Hello, I’m currently being flooded with these posts. I’ve closed registration because I couldn’t find any other setting to stop it.
Do you have any tips for me?
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We’ve got a guide that explains some options here:
AI spam detection would definitely catch posts like that, but you may also have luck with the watched words feature if there are some consistent phrases in the spam posts.
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Hmm, but then I need an LLM provider, and they’re all expensive.
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They’re not really expensive.
And I’ve shared two tips in that topic that don’t need an LLM.
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Hi, yes, this can be helpful:
Other Discourse forums have been the targets of this attack (mine included).
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Or you can look at free models on OpenRouter, like Gemini.
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You don’t need AI to solve this btw. Just initially a bit of work to review all first posts then ban the bad users and their IPs.
My forum had a very similar attack very recently and after doing that the situation was under control within half a day.
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this is the way if you have the bandwidth to do so
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