I ran into a problem renewing a TLS/SSL certificate via Let’s Encrypt for a Ghost blog I maintain.
I found two relevant posts:
- How to renew lets encrypt ssl after 3 months in digital ocean - Help - Ghost Forum
Update ACME Let’s Encrypt SSL Client - General - Ghost Forum
Like several other commenters, my Ghost blog is using the acme.sh client to handle certificates via Let’s Encrypt.
I made three comments on the above two posts that were apparently flagged as spam – I received three ‘system’ messages claiming that. The comments:
[Apparently I can only include three (3) links in a post/topic! I’ve removed the links to the comments – maybe someone else reading this can find the “ignored” comments themselves.]
In two of the comments I linked to an issue in the GitHub project for acme.sh.
Someone replied to my comment on one of the posts and I just replied with some more info – but I was unable to post the comment as originally written because I tried to link to the same acme.sh GitHub issue as before. From a cursory Google search, I found some evidence that this a general Discourse feature, i.e. preventing a user from posting links to the same domain a certain number of times in a certain period.
I can appreciate that preventing spam is important, and useful, but none of those comments seem like spam – I certainly only intended to provide some useful info about a problem I was having with my own Ghost blog.
