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Why after 5 months on this forum or so are my posts still have to be approved to be seen ?

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Why after 5 months on this forum or so are my posts still have to be approved to be seen ?
Posted by CandOforprogress2 on Monday, August 22, 2016 9:37 AM

usualy this takes a couple of weeks to have the leash off.

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Posted by dakotafred on Monday, August 22, 2016 8:08 PM

C&O, you deserve a better answer to this than you are likely to get.

I think you are suspected of being one who has posted on here under many previous names and has always ended kicked off for "abuse."

Your name is supposed to be Raymond and you're supposed to be -- well, beyond the pale. This per some of our tried and true posters who themselves, in my opinion, have been guilty of violations of, ahem, decorum.

Only you know if this is a bum rap or a true one. Me, I'm not an insider around here and am always ready to give a new name the benefit of the doubt. I don't think you've done anything as C&O to merit special treatment ... but, then, maybe the moderators know something I don't.

I'm not naive, and allow the strong possibility you know very well what the problem is.

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Posted by samfp1943 on Monday, August 22, 2016 8:17 PM

dakotafred

C&O, you deserve a better answer to this than you are likely to get.

I think you are suspected of being one who has posted on here under many previous names and has always ended kicked off for "abuse."

Your name is supposed to be Raymond and you're supposed to be -- well, beyond the pale. This per some of our tried and true posters who themselves, in my opinion, have been guilty of violations of, ahem, decorum.

Only you know if this is a bum rap or a true one. Me, I'm not an insider around here and am always ready to give a new name the benefit of the doubt. I don't think you've done anything as C&O to merit special treatment ... but, then, maybe the moderators know something I don't.

"I'm not naive, and allow the strong possibility you know very well what the problem is."

 

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Posted by NorthWest on Monday, August 22, 2016 8:47 PM

CandOforprogress2
usualy this takes a couple of weeks to have the leash off.

It's the 'usually' that's the problem. This keeps happening over and over again.

It's also interesting that the mods let this thread exist if they are monitoring the posts.

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Posted by Ulrich on Monday, August 22, 2016 8:53 PM

Likely you pissed them off at some point so your posts are scrutinized. 

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Posted by D.Carleton on Monday, August 22, 2016 9:11 PM

Welcome to the world of double-secret-probation.

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Posted by zugmann on Monday, August 22, 2016 10:58 PM

CandOforprogress2

usualy this takes a couple of weeks to have the leash off.

 

And how many times have you tested this theory?

 

Yeah.  Dots - Sign

It's been fun.  But it isn't much fun anymore.   Signing off for now. 


  

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Posted by CMStPnP on Tuesday, August 23, 2016 1:51 AM

It's a Moderator setting on Forum software for a Moderator to review posts before they are published to the public.    Usually you get on the Moderated list by violating the Terms of Service of the Forums.     Sometimes Moderators forget to remove you from the moderation list just like sometimes they forget to unsuspend people.    If you feel that is the case you should send a reminder or call customer service.   Usually there are Moderator notes on your account on what you did to deserve the special treatment and when it should expire that can be read with the proper access.

Anyways, thats how it worked on a website I used to Moderate for a long time ago.

Moderating was kind of fun, you can figure out sometimes who is posing as someone they are not, who is lying about something because of the special access you have to restricted info.    You have all sorts of informants (people that snitch on others) and people that try to brown nose.    I used to moderate a military forum and my personal favorite was the Special Forces folks during the GWOT.    Their location is supposed to be secret to the rest of the world and they would use Sat Phones sometimes to connect to the Internet (against the regs but they would ignore them because they were bored) which would of course pinpoint them on Google maps via TCP/IP address......too funny.    I would private message them and say "I can see you"....lol.   They were always really polite about it and had the Army sense of humor I miss sometimes.

Hopefully the Pentagon has fixed that issue by now with Sat Phones.   A lot of this stuff you have to keep to yourself as moderator though and sometimes that sucks........especially when you know someone is lying to you but because someone else told you in confidence or you found out via their registration info or TCP/IP address........can't make it public info.........or the Company will take action against you for a Privacy violation.     So thats a part of moderating that sucks.

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Posted by CandOforprogress2 on Tuesday, August 23, 2016 9:53 AM

Time for me to pay up. As in get a paid personal subsroption and now I have a Apple I-Pad. Then I would have every right to go the Kalmbach in Waukesha to share my concerns over a pot of hard boiled office coffee as well as get a free tour.

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Posted by samfp1943 on Thursday, August 25, 2016 11:12 AM

CandOforprogress2

Time for me to pay up. As in get a paid personal subsroption and now I have a Apple I-Pad. Then I would have every right to go the Kalmbach in Waukesha to share my concerns over a pot of hard boiled office coffee as well as get a free tour.

 

The big question might be: " Can you get past 'Office Security'?'Hmm

 

 


 

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Posted by CMStPnP on Thursday, August 25, 2016 6:04 PM

samfp1943
The big question might be: " Can you get past 'Office Security'?'

There isn't any....lol.    You walk right in to an ordering counter where you can order past issues or other Kalmbach magazines and behind the counter are the grey office cubes where the Trains folks work.   I think they take turns manning the counter.

At least that was the setup they used to have.

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