One thing I’ve seen a lot of recently, is Tag Spam abuse, in particular for stuff that “security researchers” try to post and of course, (inevitably) spammers. It also feels like a potential AutoMod bypass, as I’ve previously seen Tags created that would normally be blocked by the filters.

While it is possible to manually go through and sweep them up to get rid of them, it’s quite a chore if there’s loads of them to get rid of. It would be helpful if the spam filter could be extended to help deal with these issues, with the usual exemptions for Tags created by trusted users i.e. Super User or higher.

For example, anything with special characters in beyond dashes or underscores probably don’t deserve to be a Tag and it’s unlikely to benefit anyone other than a spammer or hacking attempt. It would be great if those could just be blocked outright with the option to notify moderators to either approve the tag and link it to the relevant posts automatically, or deny it and zap it completely.

Ideally, this would also allow for bulk clean-up of existing tags that are rule violating, so that anything which fits the pattern of abuse can be reviewed and bulk-deleted in one go, without having to go through thousands of clicks.