My experience as moderator of multiple discourse forums is that there’s not all that much to moderate, when you just have a small user base. There’s some suspicious bot account signups to watch out for. Usually a gmail email with a generic name and number e.g. mary538@gmail.com and a username often different e.g. @sandra135. Then an IP lookup that leads to India… and you can probably kick the user out of the forum. Akismet will mostly make you aware of these. Sporadically you get bots generating posts, and these can be quite ‘good’ i.e. they use the threads context to formulate sentences. You might confuse them for non-native English speakers. If you leave their posts they will edit them later, and add in a link to a suspicious site.
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