500s and "Body is too similar to what you recently posted" errors

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#1

When posting, I sometimes get a “500” error and then the message “Body is too similar to what you recently posted” when I retry. Nothing is successfully posted in such cases.

#2

Had the same problem in https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/500-internal-server-error-and-trying-to-get-ones-post-through/7369

#3

The “Body is too similar” is to stop people from spamming multiple threads with the same content. We’re hoping to fix the 500s with a Discourse update soon.

#4

Was the update in concern carried out meanwhile? When trying to start a new topic in the addons.mozilla.org category, I still get notified about a “500 internal server error”. I get no message about similarity, but the post is not created nonetheless. As you see, answering here works fine.

Do I lack privileges to post there? Is this something that should be fixed? Is any workaround known?

#5

A few days later, the post was accepted without any problems.

#6

If it’s to stop too similar threads from being created, why does it prohibit me from editing an existing thread?

#7

An update we did last night broke post editing, I’m deploying a fix right now.

Edit: updated and fixed

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