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Title: What's up with the "awaiting approval" in the great finds section?
Post by: Voixdelion on Sat, 28 December 2013, 15:46:00

This is new to me.  Have I not earned some repute for being a non-spammer at this point?  ;P  SHEESH. 


What's to approve - its just a good sale price on a psu (and a ducky KB, a happy coincidence which I found on the same site while grabbing the link for the psu)

By the time someone gets around to approving it, they'll be out of stock!   

Suffice it to say, I don't get it. 

Title: Re: What's up with the "awaiting approval" in the great finds section?
Post by: tp4tissue on Sat, 28 December 2013, 15:47:57

Quote from: Voixdelion on Sat, 28 December 2013, 15:46:00

This is new to me.  Have I not earned some repute for being a non-spammer at this point?  ;P  SHEESH. 


What's to approve - its just a good sale price on a psu (and a ducky KB, a happy coincidence which I found on the same site while grabbing the link for the psu)

By the time someone gets around to approving it, they'll be out of stock!   

Suffice it to say, I don't get it. 

i didn't know there's an awaiting approval thing..

It must be cuz you tagged something in the post which flipped the trigger for spam detection.

Title: Re: What's up with the "awaiting approval" in the great finds section?
Post by: Zeal on Sat, 28 December 2013, 15:52:12

Sometimes threads get flagged by an auto-spam detection when there are certain "flagged" words in the URL.

Title: Re: What's up with the "awaiting approval" in the great finds section?
Post by: Voixdelion on Sat, 28 December 2013, 15:57:04

hmmm Interesting

 wonder what tripped it?   should I try reposting without a link?

Title: Re: What's up with the "awaiting approval" in the great finds section?
Post by: tp4tissue on Sat, 28 December 2013, 15:59:14

Quote from: Voixdelion on Sat, 28 December 2013, 15:57:04

hmmm Interesting

 wonder what tripped it?   should I try reposting without a link?

sure... what's the h0t tip

Title: Re: What's up with the "awaiting approval" in the great finds section?
Post by: Tym on Sat, 28 December 2013, 16:06:03

It would be something to do with the links, either too many or one which is suspicious.  I don't know exactly how it works, maybe the admins have to approve links which work automatically,  such as ebay etc.

Title: Re: What's up with the "awaiting approval" in the great finds section?
Post by: SpAmRaY on Sun, 29 December 2013, 14:05:09

PM a mod?

Title: Re: What's up with the "awaiting approval" in the great finds section?
Post by: Photoelectric on Sun, 29 December 2013, 14:27:20

Looks like it was approved earlier.  It is indeed external links that can trigger a filter, even if the links appear benign.

We can see threads / posts that need approval--they are linked in a special section.