# The Dreaded Moderation Queue

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-dreaded-moderation-queue/61520>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [February 19, 2011, 2:22am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-dreaded-moderation-queue/61520 "2011-02-19T02:22:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![PoodleShooter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@PoodleShooter](https://community.cartalk.com/u/PoodleShooter)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2011, 2:22am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-dreaded-moderation-queue/61520/1 "2011-02-19T02:22:15Z")

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A place to post your posts that have been “removed to the moderation queue.”

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**Author:** ![PoodleShooter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@PoodleShooter](https://community.cartalk.com/u/PoodleShooter)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2011, 2:26am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-dreaded-moderation-queue/61520/2 "2011-02-19T02:26:31Z")

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"Bad form to use the phrase “spot on” in reference to oneself, old man.

My money is on NOT a turbo. It would have been a selling point when the OP bought the car, and the dealer would have noticed it; kind of hard not to, eh what?"

I can only guess that the moderator/ess didn’t realize that like “spot on” “old man” is a Britishism.

Up City!

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**Author:** ![waterboy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/waterboy/32/764_2.png) [@waterboy](https://community.cartalk.com/u/waterboy)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2011, 3:14am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-dreaded-moderation-queue/61520/3 "2011-02-19T03:14:38Z")

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If more people really understood what you are saying, they might respond. I don’t get your post or reply. spot on old man Britishism.

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**Author:** ![Caddyman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/caddyman/32/23_2.png) [@Caddyman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Caddyman)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2011, 4:16am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-dreaded-moderation-queue/61520/4 "2011-02-19T04:16:56Z")

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See that little red flag down in the right-hand corner? If enough people click it your post is deleted. It’s all automatic, no humans involved…That’s the “Moderation Queue”. Once your post is gone, it’s not coming back…

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**Author:** ![meanjoe75fan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/meanjoe75fan/32/552_2.png) [@meanjoe75fan](https://community.cartalk.com/u/meanjoe75fan)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2011, 5:05am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-dreaded-moderation-queue/61520/5 "2011-02-19T05:05:28Z")

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But threads DO get eliminated by humans as well.

I mean, there was a thread in “distracted driving,” about a woman who wrecked while shaving a rather intimate part of her anatomy. “I” figured the juxtoposition of driving safety and shaving hygeine called for an impromptu “Burma-shave” poem…that got nixed _immediately._

Since the only “adult” word was omitted (implyed by a rhyme), I don’t think a computer would catch it. I also think It’d take time for enough “flags” to accumulate. It’d be like typing “Beans, beans, good for the heart/” and having your post removed due to violation of an “anti-flatulance” rule–computers ain’t that smart yet.

So, yes, there seems to be some human input.