RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:This is why I created the alternate forum...USNOOZEULOOZE wrote: argentia77, I totally agree that this is what the alternate forum maintains. But can you explain then why my post, which had a technical analysis slant, and certainly did not name-call or could have been considered a disruption (as noone had posted on the Reddit board in the prior 4 hours) was "moderated" and the message I received was "You are doing to much of that. Stop it." My post never appeared and was edited out. I am not trying to bash the new website, but feel that I must express that this has been my experience with it. It may be a glich, or that one moderator on your group of moderators is strongly against TA and has no use for it and thus saw it as a "low quality post". But quality is often in the eye of the beholder and as Craigbad pointed out, technical analysis made a lot of people money on this board. As a result of my experence, and it may not have been the same experience by others, I unsubscribed from the Reddit site and the website remains at 6 users of which I believe there are actually only 4 separate and distinct users (2 being aliases). And before you jump on the bandwagon to call me an alias, I am a new user who has been reading this website since September but not participating up until yesterday. There are lots of us in this position - as the average post on this board gets 70 "reads", implying at least 70 people view but certainly 70 different users do not participate in posting activity.
Hello, I was alerted of this complaint by my moderator team and I looked into your issue. This is the conclusion that I came upon: Hello, just looked into this. I looked at the moderation log which displays every change, edit, or removal that a specific moderator has made. Nobody has removed anything thus far, meaning nobody from the moderation team removed his post.
I know what he is describing though. There is an automatic spam filter that is implemented site wide on every single subreddit. All users with new accounts or users with negative karma have a "cool down" period, in which they have to wait a few minutes between posts. For example, he probably tried to comment a significant amount of times in a short time period, but since his account is new, the spam filter catches this as spam posting. Then you get a response that says something long the lines of "you're doing that too much, try again in 5 minutes". What this is referring to is posting too much, wait 5 minutes before you can post again. This spam filter can be easily avoided if you:
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Don't post or comment a lot within a short time frame.
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Accumulate a small amount of positive karma which turns the timer off all together.
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Verify your email address which allows the spam filter to "trust" you more.
Regardless, this spam filter is very good for the site, because it limits the posts of new users or users with negative karma (who could very well be robots or trolls who's main purpose is to spam a board) Here is Reddit's description of this phenomenon: 