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What the F is the deal with the settings on this forum?
scooterdawg
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From people getting banned or at least locked out from posting for no apparent reason to spending time writing out a post and then having it vanish into thin air with the accompanying pop up saying that your post is awaiting approval, something needs to be changed with the settings and/or software. If I had to guess the problem is related to the reminder sticky on “the rules”. I’m thinking that someone who didn’t know what they were doing messed with the post/moderation settings and the software is not playing along well.
If y’all want to have every post approved then you’re going to have to pay someone to do it because the software is just screwing everything up. And please let us know if that’s what the people who run the site want because I’ll go somewhere else. This is just **** currently and Savagedog17 shouldn’t have to spend his Saturday getting people able to post again.
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Been covered in numerous other posts. You're behind the curve.
I’ve seen the posts and even tried to get help for someone that was locked out. I haven’t seen an explanation as to why this is happening or if something is being fixed.
I’ve had enough posts just disappear to now copy them before I post. Yet when I go back and try to repost the same moderation approval message pops up and the post is never seen again. If all posts WERE being moderated it would be lame but at least you’d think that they wouldn’t just vanish into the ether without an explanation or warning.
Improvise, adapt, overcome. Or be patient until it gets worked out. I think this is one of those things that is out of my control so I won't fret about it. Also, I don't think it has happened to me...yet. Maybe that's why it's so easy for me to chill on this one.
It wouldn’t bother me other than that I hate spending ten minutes typing something and then it completely disappears.
Who actually is the “moderator” around here?
@SavageDawg17 was helping people out yesterday.
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Weird, I tried what someone else said on another thread... I can’t post if I’m on wi-fi, but if I turn wi-fi off I can post. This is getting annoying.
Reading the words, "improvise, adapt, overcome," I can't help but hear Clint Eastwood intone the words in the raspy growl of Gunney Sergeant Tom Highway.
My man. Especially in the opening scene in the jailhouse. Love it.
I agree. DN appears to be a pretty substantial organization. We have podcasts, videos, multiple professional contributors. The forum shouldn’t be this glitchy. I am not a web expert, but I am a regular on several other free forums and none are as glitchy as this one.
@SavageDawg17 is awesome- he bailed me out yesterday- but I agree with @scooterdawg's basic point. He shouldn't have had to spend all of his time resolving these issues. Also, folks shouldn't have to read threads daily or be "in the know" to know how to contact the moderator. There should be a simple link or button on the site to do that. Similarly, unless I'm missing something, there's no mechanism on the forum to contact the site admin. I would still really like to see the "sophmore" system-error fixed- if I were a Bama or OSU fan I would make endless fun of the hillbillies who run the UGA fan forum and don't know how to spell- but @SavageDawg17 said he didn't know how to fix it, so what am I supposed to do? Should I bother Griffith, Sentell or Towers about it? Of course not. Which is why I didn't hyperlink their names.
At the end of the day I subscribe to the same philosophy as @donm. Out of my control, not going to worry about it. But will hold out hope that these things get fixed one of these days.
I tried to put a post about it and called it the " post monster" eating posts. It got eaten up. Thought that was funny until I couldn't post anything. Then I thought I was put on restriction or something for calling it the post monster. LOL
That ridiculous nonsense greshamdisco posted actually works?
I saw that thread he made and started to say there’s no way that’s the problem. But then I decided better to just let the comment slide down the board so it doesn’t confuse people...
But you’re verifying the problem gresham reported?
Whether a user is using WiFi or cellular data should not matter to the HTTP protocol. I wonder if it’s a matter of changing your IP address? Like maybe the message board software has decided some of our home IP’s aren’t secure? And when you guys change your IP address (by turning off WiFi) it lets you post? SavageDawg’s fix is something about verifying our email addresses. Verifying our email address must erase the security concern about our IP address somehow. But I’m really guessing now.
And oh yeah, Teddy. Awhile back we were talking about losing posts to the “awaiting approval” message after editing them. I was in there saying that only happens when you edit a post that’s really long. Well, maybe two weeks after saying that, I started having the problem even on short posts, just like you were saying you have seen sometimes.