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Question: Not approving my threads?

Relith

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    So, I have submitted a new thread that took a long time to create, and it was never approved, but I have seen new threads that were approved before mine was. Why is that?
     
    It depends on what forum it's in and how busy the moderator there is. The general rule of thumb is that if a thread it taking too long for approval, send a friendly PM to the moderator. Sometimes they forget or something.
     
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    Well it was deleted by Neo-Dragon so it appears it didn't meet the section's standards. You seem to be missing basic things required in the Drawing Board forum. Read the rules and try again.

    Thats pretty screwed up you know!! And can you guys just leave it and tell him to modify, he took all that time and the moderator just deletes it thats cruel.
     
    WHISBII said:
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    Well it was deleted by Neo-Dragon so it appears it didn't meet the section's standards. You seem to be missing basic things required in the Drawing Board forum. Read the rules and try again.

    Thats pretty screwed up you know!! And can you guys just leave it and tell him to modify, he took all that time and the moderator just deletes it thats cruel.
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    I have to agree there, why couldn't the mdoerator send it back and tell the creator to fix whats wrong, instead of deleting what this souns like a really good thread.

    Don't worry it has happened to me like 3 times already and I DID meet all the requirements?
     
    Curious. said:
    I have to agree there, why couldn't the mdoerator send it back and tell the creator to fix whats wrong, instead of deleting what this souns like a really good thread.
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    Because, uhm, how do you send a thread wat.
     
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    Don't worry it has happened to me like 3 times already 
and I DID meet all the requirements?

    Yea me to, but my point is the thread should of been kept open not deleted.

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    Because, uhm, how do you send a thread wat.

    Simple they shouldn't of deleted it just tell him to fix it.
     
    The thing is, what should you delete and what shouldn't you delete?

    You can't just leave every crappy thread out and tell people to improve. There's no way to tell just effort, either. Results show. Effort doesn't.
     
    WHISBII said:
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    Don't worry it has happened to me like 3 times already 
and I DID meet all the requirements?

    Yea me to, but my point is the thread should of been kept open not deleted.

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    Because, uhm, how do you send a thread wat.

    Simple they shouldn't of deleted it just tell him to fix it.
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    Your act is getting old. Drop it. If you hate PC so much, no one is forcing you to stay here.

    And OP, PM Neo-Dragon and ask him for advice on how to improve your thread to meet the forum's standard. And if you want I can send you your thread again so you don't have to start over.
     
    See, if you leave it open, you let the whole world look at any fail that's there, and even after it's fixed, they might still not like it because it wasn't done properly.

    Not show it and it's fine. You can always PM the mod to see why and then fix it up.
     
    What I am trying to say by 'sending it back' is that mabye the moderator could send some imporvements. Not the actual thread. Sorry for that.
     
    Happens with thread moderation. Its probably not up to snuff. Fix it and resubmit it. C+P it to Word or notepad or something so you can expand upon if after getting ideas from the forum moderator.

    EDIT: @ Above, Luke wasn't talking to you.
     
    WHISBII said:
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    Well it was deleted by Neo-Dragon so it appears it didn't meet the section's standards. You seem to be missing basic things required in the Drawing Board forum. Read the rules and try again.

    Thats pretty screwed up you know!! And can you guys just leave it and tell him to modify, he took all that time and the moderator just deletes it thats cruel.
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    If you hate the staff so much for being douches, why are you being douche? Do you want to become a moderator or something?

    But it's kinda obvious why you're thread isn't approved if you don't see it. And it's best to double check with the moderator in case they didn't notice it.
     
    I've had this happen to me before, too, in the moveset & strategies forum on another account. I checked everyday for a week, and was never informed that my topic "didn't meet requirements"; however, when it comes to infractions, I'm instantly sent a rude PM telling me what I did wrong (even though another mod' already talked to me about it). Perhaps that's more of an extreme spot, but it's not that difficult to send a quoted copy of the post to the thread creator and say "You've done this wrong". That'd definitely be the more considerate option, rather than just deleting it and not telling what went wrong.

    That's like handing in homework and the teacher putting an F on it without circling errors and mentioning "not enough detail", etc. That's a pretty crappy teacher.
     
    Yusshin said:
    I've had this happen to me before, too, in the moveset & strategies forum on another account. I checked everyday for a week, and was never informed that my topic "didn't meet requirements"; however, when it comes to infractions, I'm instantly sent a rude PM telling me what I did wrong (even though another mod' already talked to me about it). Perhaps that's more of an extreme spot, but it's not that difficult to send a quoted copy of the post to the thread creator and say "You've done this wrong". That'd definitely be the more considerate option, rather than just deleting it and not telling what went wrong.

    That's like handing in homework and the teacher putting an F on it without circling errors and mentioning "not enough detail", etc. That's a pretty crappy teacher.
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    Eaxctly what I have been thinking. Why not send some suggesrtions instead of just deleting it. I know where some people are coming from, escpecially the moderators. They don't have time to quote every single thread that is not up to scratch that would spend time easily. But still..
     
    Curious. said:
    Eaxctly what I have been thinking. Why not send some suggesrtions instead of just deleting it. I know where some people are coming from, escpecially the moderators. They don't have time to quote every single thread that is not up to scratch that would spend time easily. But still..
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    But still.. People should have read the rules before posting their thread to await approval.
     
    Yusshin said:

    That's like handing in homework and the teacher putting an F on it without circling errors and mentioning "not enough detail", etc. That's a pretty crappy teacher.
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    Yes, but only if the kid was a pretty crappy kid and had like 500 words instead of a needed 2000.
     
    ...So many people are taking others' comments out of context in such a great deal. It's surprising. Most of these I didn't think could be taken out of context, yet somehow they were.

    This is the only thing I don't like about thread approval on a vBulletin forum system. If a thread is unapproved for whatever reason, on any forum in the community, the thread is deleted. The moderator usually puts the reason in the deleted thread notice and that's it. The members have absolutely no idea why their thread wasn't approved and contacting every single member individually through private messages is so stressful for some of the forums considering how many members post a thread in that forum a day.

    Most of the time when a member posts a thread, they don't see the problems until after they post it or someone reads it and points out the problems. It happens with everything usually. Be it a research paper at school, or something else. Usually the person creating whatever they're creating doesn't spot the errors that someone who hasn't stared at it for hours would be able to spot hands down.

    Deleting the thread isn't exactly the problem. It's the fact that most people who don't ask sit there wondering why their thread wasn't approved. I think this calls for some add-on hunting. An add-on that sets a thread that's in a moderated forum to have something submitted to the member who created the original post for the thread with the reason the moderator didn't approve it. It doesn't have to be anything big or anything. Just an automatic PM that's sent to the member after a moderator decides that the thread doesn't belong.

    Just my opinion. But Luke's suggestion on asking Neo-Dragon is the only thing you can do right now.
     
    ^ Heh. Our teacher wanted a 3-4 page report on something, I give her 10 pages of high detail and I got a B because I don't double-space my work. And it came out in black and white.

    Anyway, the moderator had the rights to do so as the OP should have both read the rules and looked at threads that were allowed in. That's how I got my Trade Thread up, which deserves to have moderator approval.
     
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