I'm starting this thread because of the automated moderation that has been turned on about a month or two ago.
Is it ever going away? Is someone ever going to comment as to why it was put in place?
Seems to me it does more wrong then good.
ryan priddy Matthew Lorono and whoever else from SolidWorks could answer this.
Alex,
I think it has to do with the TTL. I believe they did the same thing last year around this time. I agree though, it is annoying. I don't mind myself being moderated every now and then, but they definitely need to add some exceptions for people like Deepak Gupta and a few others who never should be moderated...I can be a bit sarcastic and don't mind if they want to keep an eye on me..
That's what I find a bit absurd, people like Deepak Gupta, Alin Vargatu, Josh Brady, being moderated.
That and the randomness of the moderation.
Post something that doesn't get moderated. Modify it to fix a typo and get moderated? What?!
Matt, I really appreciate your thoughts. I hope they (SW forums moderators) are trying to put in their best or it's some kind of script that is being set up to do the moderation. I believe it would settle down soon and till then I'm OK if they keep me also in the moderation queue
This is definitely my favorite and makes almost zero sense. Because we all know that spammers post something to see if it sneaks thru moderation and then come back and make changes.
I have no problem being moderated if there is even a slight reason why. But it appears random. Or at the very least it has nothing to do with the content of the post being moderated.
Everything need to be censored before vote.
Deepak, can you write a macro to fix it?
damn... that was a great moderated reply!
I wish to..
Hey everyone, the "automated moderation" appears to be a bug in the settings here on the forums. I am working with the site IT to resolve the issue on our end. It is currently randomizing who gets flagged for moderation and sends posts to a queue for myself and the other moderators to approve (even moderator posts are flagged for moderation)... there is nothing automated about it and nothing we have created on our end to automate moderation (hence why it takes a couple of hours for posts to appear)
I will provide an update once it appears we have resolved the issue. Thanks, everyone for the feedback, I know it has been frustrating.
Funny thing is, this random bug happens randomly same time every year.
Its like someone turn it on randomly periodically.
..no,.. it's our pleasure.
Pleasure for over 2 months? Or 3?
Thanks ryan for answering
I kinda noticed this, too:
Fred,.. however long the pleasure lasted,.. and it lasted very long,.. I get the feeling the forum voyeurs have seen enuf,.. so,. we will most likely have to moderated in private... and, it's the right thing to do..
ryan priddy
Keep the moderation... I'd rather see that then SPAM or someone hacking my information for Phishing purposes..
To the rest - Putting our comment in moderation doesn't mean that it won't get posted, but you may be second inline for the correct answer??
It's more like the software gets a new release version. It installs with new defaults. Maybe they have to also update their Crusty Old Template File Gotcha just like we do.
This forum software ain't got no update anymore.
Probably forum admin was working from home and the dog changed all the settings.
3 months ago.
It could be worse. There is a social network in Vermont called Front Porch Forum which has a very different way to tone down potential arguments. Users can only make one post per day, as I understand it. You'd have to think things through like writing a letter, not a tweet. It's also much more difficult to carry on an argument over dozens of days.
Very long (TL,DR) story about it: How a Vermont social network became a model for online communities - The Verge
Excerpt:
Front Porch Forum structures its conversations differently than the likes of Facebook, Twitter, and Nextdoor, slowing the pace down to prompt users to think a bit more about what they’re saying before their community. There’s no news feed with rapid-fire updates to check every couple of minutes. You can fire off an angry reply to a neighbor over something they wrote — but it will show up a day later on the site. Wood-Lewis said that they’ve had more than one user write to the site directly, asking to retract a comment written in haste. It’s harder to get in a flame war when each exchange takes 24 hours to respond to, at least on the platform itself.
Anyone feel like being evict by a bad landlord?
True...especially since my last 4 correct answers weren't added to my tally.