# Categorizing posts using AI characters: A post received 11 replies in a short period
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/ai-11/406093
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** ai
**Created:** [June 25, 2026, 2:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ai-11/406093 "2026-06-25T02:45:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@singi2016cn](https://meta.discourse.org/u/singi2016cn)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2026, 2:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ai-11/406093/1 "2026-06-25T02:45:06Z")
Has anyone else encountered this issue?
How should I troubleshoot this situation?
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### Author:  [@nat](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nat)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2026, 3:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ai-11/406093/2 "2026-06-25T03:07:18Z")
The first response timing makes sense.
It looks like the second response timing comes after a reply and is possibly a few things..
- job retry issue
- user quick edits (but then that’s too many)
Can you confirm 36646-36656 replies are for the post in 36578?
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### Author:  [@singi2016cn](https://meta.discourse.org/u/singi2016cn)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2026, 3:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ai-11/406093/3 "2026-06-25T03:11:10Z")
I set it to trigger only when the post is the original post in the topic. In theory, there should only be one auto\_reply\_bot record, and the same goes for other posts. But suddenly, one post received 11 replies, which is quite confusing.
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### Author:  [@singi2016cn](https://meta.discourse.org/u/singi2016cn)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2026, 3:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ai-11/406093/4 "2026-06-25T03:15:12Z")
Looks like all of these are replies to the original post. Was the automation triggered repeatedly?
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### Author:  [@nat](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nat)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2026, 3:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ai-11/406093/5 "2026-06-25T03:20:49Z")
The timings of the subsequent bot replies are quite suspicious.
By the way, @singi2016cn are you updated? Do you have workflows plugin? It’s a new core plugin intended to replace automation plugin, if you port your automation over it could be easier for troubleshooting.
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### Author:  [@singi2016cn](https://meta.discourse.org/u/singi2016cn)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2026, 3:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ai-11/406093/6 "2026-06-25T03:22:55Z")
Discourse v2026.1.4 — [https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commits/02ecb80804](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commits/02ecb80804) — Ember v6.6.0
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### Author:  [@singi2016cn](https://meta.discourse.org/u/singi2016cn)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2026, 3:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ai-11/406093/7 "2026-06-25T03:23:25Z")
> [@nat](#):
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> automation plugin
I’m still using the automation plugin
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### Author:  [@nat](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nat)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2026, 4:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ai-11/406093/8 "2026-06-25T04:10:46Z")
> [@singi2016cn](#):
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> Discourse v2026.1.4
Yeah – I’m going to suggest that you update your instance.
“使用 ai 角色对帖子进行分类” doesn’t exist any more from what I can see in the codebase, I believe it’s a simple term change to “使用 AI 智能体对帖子进行分类”.
Regarding your issue, the automation plugin notoriously has always had idempotency issues. If you update, you should consider switching this “automation” to a “workflow” via the new workflow plugin.
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### Author:  [@nat](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nat)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2026, 12:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ai-11/406093/9 "2026-06-29T00:00:21Z")
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