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Why did this get [flagged]? Is that solely user reports? It seems like a good link.
by wlesieutre 10y ago
Why did this get [flagged]? Is that solely user reports? It seems like a good link.
- anonymoushn 10y agoIt looks like there's some issue with this user's submissions https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=rudi-rau https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=rudi-rau
- cocktailpeanuts 10y agowhat is "some issue"? looks fine to me
- wyldfire 10y agoIf you've got 'showdead' on you can see lots of previous submissions marked 'dead'. None of them look obviously inappropriate but maybe the algorithm sees something I can't. There is a high-ish submission frequency (2-3 per day).
- ruleabidinguser 10y agoPerhaps they're purchasing upvotes?
- root_axis 10y agoThe posting account probably triggered some kind of spam classifier. No comments and a bunch of submissions in relatively quick succession.
- Retric 10y agoAt work I got: Cyber Security - Web URL Blocked Which might be related?
- rocho 10y agoI'm the author of the post. Could you help me figure out what is triggering the warning?
- Retric 10y agoI don't get a lot of info, but the URL (*.xyz) is kind of odd and might be the issue?
- rocho 10y agoWeird, I don't see why a whole TLD would be blocked. Even Alphabet uses it! I chose it because .io was way too expensive for my student budget and xyz looked cool.
- flyinghamster 10y agoI hate to say this, but on the server I manage at my day job, I've never, ever seen legitimate email traffic from an .xyz domain, or a .club, .rocks, .work, or any other "gold rush" TLD. Nothing but snowshoe spam/phishing/malware, to the point that my policy is "block on sight."
- rajathagasthya 10y agoI got the same from work VPN.
- TJSomething 10y agoMy work doesn't like most URLs with xyz TLDs.
- rocho 10y agoI would also like to know what this means. I'm the author of the post, by the way. When I submitted the link I found out that it had already been submitted.
- dang 10y agoIt is a good link! There's a problem, but it has nothing to do with the site or the article or its author.