Akismet hid a non-spam topic here on meta (false positive)

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I was browsing a new topic which contained a report of a failure to upgrade, and suddenly the topic was hidden by Akismet.

Might be worth investigating why it made that decision.

This is the topic, presently inaccessible:

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It was in the review queue, and I’ve now restored it :+1:

Unfortunately Akismet, like most spam-detection systems, is a ‘black box’. We don’t get any info on why something was flagged. But, we do automatically report back on false-positives so that they can improve their models.

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