@julian hope you can do both soon enough. It was very frustrating not being able to post references. I think I've never spammed in my life, yet those robots are not much better than humans in filtering me out. Maybe this is just a very personal frustration thing, but well, anyway, here you go with some (more) feedback.

Another ideas:

• Improve the message about the spam. Advise people to remove links maybe. (You're probably aware of this general idea of no intro stage)
• Set a threshold for adding up to 1 or 2 links at least (like discourse do), without akismet getting to it.

@baris may we know what was the threshold before and what is it now?

@scottalanmiller thanks, it's working now!

except i just got this, lol.

as a new user, you can only post once every 300 second(s) until you have earned 1 reputation - please wait before posting again

@scottalanmiller said in moderated? your post is queued for approval.:

more importantly, it's a mechanism to show others when they look at your posts that other community members have flagged them as unhelpful or misleading or whatever.

sounds like a great way to feed into an echo chamber, the way it's set.

if 2 members get triggered and enter in a loop, like it just happened with me (it was always 2 down votes), then i'm suddenly and quickly "banned".

constructive criticism isn't easy to give, and it's even harder to take. nobody have to adjust or accept it, but i did my best to be constructive in every single post. i'm not spamming or doing anything really negative at all (other than reacting boldly mostly to you). that should be worth more than being moderated away.

funny enough, i think you were the only one to even give me any positive votes, even if out of pity.

@PitaJ said in moderated? your post is queued for approval.:

There is no notification for when people downvote your posts. If you'd like that to change you can open an issue on GitHub

lol, nope, thanks. if i ever get to use nodebb for real, i'll see. but my experience here says it'd probably be a bad idea for me.

since my first post, 5 years ago, and the one from 10 days ago, i was trying to do basically 3 things: engage, give lots of feedback for improvement and enjoy the ride. from my perspective, i was just giving my best contribution.

perhaps i got just a bit lost in the way for this last iteration on the past week or so... i certainly got triggered. was it enough to justify my "soft ban"?

so far all i heard was "yes".

if so, why should i bother to continue here?

enjoy your toy. i lost all interest.