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Are all posts being moderated at the moment?

Pixiefox

I started a thread earlier today and had to edit it twice, as I saw a couple of typos and I like my posts to be correct in terms of spelling and punctuation. After the second edit I got a message that it would appear after being moderated. Since then I have replied to a couple of other posts and both times when I clicked to reply I got the message that all replies are being moderated.

So I'm wondering - is it just my posts & replies being moderated at the moment, or everybody's? Did I do something wrong? (I have clicked on "report as abuse" by mistake in the past when trying to edit a post - why there is that option for your own post, I really cannot imagine)

If this post is being moderated by a human rather than a bot, please would whoever is moderating send me a quick reply to let me know what is going on - thank you.

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  • Pixiefox,

    Before the "great reset" on this forum, we had deduced (amongst ourselves) that if someone edited one of their own posts more than twice (after originally posting it), then this caused them to be automatically put into moderation, thus rendering them unable to post for a while......until a human moderator found time to check that this was the problem and reset you back to normality.

    The people (presumably both paid and volunteer) who are responsible for the lead up, implementation and now fire-fighting phase of this great reset on the forum, do not share my definition of what constitutes a "reasonable level of communication" with us, the members.

    This "great reset" has been, and continues to be a shambles (which I neither consider unexpected nor particularly shameful due to the nature of the beast at hand) BUT, THE LACK OF COMMUNICATION WITH US ABOUT WHAT IS GOING ON / CLEAR INFORMATIVES / CLEAR INSTRUCTIONS is hard to understand and not acceptable in my opinion.

    Bear with it Pixie.....all things find their status quo eventually.

  • in reply to Number

    I understand, I think...

    It would be nice to have a set of 'actual triggers' along side of the forum rules - of known bugs and unchangeable 'features'

    Your example is a good one...

    Editing your own post several times (exact amount unknown) quickly will result in accidently being placed in pre-moderation - please contact the community manager to get this reset

    I agree that the usual PR (Public Relations) type responses are not helpful to our brains and way of thinking. They may work for a water provider who has messed up all the rivers on Question Time, but we need specifics and truths.

    (again, I'm not knocking the actual mods)

  • in reply to SpikeyMark

    Mark - allow me to be crystal clear.

    I am not casting aspersions on any individual nor any organisation.  I have no knowledge to allow this.

    But, I do have knowledge of what I see, what I hear and what I experience.

    Accordingly;

    I am CALLING OUT the rather poor delivery and implementation of this 'new forum' process - and based on what I can see here at the moment, perhaps think we were "oversold" what we might expect of the result.

    More importantly.........

    I am SHOUTING OUT about the UNACCEPTABLY APPALLING COMMUNICATION  WITH US, THE MEMBERS during this "roll-out of the 'new forum'" and I struggle to understand why this seems to remain the case.  Our members are being lost and anxiety is being caused.

    If someone tells another person to "just email the community manager," then I think I will scream !!  To what end?

  • in reply to Debbie

    Good point.......and I have a similar thing that I learned the other day that I think you might like (as a break from all this tedious bureaucracy and mediocrity about the "communications" in this place);

    Birds have backward facing "knees" - although these are actually their heels - because birds actually walk on their tip-toe.  Their actual "knees" are tucked up, out of sight, by their bellies and do face forwards like human ones.*

    * - For all pedants, I know that this rule only applies for circa 98% of all birds, I do believe there are a few exceptions, but I can't remember any of them off-hand/off-paw/off-toe. 

  • in reply to Number
    Number said:
    unless I have a mouse and a VERY steady hand

    Mice don't have hands - they have paws.

    Mouse

  • in reply to SpikeyMark

    - Personally, I have given up trying to look at "votes" unless I have a mouse and a VERY steady hand.......it is impossible to safely look otherwise.

  • in reply to Iain

    Well, I for one, contribute to NAS, as I know many others here, also do.

    I'm not out "pitchfork waving," I am asking for some simple communication with the membership that is meaningful in its particulars.

