90% of my posts don’t show ….

There’s a limit on the number of links of your are using more than one per reply.

From experience as the user end, your “with references” comment may be key in this case. Any post with more than one link to another webpage goes into the moderation/spam bin from where it will most likely never return.

And it’s still an issue. Had 4 posts blocked over the past week or so for quotes of quotes. None have been released as far as I can see.

But we can’t avoid using quotes if we want to add to previous comments else they end up being hard to follow and even easier to miss.

Perhaps allowing comments to nest would reduce the need for quote?

Same with including links in posts. How many is OK before they get sent to the moderation bin?

ChrisC wrote:

Same with including links in posts. How many is OK before they get sent to the moderation bin?

Based upon the time I linked to the worst toilet in Scotland, only one link is plenty.

We are looking at ways of introducing limited third party moderation. This is likely to involve selected people being given the power to delete (not alter) any post. This would allow spam / bad language etc to be removed quickly.

The issue with quoted comments going into moderation is nothing to do with the forum software and everything to do with our site security software.

When you post a comment, you are injecting code into the HfP database. Obviously you’re not injecting a virus but any sort of upload is treated suspiciously for obvious reasons. What we don’t know is why quotes get tougher treatment, EXCEPT potentially that a quote includes CSS which wouldn’t be in a normal post.