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Originally Posted by ARR8
Surely the spammers aren't so sophisticated as to post an innocuous comment but then transform it into spam once approved?
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This is exactly what happens. It happens on another forum I admin. We lock newbies into no edits until a certain time/post count is reached. Once they reach that, they go back to their original posts and edit in all sorts of links. So imagine what they could do if they have immediate edit privileges. Most of them are now using AI generated posts so it is easy to pick them as spammers in waiting.
There are cases where the newbie is genuine and known to us and we can override the restrictions. Don't know about this forum though.