How to prevent spam posts?

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How to prevent spam posts? Different users and different spam posts.

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

Install discourse-ai and enable the anti spam module per:

Discourse AI - Spam detection

This guide explains how to configure and use Discourse AI’s spam detection feature, including the setup process, scanning criteria, classification logic, customizations, and contrasts with AI triage. Required user level: Administrator This is now default turned on for Starter and Standard customers Discourse AI provides an efficient spam detection feature that identifies and flags spam posts with minimal configuration. While designed for simpli…

If cost is an issue I recommend you use the free tier of Gemini 2.5 flash which will do a great job with spam handling and prevention.

[ondrej]

In addition to Sam’s post, other things you can do to combat spam are listed in this guide below

Tips for Preventing Spam

This documentation provides a comprehensive guide on preventing spam in Discourse forums, and includes information about various settings and tools designed to help maintain a spam-free community environment. Required user level: Administrator On most forums spam is rare. However, if you’re having problems with spam on your site, Discourse comes with numerous tools to help you automatically prevent spam. The following guide offers some recommendations on how…

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Also, Discourse is designed so your community can help combat spam. They can flag spam for your moderators to quickly review and deal with.

Let us know how it goes in your community! Great to see you back here in ours!