Lindal Kidd Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 And not in a good way. I just posted a reply in the Answers Forum and received a Notice: "Your response must be approved by a moderator", and my reply was flagged as "Hidden". I surmise from this that one or more of my recent posts has been judged to be too...harsh? Critical? Not-nice?...and that my submissions are being monitored. Either that or their Censorship Engine has got an awfully sensitive set of triggers. I guess I will be joining Phil Deakins's "Proud To Be Suspended Club" soon. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rowan Amore Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 1 minute ago, Lindal Kidd said: And not in a good way. I just posted a reply in the Answers Forum and received a Notice: "Your response must be approved by a moderator", and my reply was flagged as "Hidden". I surmise from this that one or more of my recent posts has been judged to be too...harsh? Critical? Not-nice?...and that my submissions are being monitored. Either that or their Censorship Engine has got an awfully sensitive set of triggers. I guess I will be joining Phil Deakins's "Proud To Be Suspended Club" soon. I've had that happen, as have others, for no specific reason. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madelaine McMasters Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 It's happened to me, too. I think it's a forum software glitch. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleMe Jewell Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 12 minutes ago, Lindal Kidd said: And not in a good way. I just posted a reply in the Answers Forum and received a Notice: "Your response must be approved by a moderator", and my reply was flagged as "Hidden". I surmise from this that one or more of my recent posts has been judged to be too...harsh? Critical? Not-nice?...and that my submissions are being monitored. Either that or their Censorship Engine has got an awfully sensitive set of triggers. I guess I will be joining Phil Deakins's "Proud To Be Suspended Club" soon. We bid you welcome to the latest Forum Elite club 3 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Mistwalker Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 20 minutes ago, Lindal Kidd said: And not in a good way. I just posted a reply in the Answers Forum and received a Notice: "Your response must be approved by a moderator", and my reply was flagged as "Hidden". I surmise from this that one or more of my recent posts has been judged to be too...harsh? Critical? Not-nice?...and that my submissions are being monitored. Either that or their Censorship Engine has got an awfully sensitive set of triggers. I guess I will be joining Phil Deakins's "Proud To Be Suspended Club" soon. Certain words can set that feature off. I've had it happen and when I exchanged those words for another way of conveying my thoughts, it went through. It's not you. It's whoever enabled that feature that really has no clue what they are doing with it or how it works. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rowan Amore Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Mistwalker Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 35 minutes ago, Rowan Amore said: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moles Quartz Mole Posted March 20, 2022 Moles Share Posted March 20, 2022 1 hour ago, Rowan Amore said: I've had that happen, as have others, for no specific reason. No, the automatic flagging system objected to something in your post, though heaven alone knows what. It does that sometimes for reasons no one understands. Anyway, I've unhidden it. 5 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orwar Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 52 minutes ago, Quartz Mole said: No, the automatic flagging system objected to something in your post, though heaven alone knows what. You're not telling us you gave that thing a will of its own? Quartz, this is exactly the kind of precursor to the AI revolution that films like Terminator warned us of, and in this day and age we are all too well familiar with the malicious purpose of cyber warfare against our lines of communication! 3 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rowan Amore Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 1 hour ago, Quartz Mole said: No, the automatic flagging system objected to something in your post, though heaven alone knows what. It does that sometimes for reasons no one understands. Anyway, I've unhidden it. I'm sure it is something internal but most who have had this happen can see nothing whatsoever that might be responsible for it, hence, we blame a glitch, gremlin, bug, aliens, conspiracies, etc. Heaven alone knows and reasons no one understands = no specific reason. I actually had a hidden post become unhidden MONTHS later. That's just weird. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moles Dyna Mole Posted March 20, 2022 Moles Share Posted March 20, 2022 8 minutes ago, Orwar said: You're not telling us you gave that thing a will of its own? And a muzzle. At least it told us that it didn't know what to do, so it asked. 😉 2 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marigold Devin Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 3 hours ago, Lindal Kidd said: And not in a good way. I just posted a reply in the Answers Forum and received a Notice: "Your response must be approved by a moderator", and my reply was flagged as "Hidden". I surmise from this that one or more of my recent posts has been judged to be too...harsh? Critical? Not-nice?...and that my submissions are being monitored. Either that or their Censorship Engine has got an awfully sensitive set of triggers. I guess I will be joining Phil Deakins's "Proud To Be Suspended Club" soon. 3 hours ago, Rowan Amore said: I've had that happen, as have others, for no specific reason. 