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RichardB posted an update 3 years, 1 month ago
The other day when I tried to submit a new topic in the forums I got ‘This topic is waiting for moderation.’ Either there’s been a change of policy (though I haven’t seen any notice of that) or it was a software glitch. The fact that, over a week later, the topic still hasn’t appeared, neither have I received any message about it, suggests to me that it was the latter. Can anybody enlighten me?
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Sorry Richard, I meant to pass this on to @athelstone and @jillybean when you mentioned it the other day. I’m pretty sure it’s a glitch, but could the mods elaborate?
Sorry, Richard, definitely a glitch although I have no idea why. I have no “list” or notification of anything waiting for approval, but as approving is something I can do, I’ve done it. Maybe Jules has some idea.
Help, @athelstone! I tried to edit it and the bloody thing’s vanished again! Argh!
Is it still AWOL? I just managed to read it. Fabulous blog by the way.
Yes, sure enough, it was back to “waiting approval”. Well, I approved it again. And I approve of it.
Thank you. Twice (or maybe thrice) over, that is.
I hope this isn’t a sign of things to come. While I was checking your blog’s status, I spotted two other posts for “approval”. One was from @libby and the other from @raine. Libby, apologies. The post has a date indicating that it was created yesterday, but the number suggests it’s much older. It’s your post on bookshops and the impact of covid. Raine’s post is How this Group Works in Andrew Wille’s DIY MA course. Soz Raine 🙁
No clue why this happened. I suppose if there’s a glitch with the network while you are actually editing or posting, so you appear to be not logged-in, that kind of thing might do it. But that’s a wild guess.
No problem, @athelstone
I thought at the time that as I’d started a new thread, it was waiting for moderation. Then I sort of forgot about it. It was from last year when book wholesalers were hampered by Lockdown 1 and therefore bookshops couldn’t simply order stock in usual way.
As a postscript, ordering from the existing stock of a small bookshop was interesting. One novel turned out to be one of my favourite reads of last year, Slack Tide by Elenor Dymott. Another, Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay, will be my answer if I’m ever asked ‘what book do you think most overrated?’ Though maybe, in fairness, it was only the film which made it a classic.