Hi @choldgraf . Aren’t Discourse spam filters set a bit too aggressive? My posts are being flagged as spam, it seems because I post too many links to OpenDreamKit’s website. Thanks.

Hmmm - that’s a good question. It’s just using whatever the default post is. Let me look into it and see if we can lessen those filters. My guess is the specific reason here is because your user account is relatively new. I think Discourse treats users who have been around / participated in convers…

ahh, I think that discourse automatically flags posts as spam if a new user posts >= 3 links that point to the same domain within a short time of signing up. I’ve increased that a little bit and also de-flagged your post!

Is there a way to whitelist some domains? I wouldn’t be surprised if a new user came posting dozens of links to GitHub repos. Also, the automated error message (see below) is misleading: suggesting the posts have been flagged manually, and inviting to edit them “to reflect feedback” that is nowhere…

grrr that is frustrating - lemme look into the spam settings more, this discourse thing is still new to us :slight_smile:

Just whitelisted a bunch of sites in the jupyter community - thanks a bunch for noticing this. I can’t figure out how to edit the spam email message though…if anybody figures that out I’d love to know!

was just looking into it: I think the problem is that @yuvipanda mistakenly clicked “agree” on the spam bot’s “is this spam?” comment - it’s quite confusing because it initially seems like saying “agree” means “agree that this is a real post” instead of “agree that this is spam”. I’ve re-posted you…

Whoops, yes that sounds like what I did! Sorry! Will be more careful next time!

Admins can unhide a post by clicking the “…” symbol (next to reply) -> click the wrench icon -> Unhide post. The “Unhide post” only appears for posts that are hidden, so you will have to wait for someone else to post too many links to practice. Overall I think we should go with the defaults for the…

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Thanks! Anything you can do for https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/share-your-binder/32/5?u=defeo?

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