Spam Posts

[Aditya_Shevle]

Can someone please help me with SPAM POSTS? We are getting so many spams posts on a daily basis. See the attached screenshot.

Thank you in advance!

[bloomexperiment (Tracey)]

Here are some options to help deal with spam:

Manually approve all new posts or new users

You can make it so that posts have to be approved before they are public (approve post count), or so that users have to be approved (must approve users)

/admin/site_settings/category/all_results?filter=Approve

Akismet

Do you have the Akismet plugin installed? Setting this up can help with spam.

Discourse Akismet (Anti-Spam)

Summary Discourse Akismet allows you to fight spam with Akismet, an algorithm used by millions of sites to combat spam automatically. Repository Link https://github.com/discourse/discourse-akismet Install Guide How to install plugins in Discourse Features What does it do? Akismet helps keep your site free of spam by automatically scanning all posts from new users. Scanned posts that Akismet flags as spam are immediately removed f…

Watched Words

You could also make so that posts with certain words will be automatically blocked, flagged or require approval, in Watched Words

/admin/customize/watched_words

[Arkshine]

Hi,

Here are some resources that might help:

Tips for Preventing Spam

On most forums spam is rare. However, if you’re having problems with spam on your site, Discourse comes with numerous tools to help you automatically prevent spam. The following guide offers some recommendations on how you can help prevent spam, while still maintaining a positive and welcoming environment for your community. Akismet Anti Spam Plugin If you’re having trouble with spam on your site, the Discourse Akismet (Anti-Spam) plugin is a great place to start. This plugin helps keep your…

Setting up spam detection in your community

Overview In this topic we are going to use Discourse AI Post Classifier to detect spam. Note that the instructions here can be customized for your preference. See an example setup here… [CleanShot 2024-03-21 at 15.19.11@2x] Why should I use this? If you’ve tried Akismet and other anti-spam tools and were not happy with its results for detecting spam in your community Pre-requisites In order for this to work you will need the following enabled Discourse AI Discourse-Automation LLM (Large …