# First issue I am creating is flagged as spam
**URL:** https://discourse.cmake.org/t/first-issue-i-am-creating-is-flagged-as-spam/10689
**Category:** Site Feedback
**Created:** [April 18, 2024, 11:55am UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/first-issue-i-am-creating-is-flagged-as-spam/10689 "2024-04-18T11:55:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@imcinerney](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/imcinerney)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2024, 11:55am UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/first-issue-i-am-creating-is-flagged-as-spam/10689/1 "2024-04-18T11:55:13Z")
I have just registered for the KitWare Gitlab site to try to report an issue I am facing and debugged in some of the built-in Find modules, but when I go through and fill out the issue form and try to submit it, I get the error that my issue has been flagged as spam. I can understand some spam protection, but I am not sure what would be triggering this on my issue. Is this just because my account was created just a short time ago (even though I used the GitHub integration to create it)? Is there a way to rectify this so I can submit issues into the issue tracker?
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### Author:  [@brad.king](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/brad.king)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2024, 12:03pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/first-issue-i-am-creating-is-flagged-as-spam/10689/2 "2024-04-18T12:03:03Z")
Sorry about that. Unfortunately we get a lot of spam without the filter, but it often has false positives too.
We’ve marked your attempts as “ham”, so please try again.
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### Author:  [@imcinerney](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/imcinerney)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2024, 12:24pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/first-issue-i-am-creating-is-flagged-as-spam/10689/3 "2024-04-18T12:24:39Z")
Thanks! That worked.
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### Author:  [@kmr-srbh](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/kmr-srbh)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2025, 10:31am UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/first-issue-i-am-creating-is-flagged-as-spam/10689/4 "2025-01-09T10:31:02Z")
I am a new user and facing the same issue. I am unable to open an MR. My commit is [https://gitlab.kitware.com/kmr-srbh/cmake/-/commit/affbacaca54c607e3cc90c5ea4064e9a9a3d8642](https://gitlab.kitware.com/kmr-srbh/cmake/-/commit/affbacaca54c607e3cc90c5ea4064e9a9a3d8642).
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### Author:  [@brad.king](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/brad.king)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2025, 2:20pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/first-issue-i-am-creating-is-flagged-as-spam/10689/5 "2025-01-09T14:20:27Z")
@kmr-srbh we’ve marked the attempts as “ham”. Please try again.
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### Author:  [@kmr-srbh](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/kmr-srbh)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2025, 6:19pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/first-issue-i-am-creating-is-flagged-as-spam/10689/6 "2025-01-09T18:19:36Z")
Thanks @brad.king! I have opened the MR 🙂
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### Author:  [@emmenlau](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/emmenlau)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2025, 8:59am UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/first-issue-i-am-creating-is-flagged-as-spam/10689/7 "2025-01-12T08:59:27Z")
I’ve actually created quite a number of issues before, but now I’m also unable to create a new issue, with the same error. Could you kindly “whitelist” me? 😀
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### Author:  [@brad.king](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/brad.king)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2025, 1:54pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/first-issue-i-am-creating-is-flagged-as-spam/10689/8 "2025-01-13T13:54:39Z")
@emmenlau we’ve marked your attempts as “ham”.