  • in reply to out_of_time
    out_of_time said:
    Sorry I think my sausage fingers down voted you by accident.

    I did that myself once, and was horrified to see that I remained in the list despite correcting my mistake!

  • in reply to Number
    Number said:
    I reiterate again.........it is the LACK OF COMMUNICATION that I am finding unacceptable at this point in time.

    it is a little dissapointing to say the least but we do have to keep in mind that this is not a service we pay for and we have no expectation of a quality of service.

    NAS are a charity and from the way the upgrade has gone, one who are not blessed with very good management or much in the way of staff to interact with out pitchfork waving.

    What we get it pretty decent for a freebie.

  • in reply to out_of_time

    There is a time to "pull back the veil"......if that were to be the case.......OR....... someone could just find the (not unreasonable) time, just to keep us updated and informed?

  • in reply to Sparkly-Temporary Account

    And if we were told / informed / advised or otherwise communicated with, to that effect, then I am VERY confident that we would all be far less anxious, irritated and confused by WTAF is going on at the moment, "behind the scenes."

    I reiterate again.........it is the LACK OF COMMUNICATION that I am finding unacceptable at this point in time.

  • in reply to SpikeyMark

    You are a very nice man.  I like that.  I am hard-wired the same way......but I also know that there is a time to make our voices heard too.

    The concern that you posit, is the same as when I see a weaker human being bullied or neglected or abused by a stronger human (or human in a higher position of authority).....one doesn't wish to intervene for fear of making matters worse for the weaker human.......it's a judgement call.

    The NAS without a forum (no wait, sorry, NEW forum [that would have taken some cash investment]) is not a realistic concern at this moment in time.  However, the risk of members here leaving or drifting away is a VERY VERY real concern.

  • in reply to SpikeyMark
    SpikeyMark said:
    that ever happened to this forum I would be devastated

    And that's putting it mildly.

    Sorry I think my sausage fingers down voted you by accident.

    I wonder if whoever did the changeover has pulled the wool over NAS' eyes, and the only way "the powers that be" will know prospective changes HAVEN'T  been made, or errors still exist is if we tell them.

    Just my two penneth. 

  • in reply to Sparkly-Temporary Account
    Sparkly-Temporary Account said:
    I recall that in one of the pre-upgrade announcements, we had been told that many of the things we had requested in the survey would be implemented. Although some changes have been made, it's not to the extent that I feel had been implied.

    In my thread I resurrected earlier, I've linked to that.

    As far as I can see, nothing whatsoever has been done (or  maybe one thing).

  • in reply to Number
    Number said:
    perhaps think we were "oversold" what we might expect of the result.

    I've actually been having similar thoughts Number.

    I recall that in one of the pre-upgrade announcements, we had been told that many of the things we had requested in the survey would be implemented. Although some changes have been made, it's not to the extent that I feel had been implied.

    This is pure speculation on my part, but I find myself wondering if something catastrophic had happened, which meant some of the planned changes suddenly had to be aborted.

  • in reply to SpikeyMark
    SpikeyMark said:
    Possibly Debbie?

    Yes, it was me.

    The Shutterstock forum was closed down because they couldn't be arsed to monitor it and remove spam.

  • in reply to Number

    Also it may be worth pointing out again what someone else said in another post (I can't remember who, sorry. Possibly Debbie?)

    Sometimes decision makers can just throw their arms up and say 'this isn't worth the hassle anymore', and just decide to stop a resource (for example, a free forum). I want to keep up the encouragement alongside the criticism, because if that ever happened to this forum I would be devastated (alongside almost everyone else here)

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  • in reply to Number

    Also it may be worth pointing out again what someone else said in another post (I can't remember who, sorry. Possibly Debbie?)

    Sometimes decision makers can just throw their arms up and say 'this isn't worth the hassle anymore', and just decide to stop a resource (for example, a free forum). I want to keep up the encouragement alongside the criticism, because if that ever happened to this forum I would be devastated (alongside almost everyone else here)

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