"Not Visible Until Moderator Approves"

[Harry Longshanks]

Twice I have received this message upon pressing the "Post" button after composing a post. Once was in a post where I was replying to someone else's thread (that post never showed up), and the other time was just a few minutes ago when I tried to start a thread here (the tech support thread - and that one hasn't shown up yet either, but it's only been a few minutes).

I've searched the site for an explanation, but haven't been able to find one. Am I doing something incorrectly?

Thanks.

[iacas]

I've searched the site for an explanation, but haven't been able to find one. Am I doing something incorrectly?

The tech support forum is moderated. I approved the post and am now replying to it. It's moderated because it's for announcements, mostly, and occasionally tech support.

The first 50 posts a user makes in the other forums are monitored by anti-spam software. If there's a chance your post is spammy (you may have included a URL or something), it gets held. That's a new feature, I believe, in vBulletin 3.7.

[Harry Longshanks]

The tech support forum is moderated. I approved the post and am now replying to it. It's moderated because it's for announcements, mostly, and occasionally tech support.

Yep, that explains it. The first had a URL as part of my answer to the OPs question about demo'ing clubs. The software probably thought it was spam.

The other was in the tech support forum. Thanks! I wanted to make sure I wasn't doing something procedurally wrong, or that I had gotten myself on the "naughty" list.