Uberdude wrote:OP's quickness to anger/frustration seems to have come in part from the incorrect assumption that a human moderator saw and read his post and deemed it pending for approval, rather than the reality that all posts from new users are automatically placed in the pending approval state before any human reads them as an anti-spam measure. Can we alter the automated message to make this and expected timescale clearer?
This is tiresome in the extreme, but there was no mistaken assumption, and I wish a moderator would step in and clarify this. After submitting my original post half a day went by, while I patiently waited, for it to be seen and approved by a human (not a bot). That was entirely as I expected. It was posted on the morning of a weekday, and I didn't expect there to be anyone at the switch anxiously waiting to approve new memer posts. When I saw the error that later occurred when the post was approved in the evening - and the site gives no instructions or indication of restrictions on posting photos - I posted a reply to my own post within minutes of it appearing to apologise to people, and this was approved by a human minutes after that - because he was still "on duty". But this post was approved without noticing what my reply to my own post was about.
What I got in return for my effort was smarmy sarcasm and ridicule - yes, instantaneous, because the bozo who first did this, in Germany, was in bed when all of the above happened, and he posted his little bit of humour first thing out of bed in the morning. Then, in his non-apology a day later, he asked me such penetrating and prescient questions, a.k.a. new insults, as "new to the Internet?"
I made a mistake - that of stumbling into this den in the first place. In my experience they are places of inbreeding and stupidity, especially if they involvce such narcissistic and socially maladjusted people (these are the top five of such, in my experience) as go/chess nerds, bicycle racers, musicians and theatre actors.
Enjoy your folding plywood "gobans".