Post waiting for moderator approval?

[john9527]

I just had a couple of posts flagged for moderator approval. As a fairly long time forum user and frequent contributor , I'm wondering what triggered it?

 

[RogerSC]

Same thing happened to me. In fact, I was trying to reply to you, John, earlier today! Never happened before, and I've just about given up posting as a result. The post just sat there and waited for "moderator approval", so I deleted it. Given that I put a lot of thought (and time) into most of my postings, if they're not going to be posted, why waste time composing them?

 

[thiggins]

Relax guys, it's nothing personal.

Xenforo has much improved anti-spam features, but spammers were working around them. So I ramped it up.

Your posts are not deleted, just delayed.

I trimmed the keyword list a bit, but some of the words are commonly used by spammers in a different context.

 

[stevech]

The mail (sic) enhancement spam has reduced to almost zero of late. Is that an insult to me?

 

[RMerlin]

Relax guys, it's nothing personal.

Xenforo has much improved anti-spam features, but spammers were working around them. So I ramped it up.

Your posts are not deleted, just delayed.

I trimmed the keyword list a bit, but some of the words are commonly used by spammers in a different context.

I'm not familiar with Xenforo, but I find it surprising they don't allow you to have different antispam levels based on a user's rank/history. I had to release a few of my own posts, which I thought was a bit funny at the time

 

[RMerlin]

Same thing happened to me. In fact, I was trying to reply to you, John, earlier today! Never happened before, and I've just about given up posting as a result. The post just sat there and waited for "moderator approval", so I deleted it. Given that I put a lot of thought (and time) into most of my postings, if they're not going to be posted, why waste time composing them?

I can release moderated posts within the Asus sub-forums, in addition to Tim and any other forum moderator for the rest of the forums, so usually it shouldn't take that long for a post to be released by one of us.

 

[thiggins]

I have to release my own posts, too, when they contain banned keywords.

 

[System Error Message]

i suppose the price to pay for no spam is the increased labour for moderators to approve posts.

 

[thiggins]

It's not that big a load. Most of the recent spam is human generated. I think they have moved on to easier prey because the incidence has decreased.

 

[htismaqe]

I think trimming the keyword list made a noticeable difference in legit posts getting held up, at least it appears that way.

 

[htismaqe]

And of course, now I have a post awaiting moderation.

 

[stevech]

Yeah, the matching is too, too.

 

[Jonboy345]

I'm a new member and have made a "How To" post in the Asus AC Wireless subforum and everytime I make an edit it is marked as awaiting moderation and everyone who has the link from other sites and tried to access the post is unable to see it.

Is there anyway to permanently release a thread? If not, how can I prevent this from happening in the future?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Chrysalis]

if need more mods for this issue I can help but I wont be here every day.

 

[thiggins]

I'm a new member and have made a "How To" post in the Asus AC Wireless subforum and everytime I make an edit it is marked as awaiting moderation and everyone who has the link from other sites and tried to access the post is unable to see it.

Is there anyway to permanently release a thread? If not, how can I prevent this from happening in the future?

You're using one of the spam keywords. I can't mark threads to prevent anti-spam (it would defeat the purpose of anti-spam if I could).

I've removed the trigger word, but will restore it if spam gets by that uses it.

 

[BWR]

On one of the forums I administer, I set up temporary moderation like this: on registration a user is assigned a default usergroup which has its posts moderated; when the user's account is older than X days and he has more than Y approved posts, he's automatically moved to another usergroup which can post directly to the forums. This is on vBulletin, no idea how/if it can be done on Xenforo.

 

[Jonboy345]

You're using one of the spam keywords. I can't mark threads to prevent anti-spam (it would defeat the purpose of anti-spam if I could).

I've removed the trigger word, but will restore it if spam gets by that uses it.

Great, thank you very much.

Don't worry. You won't get any spam from me.

 

[RMerlin]

On one of the forums I administer, I set up temporary moderation like this: on registration a user is assigned a default usergroup which has its posts moderated; when the user's account is older than X days and he has more than Y approved posts, he's automatically moved to another usergroup which can post directly to the forums. This is on vBulletin, no idea how/if it can be done on Xenforo.

Sadly it doesn't seem possible with Xenforo, as even Tim and I get our own posts moderated.

 

[BWR]

Looks like Xenforo supports automated user promotions as well: https://xenforo.com/help/user-group-promotions/
Your posts might be moderated by some other independent anti-spam system, Tim was saying something about some banned keywords.

 

[htismaqe]

@thiggins,

I had to edit a private message this morning because it contained a banned word.

The word was P-R-E-S-S-U-R-E. Any reason that word would be banned?