Why do my posts need approval?

[Kris Hunt]

About half the time I post anything here, I get the message "a moderator needs to approve your reply before it can be posted." It's been like this for several months. Does this happen to anyone else? Am I on probation or something?

[Ray Yorkshire]

Same.

And it  seems to depend  somehow on the time of day and / or if a link is added.

Understandable for new accounts to prevent spam, but you'd think after a few good  posts we would get presumed innocent.- but no...

Annoying too as  it gets a notification when approved .

Also you can  waste time answering  a question which  has in fact already  been correctly answered - but not yet approved - as you don't see it .

[Doug A Roberts]

i've asked in a staff area to see if there's a logical reason. or not.

[Dave Merchant]

Adobe has no idea why a particular message is queued. The decision is made by a third-party automated service which compares the content of the message against real-time patterns of traffic on this and other forums, so if a spammer elsewhere is using certain phrases that can affect other users' submissions.

Moderators cannot flag a user for enhanced filtering, so anything that gets queued is entirely the fault of the software.

[Jacob Bugge · Accepted solution]

Kris, Ray, Doug,

It is an antispam matter, caused by the (socalled) Mollow plugin which hits posts with (multiple) links and similar. There are group exceptions to the Mollom plugin, including Staff, MVPs and ACPs.

Edit: And what Dave said.

Hi Dave.