@Cookie said in Reducing SPAM Posts, But Minimizing False Positives:

Disabled "About me" and "Signature" profile elements as the "Spam Be Gone" plugin does not check these

This, I feel, will help us a lot. We have a lot of bots using this vector and really see essentially no legitimate usage of it.

@Nicolas It is! Spam be gone plugin is bundled with all installed and active by default. However, I do believe the defaults are all off, so perhaps @akhoury can amend...

Give dislike spammer!

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Hello, I would like to suggest a feature to avoid spam bots that is like the yahoo groups feature, a text box that the new user would ask with his own words for admins when registering, admin gets notified maybe via email as well, and then when the registration is authorized, the user gets notified via email.

Already done :ninja:

https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/commit/a7d028e29b976247afdf700570750c2f4642e297

0 julianlam committed to NodeBB/NodeBB bundling spam-be-gone with all nodebb install, ping @akhoury, closes #2332

@a_5mith some kind of versioning warning might suffice in the future.

I feel bad that my forum isn't popular enough to be targeted by spam bots 😞