Any idea why discobot sent at least 4 of these to the same user over the course of a couple of days? Apparently even after the user replied with “skip”? discobot February 12 Hey @Deena , just checking in because I haven’t heard from you in a while. To continue, reply to me any time. If you’d li…

[image] codinghorror: He said it was sent 4 times. Maybe sidekiq is borked on his install? Nope all is good here. I checked the PM since it’s on our hosting and it’s because: the user started the tutorial stopped discobot followed up the user said skip discobot went to the next step user st…

Hi! To find out what I can do, say @discobot display help.

It appears the user started the new user tutorial then stopped partway through, causing Discobot to respond to see if the user still wants to engage. What other messages were sent other than the one you showed? What you are sharing here appears to be normal.

He said it was sent 4 times. Maybe sidekiq is borked on his install? That’s all I can think of. Looks like we host it though @justin

Ah yes that sounds possible. Will let them know. Thanks.

One of my moderators is also being spammed by the “Now that you’ve been promoted, it’s time to learn about some advanced features!” message. They’ve already done the tutorial, but keep being sent the message, at least 12 times by now. They’ve tried telling discobot to skip, but it hasn’t made a diff…

Yep, on 2.7.0.beta1. I also checked, and it doesn’t seem like this started when we updated, but instead about a week later.

Discobot is spamming a user

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) December 9, 2020, 5:01pm 10

Are you on the latest version of Discourse?

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Discobot is spamming a user

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