Ever since the creation of this forum we have relied on a system of approval, where every thread and post in any of the "Tutorial" subforums had to be approved by a moderator or admin first.
This is to prevent the forum being flooded by questions that have been asked already a few times, so the really vial information doesn't get lost in a heap of spam.
It is quite some work for us to keep this up since every post in these subforums has to be approved by hand and although we might switch this system off once the forum has reached more popularity and activity (simply because it would be too much posts to handle) it will stay running for quite some while still.
Having seen a few unapproved double posts where people just wrote barely the same stuff I decided to write this thread to remind people of this system, so they don't leave frustrated because their posts won't show.
Within the rules there is a section for this system, but we forgot to clearly mention that posts are affected by the approval too, I apologize for this mishap and the rules have been changed to now state that posts/replies are affected as well.
This mentioned section is 3.2. (
faq.php#f2r1 )
Although it is only
In case you have any suggestions according to the approval system, leave your comments in this thread to ensure maximum usability of this forum.
Update: Zax is currently working on changing the system so it affects new thread posts only and no replies.
