Moved topics disappearing?

This one was hidden by the forum's automated spam detection system.

It seems to work like this:

  1. Forum member publishes a post and it becomes visible to everyone.
  2. The post is submitted by the forum software to the "Akismet" spam detection service.
  3. Akismet reports back that the post looks like spam.
  4. The forum software hides the post from public view.
  5. The forum software submits a flag for the moderators to review the automated action.
  6. The moderators see it was a false positive and reject the flag.
  7. The forum software restores the post to public visibility.

So there is this somewhat odd situation where the post is visible for a short time before seeming to disappear for the non-staff users who can't see it.

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