Auto Thread Moderation Issue Resolved

[Chris]

Lately a few users have complained about posts randomly being pulled for moderation. This is due to the forums anti-spam service titled akismet. It sometimes returns false positives on threads that are not actually spam. This generally happens when a user includes several links to websites that are not well known.

I've throttled back the akismet service so that users with more than 5 posts will no longer be scanned for spam, provided that their first 5 posts have not been flagged.


If you continue to have an auto-moderation problem, please PM me.


Thanks.

[Rationella]

Thanks, Chris, for the explanation. One of my comments with a link went to moderation and I figured it was likely the link that triggered some spam guard, but nice to have that confirmed.
And thanks for attempting to limit the inconvenience to regular members.

[Kaeso]

I was wondering why that was happening. Thanks for the speedy fix!