Published on 12, July, 2020
I've noticed on the forum people are becoming concerned about posts being reported, removed, moderated etc.
I've personally experienced a couple of weeks of this and then the whole weekend being unable to post and then a pop up saying that ALL my posts were being moderated.
After the weekend I was told by the mods that this is a technical issue with an 'oversensitive spam filter'.
If you receive these notices, I suggest you reply, as, as far as I know, our posts aren't automatically reinstated without our appeal.
Obviously some posts could be reported for 'abuse' but if you have posted something uncontroversial and it has been removed, it's likely to be this technical error.
Just bumping this.
I've started several threads on this subject over the 2 years I've been here but it's still happening and people are still being disturbed by it.
There seem to be several ways in which the spam filter (it was Akismet) can throw our posts out, including, but not limited to.
a. Quoting from a post more than once.
b. Adding more than one attachment.
c. Adding text from somewhere else.
Unfortunately, we then get an error message saying that we have been reported which we haven't so that's a major stressor for people who have never experienced this before.
I assumed it was because of the fiery debates that were going on. People were getting vexed and flagging each other.
I had a totally innocuous post "reported" as spam or abuse. I assumed someone had just inadvertently clicked on the wrong button. It was reinstated on appeal, not that I cared in that instance, as it was trivial.Since then I've reported one of my own posts as spam, as I wasn't allowed to delete it. I hoped that might be a way of removing it. I don't think it worked.