Just had a user get blocked (“silenced”) by system while trying to make their first post, for reason = typing too fast. The user mentioned he was copying something written in another document so that makes sense. But a bit confusing trying to resolve this as an admin: I went in and manually un-silenced the user and told him to try posting again. But when he did, same thing happened. Maybe it would make sense to turn off the auto-block measures in the case an admin has manually overruled it? In this post from 2016 @codinghorror mentions that “blocked posts by new users always come into the approval queue” — but we didn’t get an admin notification here, it seems this user went straight to “silenced” with no way to approve or not. Only saw it happened at all b/c the user emailed us. If it were the case that this was flagged w/ option to approve, that would be :+1: too!

I believe there is a site setting for this, did you look there? Check under notify mods when user silenced. That’s all you need.

Is this new user pasting in the content of their first post? That’s highly consistent with spam behavior.

Yes they said they have a large topic prepared and saved elsewhere…I can see how it makes sense to flag as suspicious, just would like to have a way to manually verify in that case.

Ah thanks, didn’t see that, just turned it on (maybe that setting should be enabled by default…)

Gotcha. Then we’ll consider ourselves lucky; I believe this is the first possible-spammer-auto-silence we’ve seen, in several months of active forum! Possibly b/c Wordpress SSO is an extra barrier, or we’re just not a big enough target yet :slight_smile:

New user auto-silenced with no option to approve?

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) January 10, 2018, 11:12pm 6

We usually don’t want that, because the spammers are very persistent.

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New user auto-silenced with no option to approve?

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