Help requested from moderators please

[Kaz]

Can you please tell me how long it takes to moderate replies on these forums?

Also, some guidelines on 'trigger' words might be useful as sometimes my replies appear instantly and others go to the mods. I'd like to know which words I should avoid using so that my replies, some of which I put quite a lot of time and effort into, don't just disappear into an abyss.

I wouldn't mind betting that because I've used the word 'trigger' in this message that it'll go the same way

Please help.

[Kaz]

Having just been on the Buying Property Abroad forum and seeing some of the rubbish on it that has absolutely nothing to do with the House Exchange in Spain thread, I realise that Brian is probably away at the moment which would explain why I'm not getting any response to my queries.

I'm reasonably new to this forum site and if Brian is the only moderator, I'm not surprised that it sometimes seems a bit like a ghost-town. Sometimes you can almost hear the tumbleweed rolling across the screen!

[brian]

Yes indeed - been incredibly busy but back now.

Apologies for the delay - have approved your moderated posts, and clearing out the botspam and blacklisting their IP's - also changed the security settings for registration, which should also hopefully help in future.

[Kaz]

Thank you Brian

Sorry about the comments but I didn't know that you are the only moderator. Anyway, now that I do, I won't be so impatient in future

I do think that this is potentially a really good forum site but it is a bit frustrating when you are new to it and don't know what's happened to your postings. I fear that a lot of people would just give up and go elsewhere.

Regards.

Kaz

[brian]

It's not a problem at all - everytime I think I may have 5 minutes spare time, something else jumps up - had a major site hit by a DDoS last week, and continued on and off for 4 days so had to buy a new server and am currently moving the site there. Lots of fun!