People editing posts into spam

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So this is a “How would you handle it?” question.

I have a customer support forum and had a person come on the forum and post a very legitimate question, the question was promptly answered and the post was buried as is natural. Eight days later this person came back and edited his post replacing the contents with a Vietnamese gambling site, but it wasn’t caught for a nearly 2 months. Since this wasn’t the last post, the thread didn’t get bumped and brought to anyone’s attention. Does anyone have ideas on how one might combat or keep on top of this type of behavior?

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That’s a very clever and devoted spammer!

You might reduce the time allowed to edit a post.

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The simplest thing that comes to mind is limiting the number of minuts available to edit your post by modifying the site setting post edit time limit.

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There is a specific plugin that would handle this situation:

I believe it works like this:
Modifications / new posts on the end bump the visibility of the topic in the topic list and once a moderator has read the post it would return to it’s original position and no longer be highlighted for moderators.

Regardless of me perhaps being incorrect about the movement in position at least it’s highlighted with an asterisk for moderators.

Official description:

Discourse Moderator Attention

This plugin was designed for heavily moderated sites, once installed we track which moderator read which post and when.

Any unmoderated topics (topics with at least 1 unmoderated post) will be displayed in the topic list with and asterisk for moderators only.

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Food for Thought:
Do edits run through Akismet? Should they? Especially if the edit happened after several days and the User is TL 1 or less?

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Good question! @eviltrout I think TL0 edits should go through Akismet but this might be a big change?

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I took a peek at the code I wrote and it seems like it wouldn’t be an awful amount of work to add a new state of edited and have it go through Akismet. The time consuming part is testing it to make sure it all works as expected. I’m a bit busy right now but probably someone else on the team could handle that.

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この変更は行われましたか？ウィキ編集スパムは依然として深刻な問題です。

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いいえ、代わりに編集時間の制限を信頼レベルに基づいて設定しました。つまり、TL0 と TL1 のユーザーは、デフォルトで編集可能な期間が非常に短く、24 時間です。TL2 ユーザーは 30 日間編集可能です。

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さて、ウィキ編集スパムに対する対策は現在あるのでしょうか？

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これは深刻な問題ですか？つまり、実際に起きているという証拠はありません。私は噂や理論に基づいて行動しません。

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はい、以前も対処したことがあります。

また、メタのウィキ投稿で同様の事象が起きていると以前報告したこともあります。

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しかし、敬意を表して申し上げますが、あなたは一つのデータポイントに過ぎません。

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私どもの場合、少なくとも4回、別々の機会に発生しました。深刻な問題ではありませんが、発見がやや難しいことは確かです。編集がアクティビティリストの先頭に移動しないため、偶然この問題に気づいただけです。他にも見つけられていない問題があるかもしれません。TL0を24時間に設定するのは、悪い選択肢ではないと思います。しばらくこの問題は見ていないので、もし以前からデフォルトになっていたなら、それで解決していたかもしれません。