Why do the mods have to accept each post?

[Poppet]

For newbies, of course.
Yeah, I read the moderation post thing on the page when I log in. It says;
"This happens to all new members until we see that you are ready to post on your own"

What does that mean? It's not that hard to post a message..
And your post doesn't show up till a mod has approved it, which might take hours.

[Deputy Chirpy]

They probably want to make sure your not going to use profanity or spam a lot while you are posting, so they have to aprove your first posts to see that you are not going to spam the forums.

[Kit T. Kat]

It was here because there were people who registered and posted bad things

[Dizzy]

Our site carries a G-rating. Often people don't read our policies to realize this. Our members are moderated for 3-4 weeks after their membership to protect our G-rating. If, during the time that someone is in moderation, it is apparent that they have troubles posting with our g-rating in mind, we can educate them on where to find our policies and help answer questions for them. This moderation period helps us monitor their posting practices.

Also, because we are such a large fansite, we get a lot of registrations for people that don't even play Toontown and they simply want to advertise something. This moderation period *usually* protects you, the member, from seeing these posts. Most often, advertisers will post these things within the first 3-4 weeks or not at all. We rarely have someone post advertisements past this 3-4 week period.

[Poppet]

Oh, I see. Yeah, I was just thinking after I posted this, that you have to look at posts to see that there's no trolls or anything.
Thanks guys. =)

[Dizzy]

Something I forgot to mention is that it usually shouldn't take "hours" for your post to show up. We have an excellent mod staff and things are usually approved/denied within an hour of posting them. We are all volunteers so please bear with us if it is taking unusually long, especially at this time of year that many of us have kids home from school and family visiting.

[Coolchewbaca]

Sometimes people register accounts and use bots to post spam or bad things. Accepting each post is a good idea imo

[Skooter93]

They probably want to just make sure you aren't going to post inappropriate things all over the place...

[Batleth]

We know it's a pain for newer users, but it's an incredibly helpful tool for us mods and saves us tons of time in the long run. TTC is really a quite large forum and we can't be everywhere. This allows us to help guide some newer users having problems or even weed out the unwanted from even bugging everyone else here. Everyone may not like it, but it's far too useful for us. I seriously doubt we'll be changing this any time soon.

[Evil Kid John]

strange it only took me 2/5 days before i could post on my own hmm.......

[Batleth]

Originally Posted by Evil Kid John

strange it only took me 2/5 days before i could post on my own hmm.......

It does vary some. If I see a lot of posts by the same user in queue and they look fine, sometimes I'll go ahead and make them not moderated anymore. Or may be a case like xmas, I shortened the length to 2-3 instead of 3-4 weeks since I knew more people would be off school and work to help cut down the work load on the mods.