Yes, sorry about that! I just discovered our forum has been auto-moderating a bunch of posts. It started automatically flagging certain posts about 2 years ago. I didn't realize this or explicitly configure anything (that I remember 🙂). A small percentage of the posts it flagged were actual spam, so it wasn't completely useless, but I wish there were some settings that I can use to tone it down.
After discovering this today, I approved a bunch of old posts going back about 6 months. Unfortunately it posted them all as new instead of using the dates when they were originally created, so most of the comments and posts from the last hour were actually from 6 months ago. I moved all the bug reports into the "Resolved" category since a ton of them were from back when the DB was corrupt and failing.
I think I'm just going to delete everything else in the queue and now that I know that it exists, check it more often. @jim, You should too 🙂 (it's in the gear menu at the top).
I was looking to see if a newer version of the forum software would have better moderation settings and discovered that the project officially closed down at the end of 2024. So now we'll need to transition over to some new forum sometime in the near future. Yay.
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Yes, sorry about that! I just discovered our forum has been auto-moderating a bunch of posts. It started automatically flagging certain posts about 2 years ago. I didn't realize this or explicitly configure anything (that I remember 🙂). A small percentage of the posts it flagged were actual spam, so it wasn't completely useless, but I wish there were some settings that I can use to tone it down.
After discovering this today, I approved a bunch of old posts going back about 6 months. Unfortunately it posted them all as new instead of using the dates when they were originally created, so most of the comments and posts from the last hour were actually from 6 months ago. I moved all the bug reports into the "Resolved" category since a ton of them were from back when the DB was corrupt and failing.
I think I'm just going to delete everything else in the queue and now that I know that it exists, check it more often. @jim, You should too 🙂 (it's in the gear menu at the top).
@david @jim It never ends, does it? We appreciate all that you do for us Greenfelters. Thank you.
I was looking to see if a newer version of the forum software would have better moderation settings and discovered that the project officially closed down at the end of 2024. So now we'll need to transition over to some new forum sometime in the near future. Yay.
Nope, it never does 🙂.