My prompt pack landed in spam for 3 weeks

I built a 40 prompt collection for dystopian flash fiction and posted it in a few writer groups. Turns out my link was marked as spam by the site's filter because I used a URL shortener, so nobody saw it for 21 days. Has anyone else had a good resource vanish because of a simple link mistake, and how did you fix it fast?

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jamie7122mo ago

and that is exactly what happened to me last year with a poetry resource list. I spent a whole weekend putting together maybe 50 links to free writing prompts and submission calls, all neatly sorted by theme. I thought I was being clever using a short link from one of those link shrinking sites so the post would look cleaner. Nobody saw it for over two weeks because the group's filter flagged it as spam, and by the time anyone spotted it, the conversation had moved on so far that only three people even replied. I ended up just copying the whole list into a plain text post with regular links, and that one got seen right away. The lesson stuck with me, now I never shorten links in groups, no matter how long and ugly they look.

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