Oh no, the spammers are back! 
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The list of posts waiting approval is endless.
I have been deleting posts and blocking each user. It does not seem to help. I dont know what to do next.
I think @abhishek must have turned back on the first user approvals because no more are getting through now.
Update
I seem to have got to the end of the approvals list.
Maybe the problem has stopped.
There needs to be some sort of āflood controlā to prevent one nuisance user from making hundreds of posts.
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Hereās an idea that should take the load off you to an extent.
Please only allow legit posts from the queue. Leave the spammer as it is. Iāll handle the spam cleaning.
This reduces your work and ensures that genuine members are not stuck in the queue waiting forever.
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And indeed spammers are back. I can see more than 50 accounts signed up almost at the same time. Going to be a time taking task to scrub them off.
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Ok, we can try that for a while, see how well it works
I will only deal with spam if it makes it through to a topic
@callpaul.eu you need to note this.
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I used āDelete and block userā
but you can still see the accounts?
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No. They are gone from the community forum. But they are still on itsfoss.com and I have to weed them out.
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I see no ships ā¦
Must have started and stopped over night here
You missed out on all the fun ( & work)
If you see one of these spams waiting for approval, use " delete and block user"
If you see ones identified as spam by our robot, just leave them thereā¦
Abhishek has a way to delete them easily.
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Its over a week since anything was in the flagged area, i do check daily even when the system does not put a coloured marker against the flag. Last one was the new linux version.
But noted the steps
Have a look at Admin ā Security ā logs and Screening
Do you look at Review or your icon in the top right corner?
Right at the moment there is one spam topic queued and it appears under both.
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Isnāt it an idea to automatically delete accounts which happen to register by the bucketloads in a couple of seconds?
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You might find [this Stack Exchange discussion]( Can a machine be taught to flag spam automatically? - Meta Stack Exchange ) interesting.
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[quote=āNeville Jackson, post:11, topic:14357, username:nevjā]
Have a look at Admin ā Security ā logs and Screening
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ok seen them now, I had been checking just flagged before
[quote=āNeville Jackson, post:11, topic:14357, username:nevjā]
Do you look at Review or your icon in the top right corner?
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there is nothing in that to indecate issues. That I can see.
will start to look more
thanks
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Did flag 2 messages this morning, then when the 3rd came with telephone numbers blocked the sender as you suggested. Now I know where that is.
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There were 2 more about 8.00 pm our time, but they only got as far as the approval queue..
I dont understand how some get through to the forum , and others get held in the approval queue?
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I thought that Discourse had a discrete area for mods to discuss matters out of view of the hoi polloi,ā¦
Well, that was my experience when I were a mod (in another forum).
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[quote=āGrahamLees, post:17, topic:14357ā]
discrete area for mods to discuss matters
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Yes we do but its important that we are open to ideas and input from others. Plus you know and spot things we may not see. You are the future of the site
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This is also my question of questions, even if Iām not a mod.
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Donāt think there is a catch all to stop passage without perhaps blocking real questions. Some things arrive and itās hard to tell if its real or not. A few months back we had one slip through on capacitors in a electric circuit, it was only after several replies we could identify it was unsuitable. This morning one came in with a telephone this number, so easy to spot. Last week launch of a new linux version and we discussed at great length to pass or stopā¦ā¦
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