I’ve been here for a while but I have been mostly lurking offline. Decided to ask a question and found out I had to wait for it to be approved. Okay, took around 6-8 hours to be approved, whatever. Now I’ve read that the forums weren’t always like this( but I didn’t know since I never posted earlier) and it probably had something to do with the ■■■■ pics a certain user posted.
As I’m posting this I currently have another post that has already been pending for 22 hours. This is beyond ridiculous. How is this restriction supposed to encourage participation when your comment or post might not even be relevant(or be late/repeat of statements others have said) by the time it gets approved. This will turn off any kind of new poster thinking about replying or asking a question. It’s like having locked-in syndrome. I’m not even that new here so at least have a less restricting user level for lurkers or something. I’ve since started lurking online to have statistics that I was here.
I understand that this is an anti-spam measure but this isn’t the right way to go about it. What’s a forum where you can’t speak without a mod here 24/7. If anything, modding should be done after the post, not before. But seeing as how my post haven’t been approved for almost a day, it’s likely that they don’t have man-power towards the forum and don’t want things to get out of control when it’s unmodded.
Let’s see how long it takes for this to get approved. Timestamped at 10:08AM PST.