Neither of these was actually spam, but that’s not a big deal. I’ve adjusted the spam host threshold. However, it’s weird that I got so many duplicate messages about it.
Discourse does not like new users who create a new account and post links to the same domain over and over out of the box – it’s considered risky, spam-indicative behavior.
You can adjust the threshold in the site settings, of course.
Yep, agreed there are not ten duplicate flags, but there were ten duplicate messages. They show up in the ‘moderators’ section of the messages panel of the Let’s Encrypt forum.
I see, another cause here is the user posted logs but not as code blocks and those logs contained tons of URLs which were viewed as repeated links, aka spammers.
Also, at least one person whose messages were auto-hidden by the system as spam got multiple automated messages saying “Multiple community members flagged this post before it was hidden,” which isn’t true: it was just system that flagged his messages for spam.
To be clear, I have no problem with the “too many links” rule. I think that’s quite reasonable. But it seems like there may be some issues with how messages get sent out when it’s triggered.
In general new users who dump a ton of URLs in posts, erroneously or otherwise, are going to have problems. For now probably best to just relax the site settings around new users and URLs in this particular case with this particular audience.
