Spam accounts / Posts recently?

Its not been intolerable yet but is there any ways to tackle this so it it wont become one ?

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Maybe if we can have a topic for mandatory presentation of new users. Only after that presentation, after validation, then users could post on different topics.

Or having a quarantine period, of one or two days, to allow posting only after that period.

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No idea how to solve it, but I have seen similar problems also. Ping @René and @MiikkaSolmela

The irony is they don’t seem to realise how potentially dangerous for them (or the site they plan to spuik) it is to spam a forum full of people who specialise in automation :face_with_hand_over_mouth:

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Configuring spam protection - Comprehensive Discourse Forum Setup and Management | StudyRaid had few configuration hints that might be helpful.

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