# User blocked for no apparent reason

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-blocked-for-no-apparent-reason/41251>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [Mars 18, 2016, 4:12 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-blocked-for-no-apparent-reason/41251 "2016-03-18T04:12:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [Mars 18, 2016, 4:17 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-blocked-for-no-apparent-reason/41251/2 "2016-03-18T04:17:28Z")

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Likely a post was sent through the anti spam mechanism, I.e. Pasting in a reply instead of typing it, tripping our “boy you sure do type awful fast for a new human user” protection and rejected by a mod or admin. This would block the user indefinitely.

In other words rejecting that post by a new user will auto block the user even though it does not explicitly say that. But possibly should. It is unclear what to do with a new user who trips this detector and has their first post rejected.

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