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Rich Stokes's picture

I just got:

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when I tried to post something.

How do we stop that from happening?

It happens when the site detects certain "spammy" identifers

Matt's picture

Because it's automated and works on a series of metrics, it sometimes produces false positives (as in this case).

Usually I'm pretty quick to publish 'em, and send a "not spam" classification to the central server it works from.

-Matt

Realms Publishing

Hey, it happened to me too!

Shevaun's picture

Hey, it happened to me too! What are the criteria for being spam? Maybe I could avoid tripping them in the future. I suppose that post about the h0t pr0n was probably a bad idea... :D

Shevy

Ham!

Gregor Hutton's picture

Your comment has now been marked as Ham! not Spam!

Don't know why it does this, but the Akismet spam blocker is a godsend. No longer do I have to follow the loathsome slime trail of user XzZZYyyDDYy and his Russian pronmails throughout the forums and blogs.

I love that the opposite of

Andrew Kenrick's picture

I love that the opposite of spam is ham :-)

It may be a great blocker,

Shevaun's picture

It may be a great blocker, but it did it again! Just because my post was pretty long... Maybe it doesn't like Cold City?

Ham me please.

Or, I dunno, you're the mods, if you think my post is cack then let me know and I'll try it again.

Shevy

Is that it published now?

Gregor Hutton's picture

It seemed to be published, but the "[] Published" box wasn't ticked (in Publishing Options) which is why no one could see it.