How did all the spam get into the help room?

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I just woke up and found the help room filled with chinese questions and they all look like bots work. Could someone do something about that?

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Answer by SaraCecilia · Sep 07, 2015 at 09:13 AM

Apologies for the spam attack, we're looking into it as suspending users/deleting their content is currently ineffective.

Edit: For now, it will require 2 karmapoints to post in the META and Help Room spaces until we get this sorted out.

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Answer by Dave-Carlile · Sep 06, 2015 at 12:20 PM

I cleared out the mod queue and suspended the accounts, but just as I finished new ones started coming in with new accounts so that's likely a losing battle.

I also don't see any way to suspend a user from anywhere except the mod queue, so I'm not sure how to do that in the help room.

A nice feature would be to auto-reject any messages in the mod queue when a user is suspended. At this point we have to go through every message even if we've suspended the user.

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