# 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:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [30 באוגוסט,‏ 2019,‏ 4:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/spam-bots-tricking-discourse-filter-by-editing/101684/12 "2019-08-30T04:13:52Z")

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> [@j127](#):
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> spammers have been posting legitimate looking posts and then going back a few weeks later to insert links to things like [free netflix] and [tech news].

The first step is to tighten up your allowed editing interval in `post edit time limit` from the default to something like one day. Unless your users regularly need to edit posts from weeks ago, you can close that in your site settings in about 15 seconds.

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