Awaiting moderation - How long does it usually take?

Mojoest

Its only been a couple of hours, so maybe I'm being impatient, (more than likely ;-p), but I've tried to submit a new marketplace thread and it showed a message of awaiting moderation (or something along those lines).

The only other thread that I had that came back with a moderation flag was a also a marketplace one, but then it appeared that no one was ultimately notified about it. I wonder whether it was because the post is very long (a long list of things for trade/sale)

what criteria evokes a need for moderation, (i.e. some sort of character limit that I've gone over)?

How long does the process take and how do we know if we have been unsuccessful? Just because last time it turned out the moderation flag didn't actually trigger anything to inform the mods/admins and so is there a way that posters can know where things are up to?

Is there a way to raise a query with mods/admins about technical aspects like this, or is it best just to post a new topic?

plasmodium

I've never heard of threads awaiting moderation before - if you think they haven't seen it, just tag one of the mods. ;-)

Huw

It was caught by the spam trap. Not sure why as it doesn't catch many legitimate messages, just hundreds of attempts to join the forum every day.

http://www.bricksetforum.com/discussion/17375/uk-ww-ft-fs-various-cmfs-minifigures-polys-and-sets#latest

Mojoest

Thanks Huw!

The post was a pretty long one so it probably got bored and just marked it a spam by default ;-p

graphite

Just had a reply I made in my WTB thread get tagged for approval before posting.

graphite

Just had a reply I made in my WTB thread get tagged for approval before posting.

graphite

^lol appears all of the posts I made that went straight to moderation that you approved @Huw ended up double posting.