I’m talking about that message that comes up right after you submit a post.
Here it is, in all its confusing detail,
"Thank you for posting CnoteChris. You will be taken to your post. If the Administrator has selected to moderate all posts in this forum, you will be taken back to the forum and your post will be displayed presently."
What the hell does that mean?
Where would I be headed if the Administrator decided not to moderate this board? Porn.com?
That’d be nice, but hey, where else am I headed? Of course I’m going back to where I posted. Right?
Is that the most confusing thing I’ve read yet? Or is my own writing style growing so much on me, that I find perfect grammar completely incomprehensible?
Seems obvious and logical to me. You’ll be taken to your post at the end of the thread, unless the mods have decided to review each post before tacking it onto the thread (which I don’t think they ever do), and if they did do that, you’ll get taken to the forum you were posting in, and your post will appear by and by.
I believe that vBulletin has a feature that would allow us view and edit posts before they’re displayed, but that function is always turned off on the SDMB. If it were turned on, I suspect you’d be taken back to the thread sans your post, or to the forum. You might learn more about it if you poke around at The vBulletin forum, http://www.vbulletin.com/forum
CnoteChris, I think your confusion was generated by the use of the word “presently”, which some people interpret as “right away”, but which really means something more like “pretty soon, but right now”.
The message, I’m guessing, is given so that you don’t end up double-posting when you get back to the thread and find that your post isn’t there yet.
-Sue
