Last night I attempted to reply to a post in the Mises Institute vs. Cato Institute thread and received a message that my post needed to be approved. I am not a new member but it may have something to do with the fact that I reformatted my computer??? Perhaps I was recognized as a new user? In any case the post has not yet been approved. If there is a reason it has not yet been approved I would appreciate knowing it. It if is just because of my computer being reformatted that is one thing. I hope there is not another reason.
Thanks,
Ryanpatgray
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Can we please call a moritorium on conspiracy theories about unapproved posts? This is nearly always--like 99.99% of the time--a software issue. Tons of spam floats around the web, and there is no way admins can personally deal with it all. We have to rely on spam checks, and these are not perfect. Please be patient with the system. By the way, this is true of the main blog too. Every few days I receive a flaming email from somehow whose post was tagged as spam. This is completely unnecessary.
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I think the post in question got held up because it had so many links in it.
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jtucker: Can we please call a moritorium on conspiracy theories about unapproved posts? This is nearly always--like 99.99% of the time--a software issue. Tons of spam floats around the web, and there is no way admins can personally deal with it all. We have to rely on spam checks, and these are not perfect. Please be patient with the system. By the way, this is true of the main blog too. Every few days I receive a flaming email from somehow whose post was tagged as spam. This is completely unnecessary.
I had no conspiracy theory. I was asking. In fact, I gave a possible plausible explanation. I reformatted my computer. The post has now been aproved.
Thank you,
Ryan
Ok, I'm sorry for getting carried away with the rhetoric.
Juan:Since users need to register before posting, can the filtering done at that level ? If only legitimate users join the forum, then no filtering of individual messages is needed ?
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The thing to remember about computers is that they do what they are told to do and what they are told to do may not be what you want it to do.
A busy database will put transactions into a queue if they cannot be handled right away. So posts by other users, blog updates, spamming attempts and other actions will count as a transaction. If a transaction is put into a queue the database will give a message to that effect and this bit of software converted that message into a notice about a post needing to be moderated, since that is likely the only message it had available to use.
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No, because spammers also join the forum sometimes.
Juan:I don't think that a spammer would join the forum, discuss some economics for a while, and then start spamming ?
I run a travel forum and have since 2004...and you would be amazed at the tenacity of some spammers. Most are just spam-bots that sell the two P's. Some start out generating a random topic and sell nothing. Sometimes that topic hits on something appropriate to the forum and is left alone or even answered by yet another spam-bot...then one month later you wake up and "blammo" your forum is filled with spam from a previous user.
Some also crawl the user names and try to guess simple passwords to make a previous legitimate account become a spamming account. These are rare though but the annoyance they cause when they get through is enough to justify precautions.
HeroicLife: Juan:Since users need to register before posting, can the filtering done at that level ? If only legitimate users join the forum, then no filtering of individual messages is needed ? No, because spammers also join the forum sometimes.
So use a quality captcha, like recaptcha, to block out spambots at registration time, and have a few moderators plus a posting delay (5-30 seconds between each post, depending on how new the poster is to the board, should work) to handle anyone who tries to post spam manually. If some spam gets through and a mod doesn't catch it, anyone who comes across it can use the "report abuse" link for the post to report it.
EDIT: Am I alone in finding it ironic that a guilty until proven innocent approach is used here?
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Well, I've not been asked to join. The application, I believe, consists in writing a few editorials for the New York Times that take a social-democratic perspective.
Rich333: HeroicLife: Juan:Since users need to register before posting, can the filtering done at that level ? If only legitimate users join the forum, then no filtering of individual messages is needed ? No, because spammers also join the forum sometimes. So use a quality captcha, like recaptcha, to block out spambots at registration time, and have a few moderators plus a posting delay (5-30 seconds between each post, depending on how new the poster is to the board, should work) to handle anyone who tries to post spam manually. If some spam gets through and a mod doesn't catch it, anyone who comes across it can use the "report abuse" link for the post to report it. EDIT: Am I alone in finding it ironic that a guilty until proven innocent approach is used here?
Bots are increasingly able to solve CAPTCHAs, and it's best to verify valid posts than to risk having the forum littered with v14gr4 4 ch33p posts.
Don't allow leftists to play games with definitions! Some of the libertarian-leaning leftists at this forum will try to redefine "left-wing" back to its original defition (Third Estate, limited government, free-markets, laissez-faire reforms, etc.). Fine! We non-leftists can't stop them from using their own personal definitions; they can use whatever labels they want to describe any concept they want.However, they have the audacity to then use their personal definition of "left-wing" (remember, the original definition, which is no longer valid) to prove that modern leftists are more libertarian than modern rightists! They will say that libertarianism is "inherently leftist" (again, using the original, no longer valid definition), and use that to insist that we should prefer and side with modern leftists over modern rightists.
Question their motives.
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