# Users Automatically Blocked by System

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/users-automatically-blocked-by-system/41579
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 25, 2016, 10:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/users-automatically-blocked-by-system/41579 "2016-03-25T22:08:26Z")
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### Author: ![cpradio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cpradio/32/4970_2.png) [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2016, 10:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/users-automatically-blocked-by-system/41579/2 "2016-03-25T22:24:28Z")

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Chances are they are either posting extremely fast, such as clicking reply, pasting something and hitting the reply button within 3 seconds (this is a site setting).

Or, they are getting picked up via the Needs Approval queue.

Also see

> [@User blocked for no apparent reason](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-blocked-for-no-apparent-reason/41251):
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> 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 …

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