Spam is on the increase

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I’m seeing more and more spam on the site.

  • Is there any way we can handle this better?
  • Is there any way to bulk flag it?
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On one occasion, discourse said I couldn’t flag any more - wait 12h before flagging spam. If no automated mechanism can be implemented, at least raise the limit on the available spam arrival intensity countermeasure, flagging.

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I’ve been using Gemini as a proactive content moderator for my Discord communities (Something I specialize in)

Is there possibly any developer APIs for Discourse including Webhooks? It’d be great to see Google Gemini protecting its own forum.

If a staff member or moderator is viewing this, possibly try something like this?

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Now that I’ve actually looked into the issue - It’s bad. Found this MASSIVE list of spam bots, and they’ve all got their birthday as January First.

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Maybe start looking for patterns like these? I’m really saddened that about half of the accounts on here are bots.

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I don’t know how - but these spam “WhatsApp” posts are being re-listed???
I am clueless on how/why these are being relisted, even though they are clearly spam.

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The worst thing is - is that when these get de-listed, they aren’t even de-listed?? They still show up under Latest as the spam-bots reply to their own post with the same junk. If something is de-listed, it should de-list the whole thread (as long as the main post is de-listed).

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Google, surely it wouldn’t be that hard to implement a fix for this. Your own models can solve the issue for you. It even found two that I’ve managed to flag and get de-listed with a really simple prompt

For those that do have Discourse themselves, it’s really not that hard. Discourse gives you a really easy way to implement this - their public API shows a way to get posts and remove them really easily.

Please, Google. Help us fix this problem once and for all.