My forum was attacked and spammed with posts that we don’t want visible. How can the forum be disabled except for staff to clean it up?

I’d simply change all of the category permissions to staff only. With a nice explainer somewhere (of course). You might like to do a data explorer query to record your existing permissions first, and if your forum is large/complex maybe do it all from the Rails console as a bulk action. That would…

How to turn off forum except for staff

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) April 8, 2024, 9:18am 3

You can set the forum to be read only except for staff. Read Only Modes in Discourse

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