# Spam bots tricking Discourse filter by editing

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/spam-bots-tricking-discourse-filter-by-editing/101684>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [9 בנובמבר,‏ 2018,‏ 6:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/spam-bots-tricking-discourse-filter-by-editing/101684 "2018-11-09T18:12:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![zsero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zsero/32/64016_2.png) [@zsero](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zsero)\
**Post date:** [9 בנובמבר,‏ 2018,‏ 6:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/spam-bots-tricking-discourse-filter-by-editing/101684/1 "2018-11-09T18:12:00Z")

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Some new spam bots appeared, which are intelligent enough to optimise for Discourse’s built-in spam filters. They first make a comment without any links, and later on they’ll edit and add the link. Discourse doesn’t catch them this way. For example the following revision:

 ![Developer%20API%20docs%20-%20MapHub%20community%20forum%202018-11-09%2019-11-22](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/4/e/4e2fdd2d7552dd5c108890a68126883d656a73c5.png)

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