Why do my threads keeping getting removed for "approval" after edits?

folv

Is this a known issue? I have a thread up for days (I have a costume compilation thread i've been adding onto every once in a while), and randomly sometimes after editing I lose the entire flipping thread to "approval". No way to access it, and no way to see what's going on with that pending approval...

Is there a way to avoid this? Thankfully, this time around I saved the initial thread itself which took hours to draft up. But all of the edits i've done in the last couple days were lost... very frustrating.

lezard21

Unfortunately no way around this, it's the forum's anti-spam kicking in. The forum is extremely aggresive when you post too many links, videos or images at once on one single post and will auto-flag it for approval. Best way to avoid this from happening is to limit images per post to 4 or 5, and wait 10-15 minutes before making another post with 4 or 5 images. The forum devs will eventually restore the removed topics, but it's not on their list of priorities so might take 4-5 days.

folv

Oh jeez... got a lot of duplicate topics coming back then I imagine. That's going to be messy, lol.

markhawkman

the spam filter seemingly treats edits as separate posts from the original. thus it will sometimes see the edit as a duplicate post and vanish it.