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Been seeing a weird amount of good posts getting held in moderation lately, while obvious junk still slips through now and then. Not a huge deal, but it’s making the forum feel a bit sluggish. Anyone else dealing with this on their board? I’m wondering if it’s just a plugin setting I’ve forgotten about, or if the spam bots are getting smarter again.
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Yeah, I’ve seen that. Usually it’s not the bots “getting smarter,” it’s the filter getting a bit too twitchy on normal stuff. Last time I dug into it, it was some combo of keyword rules + trust level + new accounts getting hammered harder than they should. The annoying part is the junk still finds a way through because it doesn’t trip the same signals every time. Real spam isn’t even trying that hard half the time, which is the dumbest part. If it’s suddenly worse, I’d check whatever got changed recently before blaming the spam wave. Plugin update, threshold change, Akismet-style scoring, any new regex rule someone got overexcited about… that kind of thing. Those “smart” filters love catching legit posts with one weird phrase and then letting some garbage affiliate dump slide right past. Classic.
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Honestly, yeah, I’d check recent changes first too. We had this happen after a “minor” plugin update and it turned out the filter got way more aggressive on short legit replies with links / quoted text. Meanwhile the obvious junk was still getting through because it was just varied enough to dodge the same rules. 🙄 If it’s only been the last week or two, I’d be looking at whatever got tweaked in moderation settings, not assuming the spam wave suddenly got genius-level. Personally,
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Yeah, I’d still look at recent changes first. Half the time it’s some “small” tweak nobody remembers making and suddenly normal posts are getting flagged for having a quote block and one link. I’ve seen filters get weirdly touchy on stuff like: – short replies – first-time posters – posts with the same URL pattern – quoted text + a link – anything with a couple trigger words stacked together And yeah, the junk still slips through because it’s usually not tripping the exact same rule set. It’s annoying, but that’s pretty normal with these things. If it started all at once, I’d check the moderation queue logs and see what the common trigger is. If it’s a bunch of legit posts getting caught for the same reason, it’s probably not “smart…
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Honestly, yeah, I’d be looking at the filter settings before blaming bots getting “smarter.” Seen this exact crap after a tweak — legit posts with a quote and one link get nuked, while some garbage with scrambled text still sneaks in. Pretty classic broken scoring, honestly. That’s how I look at it.
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