The forum says that a moderator has to approve my posts, yet I have tried to start 3 topics - and none of them have appeared. What is going on?
None of my posts are appearing.
#1
Posted 09 December 2016 - 09:49 PM
#2
Posted 11 December 2016 - 06:55 PM
First post and it's in the wrong section. Great start:)
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#3
Posted 11 December 2016 - 08:10 PM
First post and it's in the wrong section. Great start:)
Quit it. >:(
The forum says that a moderator has to approve my posts, yet I have tried to start 3 topics - and none of them have appeared. What is going on?
The mods are... busy, if I'm going to be vague, yet distantly respectful. You will have full posting rights after 5 posts are approved. This is due to a spate of gore troll posts that followed a community manager from a previous game to this community. I would find some off-topic threads and contribute there and wait for all 5 to be approved, at which point you'll be a fully-functioning member of the community.
Sucks, I know, but after the relentless spam of shotgun and firework-mauled hands, I'm not going to argue.
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#4
Posted 11 December 2016 - 08:45 PM
You probably won't believe Amid on face value.
Believe Amid on face value.
As for the postcount, it's better this way. Seriously.
Did I say Call Me Ishmael?
You should call me Luna.
#5
Posted 11 December 2016 - 09:43 PM
#6
Posted 11 December 2016 - 11:20 PM
First post and it's in the wrong section. Great start:)
I did in fact attempt to start 3 different topics in "technical assistance" section over the past month before resorting to making a post in "general discussion". I did this, because common sense told me that moderators check the general discussion section first, and may have been missing my posts in other sections. Maybe if you had thought things through before being hasty in your decision to bash me, you would have realized this. I have in fact posted in my fair share of forums over the years, and do understand proper forum etiquette; something you obviously lack.
To be honest, I didn't even think this thread would be approved after my last 3 were ignored. My whole purpose of registering on this forum was to communicate to one of the members via private message. However, I guess I have to make 4 more spam posts in order to do so, unless a moderator can speed up the process and spare themselves the grief/embarrassment of having to deal with my nonsense posts.
#7
Posted 13 December 2016 - 10:57 AM
Same, it honestly took me months to get to my 5th post since many of them were never approved and just kind of disappeared into the void. In fact, I wasn't even aware I could freely post yet until logging in today to see my post from back in october in a similar thread was finally approved.
dont know what to say, but starting threads like this seems to at least get some attention and get the gears moving for approval. As someone coming from the other side I know how frustrating it is trying to make a post in a thread only to never see it show up, or having weeks pass before it appears (and by then the thread is long-gone anyways). looks like patience and endurance is the best strategy here (much like with Hawken itself) ![]()
#8
Posted 14 December 2016 - 12:02 AM
There has to be other ways of filtering out trolls. I have probably registered in 50+ forums over the course of my life, and this is without a doubt the most ridiculous process I have ever encountered. It's almost laughable, and I wonder how many people gave up after it took weeks for just one of their posts to appear. With this system in place, the forum will slowly but surely die a slow death. Members who leave will not be replaced, since new members will lose interest before getting to post 5. Honestly, the only reason I am still around is because I just want to send a PM to another member and be done with this forum. Maybe my posts will also help the admins/moderators realize the idiocy of the registration process.
#9
Posted 14 December 2016 - 02:32 PM
Can't they get some longtime community members to volunteer to approve posts? It isn't like they would be able to do anything bad with that sort of privilege, and it feels like the mods themselves only check the threads every other day at best.
...but after the relentless spam of shotgun and firework-mauled hands, I'm not going to argue.
Oh, I heard about this while asking people if I should pick the game up. It was in response to neif or something, right? Or was it just the reboot and change of hands in management in general?
But really though, hands? That actually seems oddly softcore as far as gore goes. I mean, don't get me wrong, in the general sense that's gore-enough for me, but it's still weird in the same way that something like diet heroin would be weird. May as well just use actual heroin at that point. Suicide by shotgun to the head only has a 99% success rate, something of that nature would be way more brutal.
this is without a doubt the most ridiculous process I have ever encountered
The process itself isn't so horrible, it's just the low frequency at which posts actually get approved due to the forums being surveyed so sparsely. It would be nice if we could make five posts at once and wait for them to all be approved at the same time though.
#10
Posted 14 December 2016 - 06:53 PM
There has to be other ways of filtering out trolls. I have probably registered in 50+ forums over the course of my life, and this is without a doubt the most ridiculous process I have ever encountered. It's almost laughable, and I wonder how many people gave up after it took weeks for just one of their posts to appear. With this system in place, the forum will slowly but surely die a slow death. Members who leave will not be replaced, since new members will lose interest before getting to post 5. Honestly, the only reason I am still around is because I just want to send a PM to another member and be done with this forum. Maybe my posts will also help the admins/moderators realize the idiocy of the registration process.
The process works. We haven't seen a case of babaji vd in a while. You weren't here for it, take our word for it. Yes it sucks, but the positive effects outweigh the negative ones. It just takes a while for the community management to get things done.
Edited by coldform, 14 December 2016 - 06:53 PM.
I like going against the best of any game I play. Helps you in the long run n motivates u to do more. Always room for improvement not failure

FIRST OFF WHAT THE FUZZ IS A "SHILL"
#11
Posted 15 December 2016 - 11:39 PM
Can't they get some longtime community members to volunteer to approve posts? It isn't like they would be able to do anything bad with that sort of privilege, and it feels like the mods themselves only check the threads every other day at best.
Well, while this suggestion has been implemented in the past, it didn't work out so well on more than one occasion. There are some supposid "community moderators" but they seem to be as absent as the actual Hawken community moderator. Who knows what privileges they have and if they have the ability to approve posts. In fact we don't really know anything about them other than they weren't longtime Hawken community members to begin with, I had a theory they were from the APB community, but then again they could of just been new players from the console platforms. I don't think anyone ever really found out.
Either way if you ask me theres only one person with moderator privileges that seems to be devoting his spare time to this forum and he'll eventually get around to filtering out the new users from the babajii spam. I know it sucks but the poor guy can't spend all his time on the forums.
As far as the gore content went, it was just a disgruntled child that didn't really understand how to effectively shock someone. He thought it was shocking everyone when in reality it was just old pictures from 2000 that everyone had already seen. He spouted some vague reason why he chose hands, but really I don't remember what exactly it was about.
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#12
Posted 17 December 2016 - 01:12 AM
The process works. We haven't seen a case of babaji vd in a while. You weren't here for it, take our word for it. Yes it sucks, but the positive effects outweigh the negative ones. It just takes a while for the community management to get things done.
Of course the process stops spam. How could it not? It takes over a month just to get 5 posts. I would be surprised if there were more than a few new members each month who actually stuck around to post 5. I'll bet a great deal of them give up and leave. Sure the process works to stop spam, but it will also slowly kill the forum. Anyway, I am not really part of this community, but I am just giving my advice as someone who has registered on and posted in countless forums and even moderated a few times. Yes, there were times when forums were hacked, spammed, and trolled - but there is always a solution better than forcing new members to wait a month before being able to post freely. Most of them will lose interest in a game or topic after a month.
Edited by LightningHunter, 17 December 2016 - 01:14 AM.
#13
Posted 17 December 2016 - 07:20 AM
Now, again, the community manager who inspired this hate seems to have moved on, so ideally these extreme measures should be able to be lifted.
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