Sometimes I start a post and then have to stop in the middle of it.  For example, I may have to take a phone call.  It may be fifteen minutes or more until I can get back to finishing the post.

Next time you walk away and then come back and finish the post and it sends to moderation, let us know.

Admin has enough to do without having to look into why a certain post was moderated.  It was just a thought about random moderation.

So it doesn't bother me. I'm just not sure what the benefit is to TER. I know they don't have the staff to do much moderation but doing it randomly seems like a waste of their time.

I have gone back and edited a post for typos or misspellings after I posted it.  But its not always.  Sometimes I add or delete an entire paragraph, and it doesn't go to moderation.  Coincidentally, most of the ones that go to moderation for me after editing are on the P & R board.  It rarely happens on the other boards.  About once or twice a week, I will get a random moderation on one that wasn't edited.  I asked Support about it, and they said it was randomly selected by the computer for moderation, so I haven't thought much about it since.

Just happened to me.  Mine should be coming up just below this one.

Not really a problem for me. But sometimes I do wonder why when almost all of my posts go live immediately. None of the moderated posts I have sent over the last several months were ever declined.  I just assumed that Admin has some random selection criteria to pick a few posts an (hour/day?) to ensure "regulars" aren't straying from TOS guidelines. At least that's what I'd do if I had to monitor posts with limited resources.  

When you press reply, you are taken to a page that has a form for you to fill in and submit

Random moderation does NOT apply to edited posts, which almost ALWAYS go into moderation. In my experience only about one in 100 edited posts DON'T go into moderation. I can't even remember the last time an edited post of mine did NOT go automatically into moderation.
In fact, this is the main reason I rarely edit posts for typos. TER has such a small staff now it takes far too long for an edited post to be approved.
Keep up, will ya?

...they get posted immediately.  Otherwise you're right, all edited posts DO go into moderation.

Never had am edited post on the Kgirl board go to moderation, and I've only had ONE post randomly moderated, and that was several months ago.

that I edited and it DIDN'T go to moderation, but another one did.  Not sure if we agree or not.  Your headline said, "no," but then you said it "almost" always goes to moderation.  "Almost" I would agree with.  

I limit my posts to the OTHER cesspool known as P&R. LOL

Ok, let's see if this edit causes my post to go into moderation. I am betting NO.

-- Modified on 8/28/2020 10:15:03 AM

In my experience very few of my posts go into random moderation just because I decided to edit them. Yes, it does happen at times, and I have noticed that it seems to be rather streaky, sometimes I will go weeks without a post going into random moderation and then I'll get three in a row that all go into moderation queue.

My edits invariable go into moderation.  For the first three years I was here, all my posts went into moderation.  Suddenly one day they went direct.  I don't know why.  I never asked for it.

I made a post on this very thread this morning, edited it and it went back "live" immediately, so not ALL edited posts on this board go into moderation.  

Sorry, but once again you are WRONG. lmao

That does not appear to be the case. I have had edited post active immediately without moderation on several boards and I have had edits posts to the K-Girl board go to moderation.

should go to moderation for at least a week, edited or not.  LOL

Do you mean that "for a week" all of his posts should go into moderation? OR Do you mean that ALL his posts should be go into the moderation queue for an entire week before going live? lol

...does it say:  "-- Modified on 8/28/2020 1:42:46 PM"

spend a week in moderation before being released.

Let me explain this S-L-O-W-L-Y so even an idiot like you will understand.

What we have in common is we find you to be a toxic ass-clown. And we are not alone.
Oh, and feel free to point out ANYTHING on this thread I've said that's incorrect.
Dimwit.

In the earlier versions of the TER GUI, each post had time stamp of DATE AND TIME of the original post. I wish they would go back to that format. This "new" GUI only displays how long ago the post went up and, even that, is in a weird way because it uses the "wall clock", not elapsed time.  
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You will see posts that say:  
Handle ... 5 minutes ago ... 2 reads  
Handle ... 9 hours ago ... 16 reads
Handle ... yesterday ... 24 reads ... 1 like
Handle ... 3 days ago ... 37 reads ... 2 likes
Handle ... 4 years ago ... 117 reads ... 4 likes
and so on.
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I have noticed that a post becomes "yesterday" as soon as the clock on the wall at TER HQ passes 12 midnite. That is, if a post goes up 11:58 PM and appears as "1 minute ago", in 3 minutes it will be 12:01 AM of the next day and that 3 minute old post gets labeled "yesterday."  
Handle ... 1 minute ago ... 1 read (posting time = 11:58 PM)
Handle ... yesterday ... 2 reads (it is now 12:01 AM of the next day but it's only 3 minutes of elapsed time)
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Oh ... so there is SUPPOSED to be a way to see the original posting time by hovering over the time or subject line or clicking or something but it has never worked for me. The only way I know of to find the time stamp on a post is to hit the Reply button and that the more detailed posting time info will appear for all to see.
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But there is still a big mystery factor as far as I can tell. E.g., let's say that original posting time says,
"8/28/2020 6:42:26 AM" and goes live with no moderation. I think that that time, 6:42:26 AM, is the time the post goes live, not the time that the poster began composing the post NOR the time the poster hit "Post Message".
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Let's say you see some stuff you want to edit (as I am doing to this post), so you start editing exactly 2 hours later, i.e., 8:42:26 AM (there is a 3? or 4? hour window within which posts remain editable). THAT post goes into random or "it was edited" moderation and it gets an automatic time stamp IN THE BODY OF THE MESSAGE. As far as I can GUESS, the time stamp in the body of the message, put there by the TER software, is not the time of the EDIT but the time that post goes live, after moderation.
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So, I think there IS a way to see how long a post stays in moderation (even "zero" moderation) by checking the time stamps. ... If it works that way I think it works.  
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Submit message at 00:00:00.
Message goes live at 00:00:00 OR maybe delayed to 00:11:11.  
   I think the time stamp of the OP is the time that the message goes live.
Edit message at 02:22:22 and submit to repost at 02:33:33.
Message goes live at 02:33:33 OR maybe delayed to 04:44:44.
   I think the "modified on" time added to the body of the message will be 04:44:44, not 02:33:33.
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Anybody?

I thought you guys were friends. IIRC, you mentioned in some thread you met him in that 3rd world country he likes to monger in.

But he picked his TDS over the people he claimed were his friends.  

He fled the thread on P&R rather than respond.

You really are a sucker for conspiracy theories, aren’t you?

Unfortunately it was especially BAD treatment as new management (at the time) not so secretly wanted us all to simply go away. Every one of us was immediately put on moderated status upon the change of management and our views were MORE likely to be censored, not less.  

So how many times has TER switched hands?

It was started some twenty years ago by (I don't even know if it's permitted to use his complete name here) sold to our good friends in Tulip land who we so lovingly referred to as the "EC's" until they figured out what it stood for. lol and then recently we had our last change in management which was a huge change for the better IMHO.

Thanks