# Determine why 'system' user blocked a human user?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/determine-why-system-user-blocked-a-human-user/53227
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [21 november 2016 om 23:49 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/determine-why-system-user-blocked-a-human-user/53227 "2016-11-21T23:49:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)
#### Post date: [21 november 2016 om 23:49 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/determine-why-system-user-blocked-a-human-user/53227/1 "2016-11-21T23:49:32Z")
Hi there. Is there any way to determine why `system` would have blocked a new user to our forums?
The same user was also sent an automatic message stating the following:
> Hello,
> This is an automated message from LibreHealth Forums to let you know that your account has been temporarily placed on hold as a precautionary measure.
> Please do continue to browse, but you won’t be able to reply or create topics until a staff member2 reviews your most recent posts. We apologize for the inconvenience.
> For additional guidance, refer to our [community guidelines](https://meta.discourse.org/guidelines).
… but there’s no guidance as to why this user would have been flagged. Any ideas?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [21 november 2016 om 23:56 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/determine-why-system-user-blocked-a-human-user/53227/2 "2016-11-21T23:56:53Z")
Usually Akismet related.
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### Author:  [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)
#### Post date: [21 november 2016 om 23:58 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/determine-why-system-user-blocked-a-human-user/53227/3 "2016-11-21T23:58:08Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> Usually Akismet related
Except we’re not running Akismet on this system (yet). 🙂
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [21 november 2016 om 23:58 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/determine-why-system-user-blocked-a-human-user/53227/4 "2016-11-21T23:58:57Z")
Other than that, new users who paste in content or otherwise “type” extremely fast are quite suspect to the system.
That is a #1 spammer activity.
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### Author:  [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)
#### Post date: [22 november 2016 om 00:00 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/determine-why-system-user-blocked-a-human-user/53227/5 "2016-11-22T00:00:04Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> paste in content or otherwise “type” extremely fast
That would make sense given the nature of the flagged post, and I’ll venture to guess that was the cause. Thanks!
PS: It would be nice if this would be logged somehow 👼
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [22 november 2016 om 00:09 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/determine-why-system-user-blocked-a-human-user/53227/6 "2016-11-22T00:09:02Z")
The adding of the details is likely still very low on the priority list
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/lack-of-information-about-why-user-is-banned-and-no-notification-while-unbanning/48776/8?u=cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/t/lack-of-information-about-why-user-is-banned-and-no-notification-while-unbanning/48776/8)
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### Author:  [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)
#### Post date: [22 november 2016 om 00:09 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/determine-why-system-user-blocked-a-human-user/53227/7 "2016-11-22T00:09:40Z")
Fair enough. Thanks!
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [25 januari 2017 om 11:36 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/determine-why-system-user-blocked-a-human-user/53227/8 "2017-01-25T11:36:53Z")
Didn’t @neil fix this recently? So auto-blocks have a log entry at least.
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [25 januari 2017 om 12:40 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/determine-why-system-user-blocked-a-human-user/53227/9 "2017-01-25T12:40:30Z")
I believe so. I think this can be closed
> [@Log more admin actions](https://meta.discourse.org/t/log-more-admin-actions/55390/5):
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> I handled all the things mentioned in this topic. log lock/unlock trust level log activate/deactivate user context added for deleted post because author deleted stop displaying email addresses of deleted users. The screened emails list will show the emails of spammers/bad people. stop displaying email address for revoked email (can be found on user record as usual)
> [@Log more admin actions](https://meta.discourse.org/t/log-more-admin-actions/55390/7):
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> Yes the context will include something like “blocked by staff” and “too many flags”, from the reason for the block.
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### Author:  [@neil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/neil)
#### Post date: [25 januari 2017 om 15:37 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/determine-why-system-user-blocked-a-human-user/53227/10 "2017-01-25T15:37:16Z")