# Discobot tutorial flagged as spam

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discobot-tutorial-flagged-as-spam/112731
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 27, 2019, 4:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discobot-tutorial-flagged-as-spam/112731 "2019-03-27T16:58:26Z")
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### Author: ![tshenry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tshenry/32/119495_2.png) [@tshenry](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tshenry)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2019, 3:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discobot-tutorial-flagged-as-spam/112731/3 "2019-03-28T03:48:54Z")

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Hi Ryan,

So, while I wasn’t able to fully reproduce this behavior, likely due to a spam-check job that runs at a certain time, here is what I believe happened:

- The site setting `newuser_spam_host_threshold` is defaulted to 3. The description of this setting is:

- At 9:41am the **System** user flagged 4 posts at once for the user in question. Each flag had the same message:

- The other two flags listed are from the discobot tutorial, but are referring to the naturally posted links (wikipedia and image) and have not met the threshold under this user.

- **Main Suspicion:** When a user breaks the spam host threshold, ALL posts (including PMs) where they have included links are included to make sure they are dealt with if they are confirmed a spammer.

So technically speaking, I _think_ it’s doing what was intended. It looks like you’ve configured `white_listed_spam_host_domains` with some common hosts, but if you keep getting false-positives, you could try raising the `newuser_spam_host_threshold` sightly and bring it back down if there are any issues.

Let me know if you need any more information.

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