# Discourse anti-spam bot going insane

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-anti-spam-bot-going-insane/391402
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 15, 2025, 11:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-anti-spam-bot-going-insane/391402 "2025-12-15T23:00:53Z")
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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2025, 6:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-anti-spam-bot-going-insane/391402/17 "2025-12-19T06:10:05Z")

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The fundamental thing is that if humans are on the forum just posting stuff that highly resembles spam you are going to need to adjust the custom prompt in the admin section to be extremely lax.

If people are just chatting back and forth why not simply use Discourse chat?

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