I don’t know why they’re doing this and what do they want. Any ideas? Thanks! [17]

Would a “simple” fix be to just block anonymous users from searching for anything that regexes like a domain?

It looks like you could win by simply banning all searches for .cn domains, somehow, but the actual impact is so low here (and what they are doing is so pointlessly ineffective) it’s hard to justify any engineering effort.

Our site is seeing something similar, but slightly different. We appear to have some kind of bot performing a daily search on our forum for a few keywords. Is there a way to block specific search terms? Or, a way to link a search term to an IP address, then in turn to block that IP? These, for e…

Capybara is part of discobot. That you see that is a good sign that discobot is working and people are making it through the new user tutorial. The others I do not recognize. I am not sure what the issue is honestly with having some random keywords on this list. A bit weird, sure, but you are the …

Sorry to revive this old topic, I am facing a lot of the same spam. How would one ban all searches for .cn domains? I’ve already added a filter to the blocked word list, but searches are still coming through [image] Not sure what the point of these are, but it’s extremely annoying to see so muc…

This started happening this week on our site too! For now, the numbers are negligible… [Screenshot 2021-03-09 at 21.43.08]

We’re still getting all manner of useless stuff appearing in our search results. [Screen Shot 2022-07-07 at 20.25.02] I’m guessing its a (search) bot of some sorts as it all comes flooding in on one date, then disappears for another month. [Screen Shot 2022-07-07 at 20.26.07] I tried adding so…

[imagen] Richie Rich: Is there a way to block specific search terms? Because originally: [imagen] Richie Rich: We’re still getting all manner of useless stuff appearing in our search results. But now our search logs are just absolutely useless. Look at this: [image] Only one valid…

[imagen] Richie Rich: how to prevent non-logged in users from performing a search. There is a hidden site setting named rate_limit_search_anon_global that can be used to limit this.

Thanks @Falco Is it expecting boolean or an integer value?

¿Cómo evito que alguien haga spam de "Trending Search Terms"?

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Falco (Falco) 26 Febrero, 2026 14:33 28

Sí, se cambió el nombre a rate_limit_search_anon_global_per_minute.

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¿Cómo evito que alguien haga spam de "Trending Search Terms"?

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