# Flagged, but no idea why, and no "contact moderator" option

**URL:** https://f.ruuvi.com/t/flagged-but-no-idea-why-and-no-contact-moderator-option/5007
**Category:** 🇬🇧 Electronics & programming
**Created:** [18 September 2021 09:53 UTC](https://f.ruuvi.com/t/flagged-but-no-idea-why-and-no-contact-moderator-option/5007 "2021-09-18T09:53:58Z")
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### Author: ![co12294](https://f.ruuvi.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ba9def/32.png) [@co12294](https://f.ruuvi.com/u/co12294)
#### Post date: [18 September 2021 09:53 UTC](https://f.ruuvi.com/t/flagged-but-no-idea-why-and-no-contact-moderator-option/5007/1 "2021-09-18T09:53:58Z")

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Hello to anyone with moderator ability,

I’m super confused…I was trying to cross-post related to processing Gateway metrics for Home Assistant with a message that included a link to the repo; when I tried to submit it, I got a message that I wasn’t allowed to link to that URL, and then I received a message that I’d been flagged by a user (“possibly for SPAM”) and that I could sit in timeout and think about it for 10 mins. There was a nice suggestion to read the TOS as well, which I did. I couldn’t find anything that says don’t cross-post, and I couldn’t find anything that says don’t post links to your own github repo. If it’s really a community member who flagged it and not some kind of bot, uh…

Help?

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### Author: ![Denis\_Andreev](https://f.ruuvi.com/user_avatar/f.ruuvi.com/denis_andreev/32/2190_2.png) [@Denis\_Andreev](https://f.ruuvi.com/u/Denis_Andreev)
#### Post date: [18 September 2021 16:23 UTC](https://f.ruuvi.com/t/flagged-but-no-idea-why-and-no-contact-moderator-option/5007/2 "2021-09-18T16:23:18Z")

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It was automatic spam protection: This new user tried to create multiple posts with links to the same domain. All posts from this user that include links should be reviewed.

Everything should be fine now.

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### Author: ![Denis\_Andreev](https://f.ruuvi.com/user_avatar/f.ruuvi.com/denis_andreev/32/2190_2.png) [@Denis\_Andreev](https://f.ruuvi.com/u/Denis_Andreev)
#### Post date: [18 September 2021 16:26 UTC](https://f.ruuvi.com/t/flagged-but-no-idea-why-and-no-contact-moderator-option/5007/3 "2021-09-18T16:26:42Z")

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@ojousima should we add github to allowlist?

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### Author: ![co12294](https://f.ruuvi.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ba9def/32.png) [@co12294](https://f.ruuvi.com/u/co12294)
#### Post date: [18 September 2021 18:12 UTC](https://f.ruuvi.com/t/flagged-but-no-idea-why-and-no-contact-moderator-option/5007/4 "2021-09-18T18:12:45Z")

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I figured…thanks! I appreciate the fact that the forum is not full of junk posts. 👍

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### Author: ![otso](https://f.ruuvi.com/user_avatar/f.ruuvi.com/otso/32/1651_2.png) [@otso](https://f.ruuvi.com/u/otso)
#### Post date: [20 September 2021 08:04 UTC](https://f.ruuvi.com/t/flagged-but-no-idea-why-and-no-contact-moderator-option/5007/5 "2021-09-20T08:04:25Z")

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> [@Denis\_Andreev](#):
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> @ojousima should we add github to allowlist?

Yeah, added [github.com](http://github.com) to whitelist. Thanks for the heads-up 🙂