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Site Announcements and Feedback => Announcements/Feedback/Suggestions => Topic started by: noisyturtle on Mon, 04 March 2013, 16:40:23
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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?
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Happened to me too. Seems like they're screening every new thread. Takes about a day or two in my experience.
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It's only in certain subforums, notably interest checks and group buys.
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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.
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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.
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Why would everything with more than 1 link or picture be caught by the spam filter? Many interest check/groupbuy OPs have dozens...
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It's not everything... it's voodoo
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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.
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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
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Just started a GB thread with no links and it still needs approval :(
All GB threads require approval.
Thank You :)
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All GB threads require approval.
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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...
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Hmmm...I don't see anything from you in the log. Is it still there? What subforum?
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Well howzabout that! It eventually got approved at some point:
http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=41591.msg832059#msg832059 (http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=41591.msg832059#msg832059)
I guess it thought it was spam because I had a link in the msg.