[Observer]

I can’t see user profiles when I’m logged in, not even my own. Am I doing something wrong? The website tells me that I don’t have permission.

[ohiophil]

Permissions open up after a few posts.

[hesteralumni23]

H good to know!!!!

[maxi..anne]

My profile comes up as Tara Anne

[masklofumanto]

Over the last few years, there have been some inexplicable, weird quirks on this site. For example, sometimes I've noticed that when you click to go to a certain member's profile, you end up at another member's profile. It might be in cases where somebody registered with two or more user IDs, but I don't know for sure. Some of the quirks are very frustrating.

[Brock67]

Sometimes when I post something it accepts it right away. Sometimes it says a moderator needs to review it first. There does not seem to be any rhyme or reason behind which way it will be.

I just read in another thread that there is nothing to indicate to a moderator that a post is awaiting approval. Perhaps we need a thread somewhere to flag when this happens? I might have one or two, myself, hung up in the queue.

[Brock67]

Well, there just went another one up for review to the moderator.

This is why I am a little skeptical of the drive towards artificial intelligence in computers. It just never quite works out the way you think it's been set up to operate.

[masklofumanto]

I'll take a look at what needs approval.

"A little skeptical"? I strongly doubt that even if artificial intelligence is achieved that it would be the same as human intelligence.

[Brock67]

I haven't posted enough to test it, but my experience has been that responding by clicking quote or quick reply to another post is more likely to generate a "moderator needs to approve it first" response. Selecting Post Reply doesn't seem to cause it as often as these other ways or posting. But this might just be a case of being fooled by randomness.

I tried to create a new thread and got the "moderator needs to approve first", too.

Post Reply seems to be the method that works best. But maybe it is the web browser interfering in some way. I don't know enough about the details to really say what causes this. Could be a lot of things going on here.

[masklofumanto]

More than a few things here do not function properly.