# Confusing spam threshold host error message

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/confusing-spam-threshold-host-error-message/178332>\
**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [February 3, 2021, 10:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/confusing-spam-threshold-host-error-message/178332 "2021-02-03T22:08:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2025, 11:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/confusing-spam-threshold-host-error-message/178332/4 "2025-08-13T23:20:17Z")

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You can disable this protection on your forum by bumping up `newuser_spam_host_threshold`

Surprisingly it is set to 100 here on meta and I am not noticing any particularly concerning behaviors. In the age of AI spam scanning this protection is less important.

@hugh any thoughts here?

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