Forum Spam Incident

Looks like you have your work cut out for you this morning. Sorry to see.

Just about wore out a couple of trackball buttons before the cancelbot woke up … :sweat_smile:

AFAICT, real people handle user signups and bots slam bulk text into the messages, so some organization has a powerful motivation to post those phone numbers in public places. I find it difficult to believe anybody would be suckered into calling the number in those word walls, but apparently it pays off enough to make a career out of it.

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We’re trying!

It’s hard to not be heavy handed with a filter, and we’re trying not to have to manually approve every new user, because we want people to be able to access the forum without a human gatekeeper.

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First rule of fight club… - I forgot.

I’ve flagged 8+ this morning.

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Please keep flagging - after a certain threshold of spam flags, a post is automatically hidden and new users are silenced.

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I did my best to flag as many as I could this morning but hit the limit at 23 in a 24hr period.

fixed, you should have a higher limit now.

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Wow, glad I was busy today!

If you weren’t, you would have been! :grin:

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I believe I seen a count of around 400 new topics at one point

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