# Difficulties reporting unusual spam across multiple forums

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**Category:** General\
**Tags:** spam\
**Created:** [July 17, 2025, 10:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/difficulties-reporting-unusual-spam-across-multiple-forums/374716 "2025-07-17T22:28:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ed\_S](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ed_s/32/134015_2.png) [@Ed\_S](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ed_S)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2025, 5:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/difficulties-reporting-unusual-spam-across-multiple-forums/374716/2 "2025-07-18T17:52:23Z")

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> [@simon-smart88](#):
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> reply to the posts

I wouldn’t recommend that - ideally you’d flag the posts. Which maybe as a new signup you can’t - but for that, I’d say don’t try to fix the whole internet! Flag bad posts on the forums you regularly use.

I do agree of course that this kind of spam, and most spam, is annoying and takes up community time and moderator time. A central clearinghouse of bad patterns might be an idea. Or, possibly, central barriers to access and account creation might help: stopforumspam is already a free-to-use public repo of bad accounts. The likes of CloudFlare might well block the bots or the IP addresses which are acting badly.

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