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Security

Honeypot channels

A trap channel that catches spam bots automatically.

In short

  • A honeypot is a channel no real person should ever type in.
  • Spam bots post everywhere, so anything sent there gets punished instantly.

Set it up#

  1. 1

    Make a channel

    Create a channel and name it something like #dont-type-here.

  2. 2

    Turn it into a trap

    Type ,honeypot add #dont-type-here ban.

Put a note in the channel topic so real members know not to type there.