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Community Spam

AJ Sebastian
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Hi Everyone,

In the coming weeks we're going to be testing some new ways to combat spam on these pages. We're going to be adding some automated systems to hopefully catch more of the spam. This could have some unintended consequences, but the good should outweigh the bad.

One way we're hoping to combat spam is by making new users have a window where they can't post without being approved. We'll try and stay on top of the moderation queue, but be aware that your post might not be displayed immediately for new accounts.

Please use this discussion to let us know of any new issues which arise because of the changes.

Thanks,

AJ

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  • Hi AJ and Skyler,

    it´s happening again!!!! The spam bots are beginning to outsmart your current spam protection fortress.

    While the obvious "spam" content doesn´t make it through, we can see more and more community entries, that look like real posts, but often just contain copy/paste content with custom links to untrustworthy websites.

    Is it possible for your to improve the spam engine for this use case? I guess the current content is hard to filter, but maybe some kind of honeypot concept could work?

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  • Hi AJ and Skyler,

    it´s happening again!!!! The spam bots are beginning to outsmart your current spam protection fortress.

    While the obvious "spam" content doesn´t make it through, we can see more and more community entries, that look like real posts, but often just contain copy/paste content with custom links to untrustworthy websites.

    Is it possible for your to improve the spam engine for this use case? I guess the current content is hard to filter, but maybe some kind of honeypot concept could work?

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