2 hours ago, LittleMe Jewell said: We bid you welcome to the latest Forum Elite club 2 hours ago, Silent Mistwalker said: Certain words can set that feature off. I've had it happen and when I exchanged those words for another way of conveying my thoughts, it went through. It's not you. It's whoever enabled that feature that really has no clue what they are doing with it or how it works. ... and me too, but not for a few weeks. Never happened to me before (and after all these years!) it threw me into a bit of a wobble to tell you the truth. (Is Phil suspended? He is a buggeroo.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleMe Jewell Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 (edited) 25 minutes ago, Marigold Devin said: (Is Phil suspended? He is a buggeroo.) Not currently, as far as I know, but he has been in the past. Per his current forum 'title', he has been warned 8 times, but I think he's only been suspended 4 or 5 times. He isn't posting as often as he used to, maybe to help himself avoid getting into arguments with folks - last post was March 5th of this year. Edited March 20, 2022 by LittleMe Jewell 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
animats Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 (edited) Can't mention the name of this street. The forum software got upset when it was mentioned in a discussion of Asian fashion. This is the famous center of Japanese cute. It's in Harajuku, Tokyo. Edited March 20, 2022 by animats 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ceka Cianci Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 I just looked on my profile and it say's 0 warning points on it.. All these years and not a one? Ever get the feeling that you are invisible? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garnet Psaltery Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 6 minutes ago, Ceka Cianci said: I just looked on my profile and it say's 0 warning points on it.. All these years and not a one? Ever get the feeling that you are invisible? I don't see myself that way. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ceka Cianci Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 I was just being silly.. hehehe I don't really feel invisible.. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orwar Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 12 minutes ago, Ceka Cianci said: I just looked on my profile and it say's 0 warning points on it.. All these years and not a one? Ever get the feeling that you are invisible? I also have 0 .. That has got to be weird, right? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diamond Marchant Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 2 hours ago, Quartz Mole said: Anyway, I've unhidden it. Extra bugs (the insect kind) for Quartz, our hero! 3 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ceka Cianci Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 2 minutes ago, Orwar said: I also have 0 .. That has got to be weird, right? I would have thought I would have at least picked up a couple in mah old really long post days.. But then again,making them really long posts might have been what saved from getting any points.. I'm not reading all that!! \o/ hehehehe 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rowan Amore Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 I have 2 warnings (well deserved) but no points...yet...day's not over. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sid Nagy Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 (edited) Moderating a forum is a necessity, how strict is always questionable, but one has to accept the rules as they are. But I don't think that software moderation is added value. At least not as long software isn't capable to understand what the forum members write. Sure it can scan for a list of words or word combinations but usability is very limited IMHO. And Animats example a few posts up shows perfectly how easily software moderation can go wrong. Edited March 20, 2022 by Sid Nagy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleMe Jewell Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 26 minutes ago, animats said: Can't mention the name of this street. The forum software got upset when it was mentioned in a discussion of Asian fashion. This is the famous center of Japanese cute. It's in Harajuki, Tokyo. Yeah, the forum software isn't very good at ignoring naughty words that just happen to be embedded in the name of things/people. There are Residents with the last name Sweet.water (period added to keep it from starring out) - if we try to name them here in the forums, their name gets starred out because of the naughty word starting with 'tw' that is embedded in the name. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChinRey Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 26 minutes ago, Ceka Cianci said: I just looked on my profile and it say's 0 warning points on it.. All these years and not a one? Ever get the feeling that you are invisible? Same here and I have no idea what you have to do to earn those points. God knows I've tried. I do have two warnings and for the second one I laid it on so heavy they ended up deleting the entire thread, not just my post (I still stand by every word I wrote there btw but that's another story). Even that wasn't enough to win me a point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ceka Cianci Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 1 minute ago, ChinRey said: Same here and I have no idea what you have to do to earn those points. God knows I've tried. I do have two warnings and for the second one I laid it on so heavy they ended up deleting the entire thread, not just my post (I still stand by every word I wrote there btw but that's another story). Even that wasn't enough to win me a point. Wait, you mean warnings aren't points? OMG it's even worse than I thought it was.. I have Zero of those too!😭 hehehe 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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