post approval ?

I don’t get how this works… sometimes posts requires approval, sometimes not… why ?

For the older (time here) posters, there is a bug in the Forum software that sometimes pops up, for the newer posters (less than about 50 posts) they get moderated a bit as an anti spam measure.

I think I have it figured out to a few words that’s triggering the mod filters. I’ve been stopping by regularly to approve them so you don’t have to report the same message 7 times like some users.

thank you both for your answers :slight_smile:

so it would be a few words triggering this approval… could you tell us witch ones please Steveo ? This thing is a bit annoying :confused:

btw, i have still a message to be approved in the men pheromone section, i posted like 6h ago… could you please check it ?

Try keeping your posts short…like 4-5 lines until you get to 50 posts. it was annoying for me too, but i noticed that my short posts got through. The long ones were blocked every time.

Also, creating a thread gets blocked much more, if not always, than regular posts.

I think one of the target words was “steveo” A sure indicator of flame or spam… He’s such a stinker. That’s why he was told to get BANned.

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Yup I am banned and yet I have total control. Who would have figured on that one when I signed up back in January?

lol Steveo :smiley: but you might wanna change that, it’s a bit confusing for a staff member to have BANNED as a title. I fisrt tought you did some bad things and got banned :stuck_out_tongue:

And I still understand nothing about this post approval system, it seems to pick out randomly some of my post for approval

Perhaps he’s naughty like me..hehe I should write banned too :slight_smile:

It happens for me too. But that’s fine since we’re technically newcomers (few posts, recently joined).

This system is amazing and should be adopted my most of bulletin-boards/forums to prevent spamming as well as blocking specific phrases by the use of filters like linking websites and so forth until a particular post number is acquired (which almost always is due to advertising).

However, the only downside of this security feature is that it is time consuming especially for moderators/admins.

Yepp, I found it extremely annoying, too. Now that I’m a good way over 50 posts it only happens to me in the ‘Store Announcement and Feedback’ forum…

There are certain words that the system auto moderates. I know everyone keeps asking me what those are but I am not allowed to release them. They are moderated for a reason.

On the other hand users that are trusted with less than 50 posts I have been going in and manually bringing them up to fifty so they don’t get moderated.

It’s all about SPAM bots.

Oh yeah, who says I’m not banned and just a really good hacker, and very helpful?

Bump for the newbies :smiley: