I spent significant time creating my first post, and it was deleted, not approved.
The SMF software offers a feature, a recycle bin, that would enable undoing such things.
Suggestion: if not already enabled, it would be good to set that up.
Quote* Create a (hidden) Board for recycled topics
* Admin -> Forum -> Boards and Categories -> Settings -> Enable recycling of deleted topics
* Below that, select the Board for recycled topics.
QuoteI spent significant time creating my first post, and it was deleted, not approved.
I have not deleted any of your posts.
Unless a moderator did it, which I doubt, I would count this as a
computer error.
Ne moderation log entries for your account, and only one post recorded in your stats.
I see no recent post deletes in the moderation log.
Recycle bin is off and was never needed, for the past about 10 years.
When a topic is deleted, it is deleted for good reasons.
We don't have to delete topics very often, since IMatch community users are sensible and friendly people.
The only case I actually delete posts is when I delete yet another SPAM bot account who posted links to shady web sites.
The last time a topic was removed (as part of deleting a SPAM account) was on August 12.
Thanks for looking into this!
Yes, quite strange. I wrote, posted, saw the pink "unapproved"... and then it was gone. Perhaps that accidentally coincided with something else. Oh well, non-repeatable things are incredibly hard to diagnose! Let's just move on :)
All new members are unapproved until a moderator has approved their first couple of posts.
This keeps out all the SPAM bots and other riff-raff just joining to post links to scam web sites and whatnot.
The more intelligent Spammers learn quickly that it is a waste of their time if nobody sees their posts before a moderator explicitly approves them. Which we don't. Instead we just delete their account. And so they move elsewhere.