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...did you have a point you wanted to make?
Your post seems to be a stream-of-consciousness panic dump, ticking off a laundry list of fears of varying degrees of plausibility, rhetorical questions and sweeping pronouncements without the slightest effort toward evidence or even argument, to say nothing of focus.
Donald Trump will not be the President of the United States for another 105 minutes, at this writing. Pick an issue, make an argument. Trying to fit everything you're scared of (or every news media talking point) into one post is not really conducive to productive discussion.
The post you responded to is filtered.
I might need to spin a local instance of The Motte for this, and it's been a while since I tried, but would some kind of custom CSS showing "hey this post is filtered out" help you guys at all?
Also, going only by your description, is there any chance that this is another Impassionata alt?
Clever idea: Create a robot moderator which queries the website both through itself and through incognito mode every say 5 minutes. If it sees posts present on its own version but not the incognito one it knows the post has been filtered. It can than auto approve it since it has mod privileges.
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Maybe a little, though as @naraburns says, there is a development discord and I think there are a lot of more urgent needs. The problem with filtered posts is that we (mods) can see all of them in the Filtered queue, but if we're reading the forum in normal mode, a filtered post appears like every other post to us (unless we happen to notice the little "approve" link at the bottom, so I guess having that appear in green or red to a mod might be of some use.
Nah. Impassionata has a very distinct style, and like most dedicated trolls, he's basically incapable of hiding it.
Ok, now Im confused. Last week I asked nara about this post, which says "Removed", but was apparently deleted by the author. I thought ok, maybe theres only one lable used for both - but now this one says "Deleted by author", when its apparently filtered?
A post can be filtered. It can also be removed either by a mod or by author, either while it's still in a filtered state or after it has been approved.
I think what happened in this case is that @naraburns responded to it while it was still filtered, and then the author deleted it before any mod approved it.
Thats what I would have thought as well, but then why does the old link say "Removed", if it was deleted by the author?
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Right, this is what I meant. It might even be possible to highlight the entire post, rather than just the link.
I tried to tell this to Zorba when he announced the discord, but I think he picked the absolutely worst way to coordinate development. Oh well, I'll hit him up and ask if there's anything high-priority.
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My apologies. I'm sure if you have the ability to improve the codebase, you'd be welcome on the development Discord.
As for the post, looks like they've deleted it, so, I guess it's a moot point.
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