Why is my question is marked as spam?

[Maciej Olszewski]

Hello,

I posted my questions few moments ago https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/GROOVY-Sprint-removing/qaq-p/793374#M256024 and immediately i got marked as SPAM :( , can somebody tell me why? This is really important to me and my team :(

Thanks in advance,
Maciej 

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

There's a lot of reasons a post might be marked spam, the algorithms are not simple, but not spectacularly clever either.  Posts with external links or code or random words are the main triggers, but there's also volume of repetetive text or even things like [] in titles instead of using labels.

I've had a look and un-spammed your posts.  (There's a lot of junk at the moment, looks like some salesman has decided to attack us)

[Maciej Olszewski]

thank you!

[Gezim Shehu [Communardo]]

Hi Nic,

Do you mean that posts containing code blocks are likely to be marked?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

My understanding is that it's a weighting system.  It looks for various patterns in the postings and if it finds one of them, it adds a certain weight to a counter.  Once the weight goes over a threshold, it's treated as spam.

Code blocks have a bit of weight, but that has been reduced.  Code inside the code macro/formatting has even less weight (possibly 0?)

Hopefully, us removing spam from the list helps it learn!

[Gezim Shehu [Communardo]]

I See. Sounds interesting :)

Thanks for the details.

[Gezim Shehu [Communardo]]

I was also following someone's else question, and some weird notifications kept coming but no updates were made on the post.

Next thing I know that was marked as spam.

[Gezim Shehu [Communardo]]

and the guy keeps commenting but I can't access it.

[Maciej Olszewski]

this is kind of annoying because i didn't even get reason :/