# Keyword based auto spam ban?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/keyword-based-auto-spam-ban/23764>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [January 8, 2015, 2:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/keyword-based-auto-spam-ban/23764 "2015-01-08T02:53:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2015, 10:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/keyword-based-auto-spam-ban/23764/17 "2015-01-08T22:58:42Z")

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Yeah better to bring the Akismet plugin into the fold as @eviltrout is currently doing (after tagger) rather than building out a lot of redundant text detection stuff.

I can see a use case for blocking arbitrary text with a custom message, this would fix your problem with the inserted default text links, too, @cpradio. Kind of a dangerous feature in some ways but if we say you can’t block text unless it is 6+ chars in length, less so.

In general spammers, as dumb as many of them are, are still a bit smarter than using the same URL over and over. We banned spam URLs for years at Stack Exchange and the repeat hit rate was _tiny_. Once the URLs are burned they tend to switch really fast.

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