Perhaps new members should be moderated for a day or two?

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This change will stop our current spamming idiot from posting.

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Yeah. Being SPAM bombed. Is no official PG member up in other time zones?

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There are team members online, across many time zones luckily :innocent:

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Do you guys have auto spam detector/filter? Or are you just banning them?

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I’ve been flagging it as spam. And they get auto delisted.

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Same here I was just wandering what system they have and if I have wasted a few hours for nothing. :melting_face:

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If you see any spam just report and moderators will get it sorted as soon as possible.

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Yeah we have similar thoughts. Thanks for thinking along tho.

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I too agree with this motion.

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I have been doing that too, but there should be a safety mechanism for those spammers

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There is a setting in Discourse which makes approval of a moderator a requirement for the first few comments of a new user. The user gets a notification about this when posting.

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Yes, this is now how the forum is configured.

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I see the same type of posts with exactly the same content across many forums. Now its a spam wave on this forum, but overall its happening for a few weeks across many.

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Yeah we had quite some waves. Many of them were actually automatically stopped but today we saw quite some breaking through. We have bolstered up and working out further improvements.

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