Not seeing certain forum members
Hey y’all, has anyone had this problem? Certain forum members I cannot see their replies to any discussions. Sometimes I can see that theirs is the most recent reply, but I cannot find it when I cl...
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"Waqui;c-1678326" wrote:"Kyno;c-1677948" wrote:
When the spam filter picks up a post, or Mark's someone as a 'spam bot' (usually due to the double post issue we see sometimes) there posts are 'there' but they are not. They require a mod to go through and approve the post from the spam filter or remove them from the spam listing in the filter.
That's true, but when this happens, the poster gets a message, that his comment/post has to be reviewed first before appearing on the forum. Furthermore, in this case the post is not visible by the poster him/herself. My case was different as described above and hence not a simple case of frequent posting or editing of posts. For a few days all my posts were fully visible to myself and fully hidden from anybody else. Furthermore I had not received any message - neither pop-up or in my in-box. The administrator, who resolved the issue, didn't provide any information on the cause of this behaviour (not even after I asked). I therefore have no idea wether it was a technical issue, some sort of stealth punishment or something completely different.
They dont always get a message about posts being pulled (Not sure why) and they dont get any message if the system views them as a spam bot (that would defeat the purpose I would think).
Yes, what you are describing is the system marking you as a spam bot, and pulling posts. This is a web hosting "feature" that is just as overly sensetive as the filter. We catch some of them and fix it when we can but there is little way for us to know if someone has been flagged, because we can still see the posts as mods.
