# Potential spammer accounts being created

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/potential-spammer-accounts-being-created/305553>\
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**Created:** [April 26, 2024, 11:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/potential-spammer-accounts-being-created/305553 "2024-04-26T11:03:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2024, 3:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/potential-spammer-accounts-being-created/305553/10 "2024-04-26T15:48:02Z")

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> [@awesomerobot](#):
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> (If someone posts, disappears for a month+, and then returns to edit a link in?)

For these, we do have some protection with the edit window limits (more stringent for lower trust levels, but most sites keep the default 30 days for TL2+), but I think human spammers can be wise to a lot of the tools over time and more so as Discourse becomes more popular.

We had one here just the other day that the auto-tools didn’t catch who came back and edited a hyperlink into a full stop in their innocuous looking post. They can be real sneaky.

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