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Ask PG: Why did I just get a "stop spamming us" message?

• ColinWright 15y ago
  I also got that the other day when submitting something via the bookmarklet. When I opened the "submit" page and copied things into the boxes (copy/paste) then it all worked. Not sure what is being triggered, but it looks like more than one false positive for "spam" detection. EDIT: As an experiment I've just tried to submit using the bookmarklet the RSA Animate of the talk and got the message again ... then I tried "by hand". Both times I got the "Stop spamming us" message. I wonder if it's the direct link to the YouTube video that's the problem ... Now I've succeeded with a link to a different site. PG: You have an interesting glitch in your spam detection.
  • krmmalik 15y ago
    I just used the search function to look for HN submissions that contained the same keywords in the title, and noticed there are previous submissions that do. Even though its a different link and different content. I wonder if that's causing the glitch?
• davidw 15y ago
  It looks like you post an awful lot of stuff from your own site, maybe that triggers something.
  • ColinWright 15y ago
    That seems to have been a long time ago, and the same can't be said of me. I've triggered it now twice by submitting direct links to YouTube. Not conclusive, but it's a start.
    • stonemetal 15y ago
      I know there is a list of domains that are have been banned maybe youtube has now made the list.
      • hugh3 15y ago
        Nope, I successfully posted a youtube video yesterday. (Nobody upmodded it though, which is a shame, cuz it was totally awesome.)
        • ColinWright 15y ago
          Not according to your list of submissions you didn't. http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=hugh3 http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=hugh3
          • dangrossman 15y ago
            It's there but [dead]. You have to change your preferences to show dead links.
            • hugh3 15y ago
              Well shoot. I didn't get a "stop spamming" message. For what it's worth, the video is called "The Kepler Orrery" and it's an animation showing all the multi-planet systems discovered by the Kepler mission so far, side by side, with the same length and time scale. It's pretty awesome.
              • ColinWright 15y ago
                As an experiment (and I wouldn't normally advocate this) try submitting it again, see if you get the message this time. EDIT: Actually, having gone and found it, don't. It doesn't really contain any seinsible information that I can see - it just appears to be a lot of spinning circles, some music, and no real information about what you're actually looking at. It might be great, but it's impossible for me to see why.
  • krmmalik 15y ago
    I dont post that often, and i've had other submissions go straight through only just last week.
• shawndumas 15y ago
  I got it once when I tried to post an Apple Press Release when iCloud was announced...
• mattdeboard 15y ago
  Reminds me of the link last week re: 130% effective spam filter.
• revorad 15y ago
  RSA submissions on Thursday afternoons from accounts less than 2 years old are banned.
• nextparadigms 15y ago
  I got the same message when linking to a Youtube video.
• powertower 15y ago
  Youtube link to Andrew Warner and James Altucher talk. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_4yfn0bG50 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_4yfn0bG50 Gave me the same message.
• jcfrei 15y ago
  maybe some bayesian learning algorithm disseminates the url you submitted and calculates a spam possibility based on the tokens (then the token 'youtube' might have a high bias for spam). just a thought though, that I got after reading http://paulgraham.com/spam.html http://paulgraham.com/spam.html
  • johnx123 15y ago
    Hackers may not eat their own dog food!!
• Sukotto 15y ago
  I see lots of successful youtube.com submissions. According to SearchYC[1], the most recent successful posting of a youtube link was 2 months ago http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2417032 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2417032 According to HNSearch[2] it was 2 days ago http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2651680 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2651680 [1] http://searchyc.com/submissions/youtube.com?only=domain&sort=by_date http://searchyc.com/submissions/youtube.com?only=domain&... [2] http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=youtube.com&sortby=create_ts+desc http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=you...
  • johnx123 15y ago
    He might borked it lately
• pg 15y ago
  This happens when you submit a link to a spam site. When it happens to innocent people it's usually because some site has been mistakenly classified as a spam site, e.g. by an admin fat-fingering something on an iPhone.
  • anotherjesse 15y ago
    It is very easy to fat finger the "flag" link as a user when browsing from a phone. Any thoughts on a mobile skin to HN that removes flag?
    • pg 15y ago
      One day I'll make a mobile-optimized version.
      • wensing 15y ago
        In the meantime keep funding fledgling companies and we'll choose from the abundance of HN apps already available. :)
        • joelhooks 15y ago
          Do you have a favorite? The one I liked and paid for hasn't been updated in a long time and is essentially broken.
          • halostatue 15y ago
            I switched to news:yc recently and am very happy with it.
            • joelhooks 15y ago
              Ahhh, thanks. That is just what I was looking for.
      • palish 15y ago
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