# Zombie Threads?

**URL:** <https://community.icinga.com/t/zombie-threads/15234>\
**Category:** Meta Icinga\
**Created:** [October 17, 2025, 10:27am UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/zombie-threads/15234 "2025-10-17T10:27:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![rivad](https://community.icinga.com/user_avatar/community.icinga.com/rivad/32/5852_2.png) [@rivad](https://community.icinga.com/u/rivad)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2025, 10:27am UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/zombie-threads/15234/1 "2025-10-17T10:27:45Z")

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I noticed threads poppig up under latest and if I open them I see no new content.  
Current example:

 ![image](https://community.icinga.com/uploads/default/original/2X/5/5e5ce47701639bd7076b805f066e63b48c20b279.png)  
 ![image](https://community.icinga.com/uploads/default/original/2X/b/b2715e89ddcb01770bb95265a7aec6947581dd23.png)

@theFeu something for the admin to look into?

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**Author:** ![apenning](https://community.icinga.com/user_avatar/community.icinga.com/apenning/32/7669_2.png) [@apenning](https://community.icinga.com/u/apenning)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2025, 11:17am UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/zombie-threads/15234/2 "2025-10-17T11:17:16Z")

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Recently, we are getting more and more spam replies on older threads by newly created users. In the mentioned thread, a newly created user posted a semi-reasonable answer with a link to some shady webpage. While these posts look fine on a first glance, they are SEO spam - LLM output, if I had to guess.

As I have deleted the post and banned the user, the thread still had a recent activity and will stay on top of the topic list.

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**Author:** ![rivad](https://community.icinga.com/user_avatar/community.icinga.com/rivad/32/5852_2.png) [@rivad](https://community.icinga.com/u/rivad)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2025, 11:28am UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/zombie-threads/15234/3 "2025-10-17T11:28:16Z")

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I was suspecting something like this.  
Maybe there’s a feature to rewrite the threads history on delete by admin or a request to Discourse, for it, could be in order.

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**Author:** ![theFeu](https://community.icinga.com/user_avatar/community.icinga.com/thefeu/32/7277_2.png) [@theFeu](https://community.icinga.com/u/theFeu)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2025, 11:36am UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/zombie-threads/15234/4 "2025-10-17T11:36:23Z")

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Alvar explained the reason perfectly.  
I’ll have a look if discourse themselves have anything to solve this 🙂