Card #1761 · Discourse Meta
Ineffective built-in spam protection against sophisticated bot attacks
Merchants are struggling with persistent spam user attacks that bypass standard filters and CAPTCHAs. They are forced to rely on manual deletion, complex custom queries, or cumbersome suppression workflows to manage bot accounts. There is a strong desire for a universal spam marker and more intuitive tools to flag and block sophisticated bots.
Pain score
0.51/ 1.00 · weighted product of four components
Reach0.40distinct authors (log-normalized)
Recency1.00freshness decay, half-life months
Engagement0.57upvotes + comments, normalized
Monetization0.50willingness-to-pay cues in evidence
§ Evidence — 4 verified quotes
Maybe spam attacks are so pervasive that what’s happening to us is just par for the course.
With the rise of AI, bots and other programs can double-opt-in and bypass CAPTCHAs like never before.
it stopped after I switched to manually approving posts for TL0 users.
The height of my frustration is not even that technology and systems like Hubspot are struggling to align, it’s the ease in which I can report spam and or flag contacts in my data sets.
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