# Are threads ever held for moderator review before they are posted? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 12, 2019, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-threads-ever-held-for-moderator-review-before-they-are-posted/840090 "2019-09-12T03:38:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Annoyed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f04885/32.png) [@Annoyed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annoyed)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-threads-ever-held-for-moderator-review-before-they-are-posted/840090/21 "2019-09-12T16:19:15Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Not here, but **Monty** called him one in the Pit, which I doubt is gonna get enforced, since almost anything goes in there. > > [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21856008&postcount=603](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21856008&postcount=603) The big meanie has done it several times. I’ll be scarred for life. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-threads-ever-held-for-moderator-review-before-they-are-posted/840090/22 "2019-09-12T18:14:12Z")
> [@engineer\_comp\_geek](#): > > I was thinking more Spruce Goose than Captain America. > > Sen. Ralph Owen Brewster: …we would like him to reappear. Would you ask him to return? > Howard Hughes: No, I don’t think I will. > Sen. Ralph Owen Brewster: Will you try to have him return? > Howard Hughes: No, I don’t think I’ll try. > Sen. Ralph Owen Brewster: You don’t think you’ll try? > Howard Hughes: No, I don’t think so. Thanks! I’m much better on Monty Python than I am The Aviator (?). ---
**Author:** ![Bone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bone/32/407_2.png) [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-threads-ever-held-for-moderator-review-before-they-are-posted/840090/23 "2019-09-12T18:19:48Z")
I didn’t get the Aviator reference at all! ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-threads-ever-held-for-moderator-review-before-they-are-posted/840090/24 "2019-09-12T19:13:08Z")
> [@Bone](#): > > I didn’t get the Aviator reference at all! It was a 2004 film about Hughes, starring Leonardo DiCaprio. I had to Google it, like most people I forgot it ever existed even though it was nominated for 11 Oscars and won 5. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-threads-ever-held-for-moderator-review-before-they-are-posted/840090/25 "2019-09-13T15:55:37Z")
Seriously guys. Don’t remember _The Aviator_? It’s the wave of the future! ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-threads-ever-held-for-moderator-review-before-they-are-posted/840090/26 "2019-09-13T16:51:09Z")
**Mods** : as long as you’re reviewing threads before they post, would it be a big imposition to ask one of you to do a quick check on my spelling, grammar, and syntax? Thx. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-threads-ever-held-for-moderator-review-before-they-are-posted/840090/27 "2019-09-13T17:28:15Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > **Mods** : as long as you’re reviewing threads before they post, would it be a big imposition to ask one of you to do a quick check on my spelling, grammar, and syntax? Thx. Also, make my jokes funnier. Maybe turn the wittiness knob up a few notches. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-threads-ever-held-for-moderator-review-before-they-are-posted/840090/28 "2019-09-13T17:31:10Z")
Double-check my links, make sure I read past the headline. That would be cool, kthxbai! ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-threads-ever-held-for-moderator-review-before-they-are-posted/840090/29 "2019-09-13T18:22:05Z")
I’m an engineer. Do you really want an engineer to review your posts for spelling and grammar errors? (for those who aren’t aware, engineers are notorious for bad spelling and grammar) ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-threads-ever-held-for-moderator-review-before-they-are-posted/840090/30 "2019-09-13T19:10:12Z")
> [@engineer\_comp\_geek](#): > > I’m an engineer. Do you really want an engineer to review your posts for spelling and grammar errors? If you can keep that enormous iron horse rolling down the tracks, then your spelling and grammar is good enough for me. ETA: I’d now like to suggest this thread be closed, as it’s run off the rails. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-threads-ever-held-for-moderator-review-before-they-are-posted/840090/31 "2019-09-13T19:27:21Z")
Huh, I don’t think I’ve ever seen one of those flagged threads that wasn’t actually spam. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2019, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-threads-ever-held-for-moderator-review-before-they-are-posted/840090/32 "2019-09-14T08:25:59Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Huh, I don’t think I’ve ever seen one of those flagged threads that wasn’t actually spam. IIRC a couple have come up in passing here in ATMB; details escape me. But I was aware it could happen and sometimes did; I even have some vague memory of the explanation. I think that what may have added fuel to the dire so to speak, at least in the Pit thread mentions, was that **Annoyed** didn’t know his thread had gone live. If this was the first time it happened or the umpteenth I don’t know. But that is where things started to get ----- not nasty by Pit standards but a little on the cringe side for some of us. While you are worked ten times harder than your pay grade ( 🙂 ) dictates it may not be a bad idea to shoot a PM to the OPs in such cases letting them know that said thread has indeed gone live. It could help in various ways so threads don’t look to be abandoned by their creators. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2019, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-threads-ever-held-for-moderator-review-before-they-are-posted/840090/33 "2019-09-14T15:51:44Z")
It’s a rare enough occurrence that whichever moderator approved it probably didn’t even realize that the OP wouldn’t be automatically notified. Now we know, so when it happens again mumblety-many years in the future, a PM probably would be a good idea. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-threads-ever-held-for-moderator-review-before-they-are-posted/840090.md?page=1)