all my posts blocked as spam
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on my account "pimpmaul69" i cannot post anything. i get a "your post was flagged as spam by akismet.com" on every post i try to make. it happens on both my computer and my phone. please can you help me fix this. i had to create this account just to post this to try to find out the problem.
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Not completely sure but it might be due to our anti spam plugin and the way flagging works (One of your posts was flagged for moderation by a user, with the comment to split it off to its own thread - Unless they clicked spam it shouldn't have been submitted to akismet though). I have removed the flag now, but it might be that this caused akismet to associate your account with spam (maybe they pressed the wrong button). I have disabled the submit flags posts feature in our anti spam plugin now.
Please can you try posting again now with your other account ?
To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first
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@BuZz said in all my posts blocked as spam:
Not completely sure but it might be due to our anti spam plugin and the way flagging works (One of your posts was flagged for moderation by a user, with the comment to split it off to its own thread - Unless they clicked spam it shouldn't have been submitted to akismet though). I have removed the flag now, but it might be that this caused akismet to associate your account with spam (maybe they pressed the wrong button). I have disabled the submit flags posts feature in our anti spam plugin now.
Please can you try posting again now with your other account ?
i am still getting the same error
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Not sure if I can fix this if your email address has been associated on Akismet - but you can fill out a contact form here - https://akismet.com/contact/
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changing the email address associated with your account may help too (if you have another address).
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unfortunately i used my other email address to set up this account. i will use this account if i have to but i will try to fix my other account with that form. can you tell me which post was the issue? i would like in the future to make sure i dont make the same mistake. i try to keep my post relevant to the question posted but obviously i did something wrong
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Damn! I was the one who flagged this post. My reasoning: it was about another topic than the new carbon theme, but rather about how to take snapshots using raspi2png. This of course a valid question and deserves its own topic to discuss it.
The flagging menu gives me three options : 'spam', 'offensive', or 'enter reason for flagging here'. I filled in this last box to indicate my request to move the post and pressed 'flag this post'.
Now I feel really bad, if I knew this meant an effective auto-ban for you, I would have never touched the button!!
If tetris has thought me anything, it's that errors pile up and that accomplishments dissappear.
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@Zigurana said in all my posts blocked as spam:
Damn! I was the one who flagged this post. My reasoning: it was about another topic than the new carbon theme, but rather about how to take snapshots using raspi2png. This of course a valid question and deserves its own topic to discuss it.
The flagging menu gives me three options : 'spam', 'offensive', or 'enter reason for flagging here'. I filled in this last box to indicate my request to move the post and pressed 'flag this post'.
Now I feel really bad, if I knew this meant an effective auto-ban for you, I would have never touched the button!!
yeah it sucks but nothing we can do about it now. @ buzz, i went to the site and signed up but i cant do anything without paying for a subscription. so i guess im just s.o.l. :(
edit: it finally let me post a response on their site
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@Zigurana also a thought, are you able to go to the post and unflag it? im not sure if you can here or not.
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@edmaul69 said in all my posts blocked as spam:
@Zigurana also a thought, are you able to go to the post and unflag it? im not sure if you can here or not.
Yeah I checked, but there is no hint my previous action, let alone some kind of undo button.
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@Zigurana I don't actually know if that was the cause - it shouldn't have done anything unless flagged as spam - and it might be due to IP address or something from another site that uses akismet.
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The only fix we can do this side is to disable the anti spam, or reduce the points needed for a post to be considered badly flagged, which would affect all users. Let's see what happens with your form submitted to akismet first. I can remove your new account if you want to try switching the email on the other one.
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When I wrote this post saying "You can add a spice to your playing using the RetroAchievements feature" the message wasn't posted on the first try. I received a message saying something about spam.
I'm not sure if we have such a filter here, but I was thinking that it was blocked due to the word "spice". Then I tried again and the message was posted...
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I will wait for their response. Im afraid to change the email and then have both my emails not working. If they dont fix it i will just use this account. I only post on 2 forums and atariage doesnt use akismet, so it has to do with this but its no big deal, i just hope it doesnt happen again on this account
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I am also having an issue with my posts being flagged as spam. I am trying to reply to my own thread found here: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/2285/help-configuring-shortcut-codes-for-mupen64plus/2 and I keep getting a message saying "post content was flagged as spam by akismet". I have submitted the form on their site letting them know that my account was flagged.
For reference this is my post content which IMO doesn't look spammy at all: http://pastebin.com/k62s69kJ
EDIT: It seems to have been fixed now, before I wasn't able to submit this or any other post.
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I am going to disable akismet for now, due to the problems. We might get away with it - we had a lot of spam a month or so ago, which continued to happen even with our anti spam measures, but seems to have mostly stopped now.
There is a facility to ignore akismet results for people with X amount of reputation, however, this doesn't help new users.
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Now disabled. Apologies for any inconvenience. We may have to re-enable it though if spam gets out of control again (We already have a captcha, email address validation, and some additional measures, however much spam these days is done by people, so it's difficult to stop.)
To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first
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@BuZz I am corresponding with Akismet in regards to my issues and they aren't sure what is wrong. They have asked me to fill out another more detailed form explaining the issue. As edmaul69 did I decided to logout of my flagged account and attempt to create a new one.
I went one step further for testing purposes and signed in to my PIA VPN, choose a random endpoint, and signed up for a new account with a different email address so I could come to this thread and report that I was having problems. Upon attempting to submit my reply my new account was immediately denied for the same reason claiming my post content was flagged as spam by akismet. -
@chaberman said in all my posts blocked as spam:
@BuZz I am corresponding with Akismet in regards to my issues and they aren't sure what is wrong. They have asked me to fill out another more detailed form explaining the issue. As edmaul69 did I decided to logout of my flagged account and attempt to create a new one.
I went one step further for testing purposes and signed in to my PIA VPN, choose a random endpoint, and signed up for a new account with a different email address so I could come to this thread and report that I was having problems. Upon attempting to submit my reply my new account was immediately denied for the same reason claiming my post content was flagged as spam by -
@BuZz said in all my posts blocked as spam:
Now disabled. Apologies for any inconvenience. We may have to re-enable it though if spam gets out of control again (We already have a captcha, email address validation, and some additional measures, however much spam these days is done by people, so it's difficult to stop.)
You might want to re-enable the akismet. Korean spam is out of control in gaming section..... I am sticking with this username because i have 3 rep points so i can post as i need to and i dont want to lose that. I only had 2 on my other one and somehow lost one point. Im assuming from the spam report.
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