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Artmuzz

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I have been trying to reply to a post but every time I reply I get a message telling me that the post will have to go through moderation before it is approved. Two weeks later my post still isn't approved. What is happening? This never happened before. Is this new rules? :mad:

This is the message I get when i try to reply to a post.

"Artmuzz
Thank you for posting! Your post will not be visible until a moderator has approved it for posting."
 
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Jesse Hollington

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Sorry about that... I've approved your previous post -- I can only assume that it got missed in the midst of all of the spam that otherwise gets dropped into the moderation queue.

This is a restriction which applies only to new users -- those with fewer than 10 posts -- in order to control the amount of spam we receive. Basically, the anti-spam system looks more closely at new users and is more likely to moderate a post that it deems to be spam so that a mod/admin can deal with it later.

Sadly, the proportion of posts that we get in the queue that are spam greatly overwhelms the few legitimate ones that occasionally get caught by mistake.
 
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