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December 6, 2024
Question

Spam prevention - algorithm block more posts than before

  • December 6, 2024
  • 28 replies
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I dont have hard data, this is just a hunch, but I think  we have more posts marked as a spam than before.

And the problem is because they are ok posts, they should not be marked as a spam.

There are no links, or promotion, or suspicious text, images, nothing.

No matter are you new member or active member.

Have you seen this also?

    28 replies

    revote
    revoteAuthor
    VIP ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
    March 4, 2025

    Latest case:

    User posted to our community. Long post. After publishing, user noticed that there were typo, so user edited and fixed it. Then platform marked post as a spam.

    Then user posted two more posts, to other topics. They were marked as a spam also.

    --

    All of those 3 posts are ok, we dont see any reasons why they were marked as a spam.

    We have spoken with our moderators and there are other cases during latest months, when editing the post triggers spam filter and post will be hided. Is this planned behaviour?

    Let´s assume, that editing the post, triggers spams filter and post will be marked as a spam. Okay. Why the next posts will be marked also as a spam?

    I am sorry but this spam filter doesnt work, this is annoying.

    Chris Hackett
    Helper ⭐️⭐️⭐️
    March 4, 2025

    LOL ​@revote - We have similar with both spam and pending folders. At least a few times a day something gets caught and often as you say it happens to the same person on a few of their posts for no apparent reason. I’ve kinda given up trying to figure most of them out since when I have tried, rarely can I see why. Unfortunately it happens to our power uses the most and they just “roll their eyes” now and wait for approval.

    Chris
    revote
    revoteAuthor
    VIP ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
    March 5, 2025

    Latest case:

    User posted to our community. Long post. After publishing, user noticed that there were typo, so user edited and fixed it. Then platform marked post as a spam.

    Then user posted two more posts, to other topics. They were marked as a spam also.

    --

    All of those 3 posts are ok, we dont see any reasons why they were marked as a spam.

    We have spoken with our moderators and there are other cases during latest months, when editing the post triggers spam filter and post will be hided. Is this planned behaviour?

    Let´s assume, that editing the post, triggers spams filter and post will be marked as a spam. Okay. Why the next posts will be marked also as a spam?

    I am sorry but this spam filter doesnt work, this is annoying.

    This occurred again, with other user.

    If first post is marked as a spam, next ones will be also marked as a spam.

    revote
    revoteAuthor
    VIP ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
    March 5, 2025

    LOL ​@revote - We have similar with both spam and pending folders. At least a few times a day something gets caught and often as you say it happens to the same person on a few of their posts for no apparent reason. I’ve kinda given up trying to figure most of them out since when I have tried, rarely can I see why. Unfortunately it happens to our power uses the most and they just “roll their eyes” now and wait for approval.

    Is spam prevention still on in your community? Or have you created spam bypass role for certain users?

    Kenneth R
    Expert ⭐️⭐️
    March 5, 2025

    Hey ​@revote - I’ve not heard of the editing of posts being a factor, but let me check with the teams about that. 

    And, indeed, ​@Chris Hackett - as Revote says it’s a great idea to exempt your most active users from the spam checker.  You can do that easily with a custom role, and could even assign that role automatically as part of your rank structure so that everyone apart from new-ish members is exempted.

    Suvi Lehtovaara
    Helper ⭐️⭐️
    May 20, 2025

     

    Latest case:

    User posted to our community. Long post. After publishing, user noticed that there were typo, so user edited and fixed it. Then platform marked post as a spam.

    Then user posted two more posts, to other topics. They were marked as a spam also.

    --

    All of those 3 posts are ok, we dont see any reasons why they were marked as a spam.

    We have spoken with our moderators and there are other cases during latest months, when editing the post triggers spam filter and post will be hided. Is this planned behaviour?

    Let´s assume, that editing the post, triggers spams filter and post will be marked as a spam. Okay. Why the next posts will be marked also as a spam?

    I am sorry but this spam filter doesnt work, this is annoying.

    This exact thing ​@revote here descriped seems to be happening in our community right now. The user affected is an community active and cannot post anything atm without it going to spam. He mentioned that he edited some typos.

    EDIT: I created a ticket to support about this….

    https://yhteiso.elisa.fi/
    revote
    revoteAuthor
    VIP ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
    May 20, 2025

    EDIT: I created a ticket to support about this….

    Good luck with this 😊

    Suvi Lehtovaara
    Helper ⭐️⭐️
    May 20, 2025

    EDIT: I created a ticket to support about this….

    Good luck with this 😊

    😎

    https://yhteiso.elisa.fi/