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Andrew Neil
Super User
October 12, 2026
Question

Spurious notification links to old post

This morning I got this notification, for a post it says was “1 hour ago”:

 

But it links to this post - which is 4 days old:

 

 

I think I’ve seen this before.

2 replies

Maxime MARCHETTO
ST Community Manager
October 12, 2026

Hello ​@Andrew Neil,

Thank you for bringing this to our attention.

The discrepancy between the notification time and the reply timestamp is due to this reply being mistakenly flagged as a false positive by the spam filter. Once it was reviewed, the post was made public again.

According to your screenshot, the post remained in the spam folder for 4 days, which I agree was longer than it should have been.

Best regard,
Maxime

 

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Andrew Neil
Super User
October 12, 2026

The discrepancy between the notification time and the reply timestamp is due to this reply being mistakenly flagged as a false positive by the spam filter

thanks for the update - I thought it might be something like that!

 

According to your screenshot, the post remained in the spam folder for 4 days

I had definitely seen that post before - I think before the weekend.

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