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Originally Posted by MarkFL

Are you by chance using my automated post reporter product, that puts posts/threads into the moderation queue automatically, if a user posts certain flagged words, or necro-posts?

The reason I ask is that I do get the behavior you describe with that product (which is by design), and what I can do is incorporate this feature (allowing users to see/edit their own moderated posts) into the automated post reporter, and then if you elect to allow users to see/edit their own moderated posts, I can turn off the error message.

The automated post reporter product is in need of an overhaul as it was the first product I wrote, and so look for an upgrade including this feature at some point (I don't want to give any kind of timeline at this point).

I can confirm that it's due to another modification which moderates based upon keywords (in my case it's Glowhost's Spam-o-matic). Sounds like your product does the same thing. I always found it better to moderate based upon keywords rather than having an entire board's threads/posts go into moderation via vbulletin's settings. I mean who has time to do all that approving? So I used glowhost's spam-o-matic to only look for spam keywords in order to put posts/threads into moderation and when I tested your updated product by entering a bad keyword and it still gave me that annoying "Your post will not be visible until a moderator has approved it for posting" popup, and even further it wouldn't let me edit the post after I did a manual refresh.

I'd gladly switch to your post reporter product when you update it to work with allowing users to see and edit their own moderated posts/threads without getting that annoying popup about needing a moderator approval first. To me it just seems better for members not to see that popup since it only annoys them. It's better that when they post something that is moderated that the post/thread appears and is editable as if nothing is wrong. While in the background moderators efficiently approve the post/threads without the user being none the wiser that it was moderated to begin with. It'll also cut down on members making duplicate posts/threads to bypass the moderation.