What's with all the new spam showing up? Are there benefits to spamming sites such as SQLTeam other than annoying people?
It's likely someone found a way to blast posts out to Discourse forums and they're hitting every one they can identify. Some of them, somewhere will get hits, so it'll be worth it... unfortunately.
I've been clearing it up as quickly as I can, but if you see any spam make sure to report it, it should hide it immediately and then a moderator can take further action.
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The benefits of running popular forum software are lots of hosting companies and support and plugins. The downside is the bot-writers have LOTS of good targets. Rob has been policing these forums for a LONG, LONG time and doing a fantastic job.
They often hit hard for a while and then then figure out it won't work or the Discourse people put in some code to block them and it gradually goes away. AI may mess up this equation though. It will be interesting.
Keep reporting spam. I will go double-check the settings and see if we can do anything to throttle down new users.
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Maybe you can block any post containing "Temu" or "coupon code".
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@robert_volk When I report those, they disappear for me. Are they also disappearing for everyone else, or does an admin have to go take some action later?
EDIT: Oops... You already answered this a month ago. Sorry for the ping.
No worries, I think they disappear for everyone, and they show up in the moderation queue for further action.
Please keep reporting them as they come up, thanks.
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I just nuked a few more. Discourse usually has pretty good spam catching stuff. We will see if it continues.
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"Inside the terrifying mind of AI"
Does it block the poster once a thread is flag as SPAM ? I just flag one by nadukhan32 but after few minutes, more spam still coming in under that poster
There's a pattern, best response is to flag them all as they pop up. Flagging as spam should make them invisible to everyone except moderators. We'll remediate as soon as we can.
I'd rather not get into specifics in case the spammer is reading this thread.
Good to know. As mentioned earlier, keep flagging them as they come up and we'll handle it.
Can you automatically block any post with "temu" in the title? That seems like it would solve most of the problem.
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I agree with Fred. I can see issues with something like that, however.
I am trying to understand what triggers the auto-hide capability when it is flagged as SPAM. Sometimes, it says the post was de-listed and it disappears. Other times, it flags as SPAM and sticks around. It looks like the auto-hide feature is associated with another data point that allows it to be hidden once flagged.
All this SPAM is starting to make me think the internet is not a wonderful as we were promised by Mr. Gore.
I think I have an alternative solution. Let's get our favorite angry data guru Joe C. to school them on proper posting techniques. That will take care of it!
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As far as I've noticed: 2 people need to flag a post as spam before it will disappear.
Thank you! That is the correlation I was looking for.
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I've been doing what I can, but I keep getting this error.
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