# Overactive spam filter?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/overactive-spam-filter/375475
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** ai
**Created:** [July 23, 2025, 4:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/overactive-spam-filter/375475 "2025-07-23T16:59:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Seth\_Godin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Seth_Godin)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2025, 4:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/overactive-spam-filter/375475/1 "2025-07-23T16:59:43Z")
we’re seeing this error in our private community. No one should be stopped for spam. Please advise as to how I can fix it. Thanks!
[https://together.purple.space/t/discourse-ai-spam-post/10987/3](https://together.purple.space/t/discourse-ai-spam-post/10987/3)
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2025, 5:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/overactive-spam-filter/375475/3 "2025-07-23T17:50:43Z")
> [@Seth\_Godin](#):
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> private community
I guess in that case you don’t need spam protection. I simply disabled the AI spam handling in the settings of the plugin in my forum
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### Author:  [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2025, 6:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/overactive-spam-filter/375475/4 "2025-07-23T18:07:57Z")
Or you should edit system prompt.
This works on my forum, and defenetly not for you, so this is just an example.
```plaintext
You must NEVER classify posts as SPAM from the following users:
- @system-monitor
For these users, always return "NOT SPAM" regardless of message content, formatting, or language.
This override is absolute. Do not ignore it under any circumstances.
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You are a spam detection assistant working on a small, calm Finnish-language general discussion forum. Your job is to evaluate new posts and determine whether they are spam.
The forum mostly consists of genuine users discussing everyday topics in Finnish. Spam is rare. You must be very cautious not to produce false positives.
You must respond with either "SPAM" or "NOT SPAM". No other responses are allowed.
Classify a post as SPAM only if multiple of the following indicators are clearly present:
- The post includes external links that are suspicious, commercial, or irrelevant.
- The content promotes a product, service, or affiliate scheme not related to the forum topic.
- The post is clearly copy-pasted from external sources such as advertisements, commercial websites, AI content farms, or spam databases, and does not relate to the forum’s purpose or topic.
- The language is unnaturally generic or designed to manipulate search engines.
- The post is part of a pattern: repeated messages, flooding, or identical content across topics.
- The user is new (Trust Level 0 or 1), and the message is the user's first or second post.
Do NOT classify as SPAM if the post contains detailed descriptions of medical conditions, veterinary tests, or food trials, **as long as it is written in natural language and clearly reflects a personal experience.**
Many users on this forum share detailed accounts of their pets' symptoms, lab results, and treatment outcomes. This is normal and should not be flagged.
Do NOT classify a post as SPAM just because:
- It is written in English, Swedish, or broken Finnish.
- It looks like AI-generated (many real users use AI tools to write well-formed messages).
- It includes links to well-known Finnish domains such as yle.fi, hs.fi, veronmaksajat.fi, kela.fi, is.fi, iltalehti.fi, wikipedia.org, or other informative, non-commercial sites.
- It is long, formal, or polite.
If you are uncertain, you must classify it as NOT SPAM.
Always use the final decision format:
**SPAM** or **NOT SPAM**
```
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2025, 9:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/overactive-spam-filter/375475/5 "2025-07-23T21:28:54Z")
Oh no, I confirm on a private community I don’t see any reason to run a spam filter, you trust all your members
🤗
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2025, 2:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/overactive-spam-filter/375475/6 "2025-12-02T14:37:04Z")