# Akismet has temporarily hidden your post, but which one?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/akismet-has-temporarily-hidden-your-post-but-which-one/33872
**Category:** UX
**Tags:** akismet
**Created:** [29 september 2015 om 11:00 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/akismet-has-temporarily-hidden-your-post-but-which-one/33872 "2015-09-29T11:00:32Z")
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### Author: ![erlend\_sh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/erlend_sh/32/119475_2.png) [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [26 oktober 2015 om 14:57 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/akismet-has-temporarily-hidden-your-post-but-which-one/33872/9 "2015-10-26T14:57:25Z")

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I’ve been caught by the Akismet net a couple times as well when I’m making my first post to a forum. It’s quite unpleasant as a newcomer.

Another mitigating factor might be to not entirely hide your post after it’s been flagged by Akismet. Instead, use Discourse’s existing styling for trunkated…

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/1/8/18f258038cf16a4e67c231e5f693e9c4c4b986ec.png)

or flagged posts:

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/5/f/5fc9af8a750bfceb8219736266d02660349ee2e1.png)

And reuse the Akismet copy along with a linkified “View your hidden post”. That way you won’t have that uncomfortable _“but where did it go!?”_-feeling.

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