# Spam over the past few days **URL:** \ **Category:** Meta Elastic\ **Created:** [September 28, 2015, 8:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/spam-over-the-past-few-days/31214 "2015-09-28T08:17:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 8:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/spam-over-the-past-few-days/31214/1 "2015-09-28T08:17:07Z")
Apologies about all of this folks, we're working on a mitigation strategy 😄 If you see something that looks like spam we ask that you flag it for us to action. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Saffron](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sam_saffron/32/44937_2.png) [@Sam\_Saffron](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sam_Saffron)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 8:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/spam-over-the-past-few-days/31214/2 "2015-09-28T08:34:08Z")
Actually for bamwar there is a trick we can apply: I just set: `auto block first post regex` to `\p{Hangul}{3}` This means that we will automatically block any first posts that have korean in them (you can still approve if needed) This only applies to the first post ever by a user. Regarding Akismet @eviltrout will have a look but I think it will learn. ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 8:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/spam-over-the-past-few-days/31214/3 "2015-09-28T08:34:53Z")
Marvelous, thanks mate! ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 8:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/spam-over-the-past-few-days/31214/4 "2015-09-28T08:44:00Z")
@colings86 point me to [this thread](https://meta.discourse.org/t/our-forum-is-getting-bamwar-spam/31566/) on meta.discourse.org. I'd like to add a +1 to [https://meta.discourse.org/t/our-forum-is-getting-bamwar-spam/31566/4](https://meta.discourse.org/t/our-forum-is-getting-bamwar-spam/31566/4) FWIW (but I don't wanna create another account, sorry). ---
**Author:** ![colings86](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/colings86/32/44960_2.png) [@colings86](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/colings86)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 9:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/spam-over-the-past-few-days/31214/5 "2015-09-28T09:06:21Z")
If any users have problems posting on the forum following these spam attacks please accept our apologises and email Devrel (at) elastic (dot) co using your discourse email address, explaining the problem and we will resolve it and get you back posting again. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Saffron](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sam_saffron/32/44937_2.png) [@Sam\_Saffron](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sam_Saffron)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 1:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/spam-over-the-past-few-days/31214/7 "2015-09-29T01:33:42Z")
Stuff has calmed down a fair bit it appears, no new spams snuck through 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 1:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/spam-over-the-past-few-days/31214/8 "2017-07-06T13:47:11Z")