What's with this 'awaiting approval' stuff?

[noisyturtle]

So recently whenever I post a thread I'm getting this 'awaiting approval' message. Is this because of all the recent flame threads of what? Is it me? Have I been flagged for some reason?

[calavera]

Happened to me too. Seems like they're screening every new thread. Takes about a day or two in my experience.

[hashbaz]

It's only in certain subforums, notably interest checks and group buys.

[mkawa]

it can also be the spam filter misclassifying you. the spam filter doesn't notify us where these posts are, so they can escape attention for a little while sometimes.

[IvanIvanovich]

Avoid putting more than one link or one picture for the first post to avoid getting stuck in said spam filter. If you need more then make an edit.

[The_Ed]

Why would everything with more than 1 link or picture be caught by the spam filter? Many interest check/groupbuy OPs have dozens...

[alaricljs]

It's not everything... it's voodoo

[IvanIvanovich]

I don't know what the exact criteria is, I only observed it is less likely to go into waiting approval if there isn't a bunch.

[samwisekoi]

This morning I had a new thread hit pending approval -- and I am an admin.  It did have a bunch of external links, however.

FYI, every mod and admin sees a message in the page header while anything needs attention, so you should get pretty quick resolution if the post is benign.

And, as far as I can tell, there are currently no flagged turtles, noisy or otherwise.

 - Ron | samwisekoi

[Jocelyn]

Just started a GB thread with no links and it still needs approval

All GB threads require approval.

Thank You

[alaricljs]

All GB threads require approval.

[TotalChaos]

it can also be the spam filter misclassifying you. the spam filter doesn't notify us where these posts are, so they can escape attention for a little while sometimes.

I had a msg that was "awaiting approval".  I waited patiently for around 5 days and finally just gave up.  I bet the lonely msg is still there, waiting for an approval that will never come.  Reminds me of when I was a kid and my parents would "forget" me and leave me at the mall or at church or in the woods and I would wait there forever until some stranger found me...

[rknize]

Hmmm...I don't see anything from you in the log.  Is it still there?  What subforum?

[TotalChaos]

Well howzabout that!  It eventually got approved at some point:
http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=41591.msg832059#msg832059

I guess it thought it was spam because I had a link in the msg.