Adding iNaturalist url to Project description triggered "This has been flagged as spam"

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Platform PC browser
Browser Firefox
URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages:
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/all-things-fungi-festival-2023

Description of problem (please provide a set of steps we can use to replicate the issue, and make as many as you need.):

After updating the Project description to include a link to DNA Barcoded observations in the project, the project was flagged as spam and no longer accessible to be edited.

Link that was included in project that appeared to trigger spam filter: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&project_id=all-things-fungi-festival-2023&verifiable=any&field:DNA%20Barcode%20ITS=

I had previously also made a journal post for the project including the same link

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Not really a bug. All content made by accounts with fewer than 4 RG observations get checked by our spam filter, which is made by Akismet. What exactly triggers the spam filter isn’t really up to us and is somewhat of a black box and I’m sure changes all the time.

I thint the issue is that it’s a new account adding links and text to a public page, not the specific link. Similar things can happen if a new account is adding text/links to their profile, etc. I’ve marked the allthingsfungi_festival account as an non-spammer so its content will no longer by checked by the spam filter. Should be fine now.

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Thanks for the clarification and solution

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