diff --git a/Changelog.md b/Changelog.md
index a531e0b94..9a2a53faf 100644
--- a/Changelog.md
+++ b/Changelog.md
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 * Dropped db/seeds.rb [#5896](https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/pull/5896)
 * Drop broken install scripts [#5907](https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/pull/5907)
 * Improve invoking mobile site in the testsuite [#5915](https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/pull/5915)
-* Do not retry a couple of unrecoverable job failures [#5938](https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/pull/5938)
+* Do not retry a couple of unrecoverable job failures [#5938](https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/pull/5938) [#5942](https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/pull/5943)
 
 ## Bug fixes
 * Disable auto follow back on aspect deletion [#5846](https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/pull/5846)
diff --git a/app/workers/base.rb b/app/workers/base.rb
index 25ceadaa3..9165da7a9 100644
--- a/app/workers/base.rb
+++ b/app/workers/base.rb
@@ -21,7 +21,10 @@ module Workers
       Rails.logger.info("error on receive: #{e.class}")
     rescue ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid => e
       Rails.logger.info("failed to save received object: #{e.record.errors.full_messages}")
-      raise e unless e.message.match(/already been taken/)
+      raise e unless %w(
+        "already been taken"
+        "is ignored by the post author"
+      ).any? {|reason| e.message.include? reason }
     rescue ActiveRecord::RecordNotUnique => e
       Rails.logger.info("failed to save received object: #{e.message}")
       raise e unless %w(