Kindly delete my account
 

Good evening

I just made this account today and I was happy to be part of this community. I was also pleased that my comments were visible to the public immediately. However, few moments ago I tried to post a comment on the forums and I was shocked to see an automated response, a response such as "your comment will be visible after a moderator approves it!"

What violations did I commit to be treated in such a way? I really feel disappointed by this action, especially when no prior warnings have been sent to me....

It's most likely not anything about you personally, if the one that you got the automated message on contained a link of some sort, that requires moderator approval before being posted. There might be other triggers as well, but that's the most common one, I believe.

Thank you for participating in this thread, however, the thread which I tried to post on did not contain any links. Here is a link to the thread which required a moderator's approval prior to having my comment visible to the public:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/emira...-emirates.html

It just makes no sense that I was able to post this thread without a moderator's approval, but on that thread I needed a moderator's approval.....

Did you have some hyperlinks in your earlier posts? This thread should explain it in full:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/techn...esnt-show.html

So you now have 2 accounts with FT? FWIW, FlyerTalk Rules state:

You're post contained a link to your Emirates trip report on airliners.net

Thank you guys for clarifying things for me. I appreciate your help & support, as I'm still a newbie around here :) .

However, in response to lin821, i do not have multiple accounts in this forums. I just have this account (1 account.)

The issue is with your post, not the thread the OP started. Your post did have a hyperlink.

That's good!

Your post did give us the impression that you had an account a few months ago when you "tried to post a comment few months ago", that wouldn't be possible if you "just made this account today":

Glad to know you found your answer now. Still want the admin to "kindly delete my account?" ;)

lin821, it looks like you might be mis-reading the post. OP said a few moments ago, not months ago. It even says that in what you quoted.

You are so right!! I can't believe I didn't catch it when reading that sentence at least 4 times! I don't know what I was thinking. :o

I need a new pair of glasses!!

Umm, let me think about it :D

Welcome to FlyerTalk; we're sorry your membership began with a bit of misunderstanding and inconvenience.

ALL newly signed up members have posts sent to a moderation queue if the posts contain web or image links or certain key words. Whilst this is a bit of bother to new members, the post is usually inspected and dealt with speedily, but as explained previously, moderators are selected and supported (with training and mentoring) volunteers with their own busy work, travel, family lives - occasionally, that can create disruptions.

The reason this occurs is that FlyerTalk, as any bulletin board, gets many attempts to spam members with everything from pornography to scams and purely commercial posts, or even embedded tracking artifacts. These can be much more disruptive, so in the balance of things the automated spam controls cause a few to have uncomfortable delays in early posts.

We're glad the issue has been resolved to your apparent satisfaction.

JDiver
Senior Moderator

Forum post removed, twice!
 

Hi,

I posted a post in this thread: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/sixt/...tions-143.html

but it was (for unknown reason) removed. Thinking it might be an mistake on my part or a bug in the forum software I posted the same post again. But shortly after it was gone again.

Any idea what might be the issue? I have no private message from a moderator, nor can I see any trace of moderator invention in the thread.

Hello,

Since you are a new user, your post has been considered into moderation. Your posts will be approved accordingly.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Welcome to FlyerTalk.

Your post went into the moderation queue for being a very early post with inclusions. That post has been looked over and approved by a Moderator; the second post also went into the queue, but was deleted as a duplicate.

We'll merge this into the existing thread on this topic.

JDiver
Senior Moderator

Post will not be visible until a moderator has approved it...for an Evangelist?
 

I just tried to make an ordinary short post to an existing thread in the DL forum: several sentences, no bad words, no images or links, no smilies or icons. When I hit Post Quick Reply, I got a message in the lower left corner saying something like "Your post will not be visible until a moderator has approved it for posting....." and indeed the post did not appear when I refreshed the thread.

Is this some new glitch? It's been a long time since I was a newbie around here. BTW, I haven't made any changes to my profile or otherwise changed my behavior on FT. Many hours ago I started a totally appropriate new thread in the DL forum, but I've made other posts since then without any problems.

ADDED: This one obviously posted fine, in fact with no problems on the first attempt.

ADDED AGAIN: I think the post was in the "Delta Airlines 50% MQM Bonus" thread that's received at least a half dozen posts today. Now I see the post there and if there was a moderator in the DL forum, the moderator seems to be gone now. Maybe it's a false alarm, but I did see the "moderator must approve......." popup gray oblong window with the post not appearing.