Flagged as spam and editing privileges revoked

I was just fixing up the YouTube sync of a song, but when I tried to submit my contribution, Hookpad gave me the following message:

"Data Validation Failed. Please fix the following errors and try again.

  • Your comments were flagged as spam and your editing privileges have been paused. Please contact support for assistance if you think this was a mistake."

Does anyone know why this could’ve happened, and how I can get my editing privileges back after this, assuming it can be fixed in the first place? I added the note “Fixed the YouTube sync” to the contribution, so maybe Hookpad auto-detects that as some sort of red flag for a spam or vandalism edit(?) As far as I’m aware, I’ve always contributed positively and constructively to Hooktheory, so I’d find it hard to believe something in my editing behavior would justifiably warrant revoking my editing privileges, but if any admins think otherwise, please tell me.

Sorry all please bear with us. We had to quickly enable a spam filter for theorytab submission process as we are being bombarded with relentless spam (the bots keep won’t stop and keep altering their tactics and they moved to submitting theorytabs and making edits with spam song titles and comments).

We have a good solution that should solve this once and for all, but need to tune the filter and it’s clearly overly aggressive right now. I’ve re-enabled your accounts, but I suspect you may run into the same issue. Hopefully in the next 24 hours we’ll have things figured out.

I will try to monitor any accounts that get blocked from editing and re-enable them.

Thanks for your patience.

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Thank you very much for clearing things up, assuring me that it wasn’t my own fault, and restoring my privileges! Unfortunately, I got blocked again straight away when trying to do another edit, just like you already expected would happen, so I guess we’ll just have to wait until things have been resolved.

We pushed an update to the spam filter moments ago (08:00 AM Pacific Time 10/13) that we expect will fix this issue. Those of you that were blocked between 8PM 1/12 and 8AM 10/13 we will work to restore privileges this morning.

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I’m still blocked. Could you please unblock me?

I just unblocked you thanks

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Please unblock YoMama1999!

No because you created like 5 alts to bypass moderation just to grief and vandalize tabs by changing them to blantantly incorrect keys.

Stop trying to troll the community or being incompetent and move on. We know that you are jefd, we know that you post graphic content on your social media page. Just move on and find something productive

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Please unblock me. I’m sorry.

“BUT IT MAKES MORE SENSE TO KEEP YOU BLOCKED!!!”

We have no reason to tolerate this again and the community knows dang well you will repeat the cycle if we unblock you.

Maybe if you create an account that does something productive and helpful you might not get banned again.

Also since there is a bug with new edits not showing on “recently added” we cant trust you not to do that stuff again

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Hi @dave! I just encountered the same issue today after simply trying to update a TheoryTab with a new YouTube video. Any help? :slight_smile:

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