Questions about moving an existing forum to Discourse

[danekhollas (Daniel Hollas)]

Regarding the spam, you might find some interesting ideas in a relatively recent discussion here:

Human-driven copy-paste spam

Hi all! I run the forum at https://community.letsencrypt.org/, and have found Discourse to be a huge win over the years. Our forum is so critical to our success. However, we’ve noticed a new pattern of spam. People will sign up and post comments that seem really legit, then hours later they will edit those comments to add links to sites they are trying to report. When we dig into these, it turns out the “legit” comments were copy-pasted from other threads, or from our GitHub issues page. If you…