Moderator's own content being moderated as "newbie"?

[Jocelyn_Dart]

Folks,

I just posted a comment on a document and was given the message: Your comment will be reviewed by a moderator before being added. Your content is being moderated because your points level indicates that you are new to posting on SCN. Keep participating and creating quality content to move out of moderation status. Visit SCN Support for more information or if you think that you have received this message in error. Thank you for participating on SCN!

Now folks, the person who wrote the blog might be a newbie (he's certainly not very current) but I'm not only at Topaz level but also  moderator of that space?!

So now being asked to moderate my own content?!

Dare I suggest that there may be a little logic bug somewhere that needs fixing please?

Original post is here:

Rgds,

Jocelyn 

[hardyp180 · Accepted solution]

I quite agree with not divulging what the text patterns being searched for are, becuase as you say people will quickly learn to work around them.

I will never agree with sending out a totally false error message i.e. "you do not have enough points" to Jocelyn who as I recall has something like ten billion points.

This is rather like the error message in SAP where you are in a production order and choose "documentated goods movements" and get the error as follows:-

"either you are not authorised OR there is no data"

Well, which one is it? The program would no, it has done both an authority check and an SQL seelcet and knows the results of both. Not having a seperate message when the authority check fails is sheer laziness, a result of not taking pride in ones works, orto be more charitable more likely being forced by the powers that be to shovel out sub-standard code as fast as you can.

In this case would it be a radical idea that, if someone did not have enough points, tell them, and if the content had triggered some of sort of pattern detection error, don't say what the pattern is, but something like "the content in your blog / question / reply required moderator approval"?

As a test, to see if this reply gets flagged as needing moderator approval, I am going to end the post with two words which in my opinion when detected by the system should trigger an automatic block if used in a blog post.

"Hi Gurus"

[keohanster · Accepted solution]

I've had a blog go into moderator approval last week - and was surprised - but all I really have to say about that is

Please reward points if useful