The forum is inadvertently better at preventing ‘spam reporting’ than it is at preventing spam:
Spam:
Blocked during reporting:
I’m aware the forum is powered by Discourse, there may be a setting that can be tweaked:
https://meta.discourse.org/t/tips-for-preventing-spam/264020
Update: After waiting 3 hours and resuming reporting, after marking only a few I encountered:
42 minutes is oddly specific
Update 2: Now I’m at an 18 hour restriction:
Just signed in for the week and I can agree, there was a lot of spam on the forums today. Spammers were seemingly too active in the past days for some reason. While the number of posts that slipped was higher than usual, even the number of posts that actually got blocked were so many that I had to spend about 30 mins today just reviewing those.
With that being said, the plugins and settings recommend by Discourse are already enabled and changing the sensitivity levels to further block spammers might cause more damage to regular users. I see a couple of genuine users stuck in the spam queue on a daily basis, so not sure if that’s a good idea.
As for you being blocked to report, the default limit is 20 posts a day. It doesn’t seem that the limit can be raised per user, so it will have to be global. I personally don’t have an issue with raising the limit to report spam, as there’s not a lot of users who would report something anyways.
I’ll bring this to the team’s attention. Thank you for reporting.
