Combating the recent spate of spam posts

Hi everyone,

We’ve seen a big increase of spam posts to this site, uncaught by Akismet (our spam detection service). As such, we are now experimenting with using LLM-based filtering. I’ve tried it on some of the posts that previously came through, and they were flagged—so I’m hopeful this will work well.

I’ve also enabled review on all incoming messages via email, and topics created by new users. If you want moderation access to help approve these messages, let me know.