I'm currently being flooded with spam, what can I do?

[RGJ (Richard - Communiteq)]

They’re not really expensive.

And I’ve shared two tips in that topic that don’t need an LLM.

Tips for Preventing Spam

One very useful regular expression is \d{3}-\d{4}|[\w+\-.]+@[a-z\d\-]+(\.[a-z\d\-]+)*\.[a-z]+ which blocks email addresses and phone numbers. Don’t forget to enable settings - posting - “watched words regular expressions”.

Tips for Preventing Spam

We’ve seen a number of clients hit by large spam attacks lately, and what they all had in common is that they opened up one or more categories to everyone - create, bypassing all trust level restrictions. For seasoned Discourse admins it’s obvious that this is a bad idea, but for less experienced people it’s not. So it might be a good idea to state the (for us) obvious and add this to the start post of the topic.