# Spam bots tricking Discourse filter by editing **URL:** \ **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")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 16
**Author:** ![j127](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/j127/32/79093_2.png) [@j127](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j127)\ **Post date:** [30 באוגוסט,‏ 2019,‏ 6:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/spam-bots-tricking-discourse-filter-by-editing/101684/16 "2019-08-30T06:10:34Z")
> [@sam](#): > > Another alternative might be to give TL2 and up longer edit time limits. That might be useful. For the moment, I’ve changed the trust levels required to add links and edit posts and made it a little harder to reach TL1. The last spam post I saw wasn’t the usual obvious spammer — it was someone fully blending into the site, posting a thoughtful question like a regular user. I’ll try to find the old spam by querying all edits done by TL0 users. > [@sam](#): > > 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. If one post were marked unread, wouldn’t it just add the blue dot next to the post and auto-scroll to it when a user visits that topic? > [@codinghorror](#): > > Why? Sometimes people feel like they might have said something that they didn’t want to say, and they want to remove it. We’re living in a world where everything a person ever says can follow them around for the rest of their life, and it can lead to problems. People aren’t the same people for their whole lives, and they might not want their old self (or just an angry moment) to remain online forever. I tend to not speak as freely online in places where editing is limited. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/spam-bots-tricking-discourse-filter-by-editing/101684)._