it and it’s classifying them. But it doesn’t classify the bamwar spam, it classifies spam of a different kind (lots of nonsensical characters in the post with a ti…

What do you do when you find spam posts on your site? Do you delete them or flag as spam and Take action? I think that only the latter sends the post to Akismet as an example of spam – doing this a few times should teach it to recognize this. :slight_smile:

What I recommend doing here is just adding: auto block first post regex : \p{Hangul}{3} If a first post contains more than 3 korean letters, chuck it in the require approval queue.

@fefrei I flag the post, but there’s an immediate option that shows up to Delete Spammer and ban IP (also deletes all posts by the user). This is convenient because each user usually posts thrice, and this is one button that kills three birds. I suspect this does not report the posts to Akismet, I’…

Too bad, looks like this is the correct way to go. I find it a bit weird that Akismet didn’t get that – but the RegExp from @sam should help a lot :slight_smile:

just wanted to follow up here. @sam ’s trick works really really great. Thanks @sam .

Since the topic was automatically bumped, I’d like to say that I’ve been using the Akismet plugin and I find it very effective. [image] Discourse Akismet Plugin discourse2 Summary Discourse Akismet allows you to fight spam with Akismet , an algorithm used …

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Since the topic was automatically bumped, I’d like to say that I’ve been using the Akismet plugin and I find it very effective.

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