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"Awaiting moderator approval"

A topic by reFLEX64 created 22 days ago Views: 299 Replies: 17
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"Awaiting moderator approval

Thank you for your post. It must be approved by a moderator before it will be shown due to this community's settings or due to your recent account activity."

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My "...recent account activity."? There is none! I only post covers here. I didn't post anything offensive. Please clarify what the issue is here? I mean come on, this is ridiculous I post covers & reply sometimes, that's it. Why would you block me for that?

PS: I sent a mail to itch support, this is a bad joke. Unblock my account or tell me what's up. I might delete my account if this keeps up. Censorship is a no-go.

Moderator (1 edit)

Please read the rules of Questions&Support. They're relevant to your situation.

My "Situation"? I've read those. Explain why you block me please.

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"You" in this case is automated filters on the server side, so itch.io staff can review posts for potential spam. It's happening to a lot of people lately, as you can see in the same category. But as explained in those rules, itch.io staff doesn't watch the forums, so your angry demands are unlikely to be seen by the people who can do something about it. Oh, and the same rules also tell you what to do if your e-mail goes unanswered.

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If itch has a problem with spam, why block legit users? Sounds like a problem of itch to me. Anyway I will wait a while.

PS: My request was accepted with a support number.

Moderator

...I said it's an automated spam filter, that holds posts so a human can double-check. This is standard practice.

The problem is, that Itch cannot reliable say who is legit and who not. That's my educated guess. 

I support this with the fact that the latest scam spammer I saw was an account created in 2024.

due to this community's settings

You forgot this part of the reasoning. An often wished for feature by developers is to have at least restricted comment sections.

And I guess the overall system setting of communities is currently something that puts a lot of comments on that moderator approval waiting list.

I am not even sure who moderates those. Because people that work for Itch are not usually called moderators. Maybe it is the developers themselves in some cases. Or there are "moderators" that just do not talk and are different from the blue community mods (like no time). I think no time would have noticed the workload of approving a ton of comments. 

Moderator

Oh, right. Game comments are moderated by itch.io staff, not community moderators! And people post a lot more on game pages than in the forum. So that could be part of the problem.

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No wonder people often think mods are staff... ;-)

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Nothing's happening. I got no email reply, nothing. If this continues I seriously think about leaving itch, this is bollocks. If I can't participate here then why should I even stay. Getting a bit angry here.

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dude I'm so sorry for you I was talking with a friend once in awhile just friendly conversation and all I did was compliment developers games and yes I did talk about a route that was happening in a adult game it involves sharing that's what in the adult game I just don't know why they did this to me too I love anime stories and rpg games I just know I was gone for awhile probably a month I come back I get the moderater approval thing it's so unfair and not cool

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my name blue drago and I like to party 🥳🎉

please help why every message I type is waiting for moderater approval 

I never did nothing wrong but talk about my favorite games or compliment the developer please get me off of it I can't even talk to the developer of new games I just downloaded to tell them I really liked there game this is so uncool I checked back several times and no moderater approved or posted my message I was gone for awhile and came back and that's when this moderater stuff started happening 

I even had a friend I was talking too on a page and I can't talk no more because the moderater approval it says it can take a day or couple but it's weeks going on a month now and my message still doesn't show this is unfair 😞

Please moderator please help me I just want to be able to comment on games I like and compliment the developer for there artwork and story telling 

Moderator (2 edits)

Replying to a moderator in a completely unrelated topic instead of making your own in Questions & Support isn't going to help.

Edit: by the way, please don't spam half a dozen posts in someone else's conversation. It's called waiting a little. People are busy sometimes.

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I'm not spamming I thought this was the section to talk about this because it said awaiting moderator approval didn't even know where to go and found this posts and thought this was the section but it still doesn't give you guys the right to treat us this way your talking already and started assuming things the way your conversation is towards me