What's with all the over-moderation in answers.splunk.com lately?

[woodcock]

Every couple of days things go into a heavily-moderated mode where every question I answer or edit says this when I save:

Your answer was submitted, and will be reviewed by a moderator before being visible to all users.

Is this just for me or is anybody else seeing it? Is this a throttle in response to the frequent successful Spam attacks or what? It seems to last for part of a day and then stop; I can't find any pattern to it.

[acharlieh · Accepted solution]

As the spammers have been adapting, the administrators have been attempting to adjust the spam filtering accordingly, and have been working with the company who runs the site to implement newer and better spam blocking features.

With adjustments to the filters, sometimes they are too broad and this means legitimate posts land in the moderation queue. Which only means that you just need to wait a little bit for a moderator (most are on US schedules) to fish it out and click publish.

There are already features requested of developers for whitelisting based on karma, and other more advanced filters, but in the meantime, I'd just have a little patience, and make sure you thank the people who are working hard against the spam tide (many of whom are volunteers themselves).

[alacercogitatus]

Additionally, I've notice some of my things heading into moderation only when there is an ongoing spam wave. So something in the backend might be triggered and get more aggressive during an active wave of spam.