Hi,

Sorry for the trouble. Certain new posts are sent to moderation queues for approval. If those are edited, they go back to the queue.

Please read the wiki post and information in http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/techn...w-missing.html, then reply and we can see what the next step is.

JDiver, Moderator

Thanks JDiver for directing me toward this thread. It may be that my most recent post contains a link that was provided by another poster. Perhaps if I can remove that link my post can be expedited?

I believe I also pasted the usernames of posters into the quotes (unfortunately forgot the multiquote function) which turned into URLs...

If there is anything I can do to help push this forward a bit more quickly, feel free to let me know! Thank you.

Hi JDiver,

I read and replied to the thread that you had posted... My post that I'm waiting on has been in queue for over 5 hours now... is there an issue that needs to be resolved? Forgive me, it is a little bit frustrating considering it is regarding a bit of a time-sensitive issue.

The post should be #24 in this thread but I have made a shorter, subsequent post following it.

Thank you!

I see the Aer Lingus | AerClub forum has one Moderator, starflyergold, who is based in Brussels - so perhaps there's a time zone issue. (Not to mention, Moderators are volunteers, most with jobs, family life and travel plans.) Sometimes there is a time lag for any of those things, but it allows FlyerTalk to be a genuine online community.

There are several ways to communicate with starflyergold:

Use Private Messaging from MyFlyerTalk or

use the Moderator contact radio button / widget at the sude of each post. In yours below, it's the http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/image...ons/report.gif. This will bring a pop up message box that will send your report to all the forum's assigned Moderators (or in this case, the assigned Mod, or all the Senior Moderators if there's no assigned forum Moderators).

I see you edited your first post in that thread - that might have put it back in the queue. I also see starflyergold deleted an empty post (would have been post #4 ). What would be #25 , at 00:53 in BRU may not get looked at until daytime Brussels time.

It's frustrating - I apologize for the frustrations - but we've found these hoops and hurdles for newly signed up members has reduced quite a bit of our spam (and we get a lot of it - you generally don't see it because we're pretty responsive and have tools in place). You're close to the point your posts won't be autohandled when they contain URL links or links to graphics and other files as "new member" posts; that's good news.

wonder if there would be an easy way to show the list >

Posts from new members likely to end up in a moderation queue:
. . . • Posts containing a URL / web link
. . . • Posts containing a graphic image or IMG link
. . . • Posts containing certain key words
. . . • Posts quoting a post containing a web or image link
. . . • Posts quoting other posts with links
. . . • An approved post with link that gets edited

during new member registration process or as part of confirmation email above link

That is listed in the Wikipost for this thread. Are you recommending it be added elsewhere?

New to this forum.
Is there a way to find out what happened to my post: pending review or rejected?

I posted, it said it would need to be reviewed.
Now, there is no record as far as I can see that I submitted anything. It seems I have no way of knowing if it's rejected or still in approval process. Or is there?

i said >
"during new member registration process or as part of confirmation email"

like here >
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/register.php
is Rules link there working?
is this topic in Rules?

is there a way to tell new members

after confirmation email, is there a 'welcome' etc email?

Rostropowich Welcome to FT
Moderator are volunteers and will get to your post. They also may be in a different time zone and/or working, travelling & family life etc

Awaiting moderator approval
 

I posted a reply to my topic in the NYC forum (can't link to it as I don't have 5 posts) a few days ago and it came up with a message saying my post was awaiting approval from a moderator. It still hasn't appeared in the topic yet. Is this normal?

Thanks

Welcome to Flyertalk. All of our moderators are volunteers, and it's possible that the NYC forum moderators have been caught up in life or that your post was overlooked in the moderation queue.

I see that you've posted twice in this thread. Presuming it's another post that hasn't appeared, you can send a direct message to the forum moderator dstan to inquire about it.

Thanks for the reply! Wasn't sure if I messed something up or if it was normal so just wanted to double check. There's a third post in that topic that I submitted but there's no rush so happy to wait for it to be approved normally.

Moving to our Tech Support forum.

chgoeditor
co-moderator, Info Desk

I also made 2 posts today, one in the ANA forum and one in the Alaska forum and both said they were pending even tho they did not have any image or a link and its been over 12 hours and still not approved. I'd appreciate if someone could look into it.