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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这个变化发生了吗？维基编辑垃圾信息仍然非常普遍。

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不，我们改为基于信任等级的编辑时限。因此，TL0 和 TL1 级别的用户默认拥有的可编辑窗口要小得多——为 24 小时。TL2 用户则拥有 30 天。

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好的，那么现在对维基编辑垃圾信息有什么缓解措施吗？

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这是个严重的问题吗？我的意思是，我们没有证据表明它真的发生了。我不会仅凭道听途说或理论就采取行动。

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是的，我之前处理过类似的问题。

这也是我之前在 Meta 上报告过的、在维基帖子中发生的情况。

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但恕我直言，您只是一个数据点。

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我们至少遇到过 4 次这种情况。严重吗？不。算不算有点难发现？是的。我们只是偶然才发现这个问题，因为编辑不会自动置顶到活动列表顶部。可能还有其他我们尚未发现的类似情况。我想将 TL0 设置为 24 小时或许是个不错的选择。我已经很久没再遇到这个问题了，所以如果之前默认采用这个设置，也许早就解决我们的问题了。