Title: held for moderation
Last modified: August 19, 2018

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# held for moderation

 *  Resolved [wpsolutions](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpsolutions/)
 * (@wpsolutions)
 * [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/held-for-moderation/)
 * Hi guys,
    Since yesterday, I noticed every post I make in the forums is now saying
   the following:
 * “This post has been held for moderation by our automated system and will be manually
   reviewed by a moderator”
 * I am the author of a fairly popular plugin (All In One WP Security) and this 
   delay which is produced by the “moderation” step is causing a big inconvenience
   for me and my plugin’s users.
    Actually every post I make on the forums is to
   basically help people or ask a relevant question and I never spam. So I’m wondering
   why this is happening on my account when I haven’t done anything wrong?

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 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/held-for-moderation/#post-10603751)
 * [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recaptcha-cannot-read-property-secret-of-null/?view=all#post-10599351](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recaptcha-cannot-read-property-secret-of-null/?view=all#post-10599351)
 * That topic was being piled on by other users of the plugin, which we don’t allow.
   Jan raised this with those users at the time, but people continued to pile onto
   that topic and those people were flagged.
    -  This reply was modified 7 years, 9 months ago by [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/).
 *  Thread Starter [wpsolutions](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpsolutions/)
 * (@wpsolutions)
 * [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/held-for-moderation/#post-10603766)
 * Hi Andrew,
    Ok I understand your point but I wasn’t aware that I was piling on
   the topic. At the time however I did get an email stating:
 * “If you need support then per the forum guidelines please start your own topic.”
 * And later on I did actually raise my own topic.
    I really can’t see why my fairly
   benign actions would warrant me to be marked for “moderation” for every post 
   I do. What do I need to do to take my account out of such a state?
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/held-for-moderation/#post-10603774)
 * Just listen to us when we give advice. If you honestly didn’t read the advice
   then I recommend that you read all the replies in a thread that you are contributing
   to.
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/held-for-moderation/#post-10603777)
 * I’ve unflagged your account
 *  Thread Starter [wpsolutions](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpsolutions/)
 * (@wpsolutions)
 * [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/held-for-moderation/#post-10603785)
 * Thanks Andrew.
 * > Just listen to us when we give advice.
 * Yes of course and that’s what I did do.
    I’m still rather perplexed about the
   reason for getting flagged but at least my account is now back to normal. Thanks
   again!
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/held-for-moderation/#post-10603795)
 * I’ll look at improving the moderation guidelines
 *  Thread Starter [wpsolutions](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpsolutions/)
 * (@wpsolutions)
 * [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/held-for-moderation/#post-10603809)
 * I just looked at the guidelines again and they look fairly clear and as far as
   I could tell I believe I followed them at the time.
    However, I think where the
   misunderstanding occurred was when I first submitted my post I decided that I
   needed to modify it but then when I tried to do that I noticed that the post 
   was missing. My initial thoughts were that maybe there was an issue with my browser
   and the first submission never got through so I submitted it again. Then quite
   some time later I saw the email from the moderator. If I had seen that email 
   immediately after my first post I would not have re-submitted again. Maybe moderators
   should reply directly in the thread instead of emailing people because someone
   might not see the email immediately. Thanks again.

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 * Last reply from: [wpsolutions](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpsolutions/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/held-for-moderation/#post-10603809)
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