# Display Reason for Automatic Blocks by System **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/display-reason-for-automatic-blocks-by-system/43702 **Category:** Feature **Created:** [May 5, 2016, 2:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/display-reason-for-automatic-blocks-by-system/43702 "2016-05-05T02:48:08Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 15
### Author: ![jomaxro](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jomaxro/32/126216_2.png) [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro) #### Post date: [May 6, 2016, 7:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/display-reason-for-automatic-blocks-by-system/43702/15 "2016-05-06T07:04:24Z")
Looking back in time, it seems this has come up many time before. Interestingly, it seems @zogstrip put in a fix 2 months ago when I reported it (totally forgot I reported this 😆). > [@User blocked for no apparent reason](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-blocked-for-no-apparent-reason/41251): > > So…the other day (well, 14 days ago, but I forgot…) we noticed that a user on Stonehearth was blocked, and we can’t figure out why! For the Discourse devs, here is the PM where we discussed the randomly blocked user: [http://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/did-anyone-block-a-user-lately/20556?u=jomaxro](http://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/did-anyone-block-a-user-lately/20556?u=jomaxro) Both moderators (myself and @8bitcrab) and admins (@sdee and @brad) on the site checked the logs, and we confirmed on Slack that no-one initiated the block manually. No posts appeared for approval … > [@User blocked for no apparent reason](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-blocked-for-no-apparent-reason/41251/5): > > I checked and what @codinghorror described is what happened. User was automatically blocked because they were identified as a fast typer (ie. they copied and pasted something). > > It was unfortunately not logged, so I fixed it 😉 [https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/f15d463eb8a73edd180ec0d6f3eff15187eded51](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/f15d463eb8a73edd180ec0d6f3eff15187eded51) --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/display-reason-for-automatic-blocks-by-system/43702)._