# 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:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [30 באוגוסט,‏ 2019,‏ 4:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/spam-bots-tricking-discourse-filter-by-editing/101684/14 "2019-08-30T04:23:19Z")

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> [@j127](#):
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> Ideally, I like unlimited editing windows, and every edit bumps the topic.

This is tricky, cause post #12 could be edited in a 40 post topic, if we bump the topic for that it would be incredibly surprising to see it. You would have to scroll through every post.

I think one alternative here is moderation tools that list all edits that happened beyond a certain threshold. But this would introduce a lot of extra overhead here.

Another alternative might be to give TL2 and up longer edit time limits.

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