Most times it's not seen at all. Like most systems, sometimes they get bogged down.

Originally posted by NoLifeDGenerate:

Why does this forum take so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ long to analyze simple text?

Come on already. Sometimes minutes go by before a post/reply is viewable. It's ridiculous. No other forum is so paranoid or annoying about making a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ post. You think people enjoy sitting here refreshing trying to see what someone said for 5 minutes cause the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ post is there but hidden for analysis??? I'd happily turn off the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ nanny filtering to see comments straight off instead of waiting.

Analysis can take a bit longer in some cases when the system is refreshed or has gone down.

Just quote the post that is stuck. Or just be patient.

It will never have an off switch for users since users were the ones that made the analysis required.

Originally posted by NoLifeDGenerate:

I'd happily turn off the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ nanny filtering to see comments straight off instead of waiting.

And that is why it's not an option, it's there to stop bad postings/links.

Blame badly behaving edgelords/phishers/scammers/spammers and so on. They are the reason.

It does seem strange that no other site that suffers from these issues has such an onerous and lengthy text analysis phase of posting. It is like only Valve has ever had this problem and nobody else ever had to deal with it. How weird!

Originally posted by William Shakesman:

It does seem strange that no other site that suffers from these issues has such an onerous and lengthy text analysis phase of posting. It is like only Valve has ever had this problem and nobody else ever had to deal with it. How weird!

Because Steam makes the analysis visible. Other sites would keep it hidden until complete. Many false positives at reddit when I was moderating a few of the subs, users never knew they were being censored.

Originally posted by rawWwRrr:

Originally posted by William Shakesman:

It does seem strange that no other site that suffers from these issues has such an onerous and lengthy text analysis phase of posting. It is like only Valve has ever had this problem and nobody else ever had to deal with it. How weird!

Because Steam makes the analysis visible. Other sites would keep it hidden until complete. Many false positives at reddit when I was moderating a few of the subs, users never knew they were being censored.

Because it's Valve, even transparency is evil because Valve.

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Originally posted by rawWwRrr:

Because Steam makes the analysis visible. Other sites would keep it hidden until complete. Many false positives at reddit when I was moderating a few of the subs, users never knew they were being censored.

Because it's Valve, even transparency is evil because Valve.

:nkCool:

Well I would not go that far to say Valve is evil but more power to you if you feel so strongly.

I stand corrected on the reddit question, as I do not use that site very often. I remember when people used to insist their manipulations were not happening and it was misinformation to claim they were.

Ignoring reddit though, if other sites are hiding the analysis, they hide it so well that it is impossible to detect the lengthy post delays that Steam highlights. The delays are hidden so well that posts are available almost instantly, as if they are not delayed at all.

Originally posted by The End:

Originally posted by NoLifeDGenerate:

I'd happily turn off the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ nanny filtering to see comments straight off instead of waiting.

And that is why it's not an option, it's there to stop bad postings/links.

Blame badly behaving edgelords/phishers/scammers/spammers and so on. They are the reason.

Entertainment for us in the end none the less.

It's even crazier that you can't fix your ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ typos until the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ thing is done analyzing it either. So I'm sitting there refreshing my own post waiting to fix a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ typo. Come the ♥♥♥♥ on.

Originally posted by William Shakesman:

It does seem strange that no other site that suffers from these issues has such an onerous and lengthy text analysis phase of posting. It is like only Valve has ever had this problem and nobody else ever had to deal with it. How weird!

Youtube often hides comments from distribution until they pass the scans, but a lot of bots get around those. Twitter also hides comments for a period of time, potentially forever with shadow bans which affect comment visibility, still same bot problem, especially the keyword trigger bots for "hacked" account recovery.

Valve is a actually weird in how they say the post is under review and allow you to quote it to see what is actually in it.

Originally posted by Deadoon:

Originally posted by William Shakesman:

It does seem strange that no other site that suffers from these issues has such an onerous and lengthy text analysis phase of posting. It is like only Valve has ever had this problem and nobody else ever had to deal with it. How weird!

Youtube often hides comments from distribution until they pass the scans, but a lot of bots get around those. Twitter also hides comments for a period of time, potentially forever with shadow bans which affect comment visibility, still same bot problem, especially the keyword trigger bots for "hacked" account recovery.

Valve is a actually weird in how they say the post is under review and allow you to quote it to see what is actually in it.

and they should be able to tell the difference if the post has links or not a lot ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ faster than it does. Text should be the mods' problem instead of banning people over petty ♥♥♥♥ they should've just blocked each other for.

Originally posted by NoLifeDGenerate:

Originally posted by Deadoon:

Youtube often hides comments from distribution until they pass the scans, but a lot of bots get around those. Twitter also hides comments for a period of time, potentially forever with shadow bans which affect comment visibility, still same bot problem, especially the keyword trigger bots for "hacked" account recovery.

Valve is a actually weird in how they say the post is under review and allow you to quote it to see what is actually in it.

and they should be able to tell the difference if the post has links or not a lot ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ faster than it does. Text should be the mods' problem instead of banning people over petty ♥♥♥♥ they should've just blocked each other for.

Link parsing is also an issue. There are layers to it and sometimes it is weird.

Like in the rimworld forum I had posted a link to the loadfolders.xml documentation wrapped around "loadfolders.xml" and it wouldn't parse it properly unless I put it as "loadfolders xml", despite there being parsed link in the readable text.
Example:
https://rimworldwiki.com/wiki/Modding_Tutorials/Mod_Folder_Structure#LoadFolders.xml_.28Optional.29
loadfolders xml[rimworldwiki.com]

You can see the real forms in quote, but in the readable part of my post they get messed up despite loadfolders.xml not being a parsed as a link itself. So a part of the scripts are detecting "loadfolders.xml" as a url, while others are not. A funny part of this is that visually they wouldn't even really be different because the "." would be easily glossed over by the link underscore, so the space doesn't actually look out of place.

Note the system will take 2 steps

1) The automated system will analyze the post. Note that ALL posts go through this, and you basically never see it 99% of the time

2) if the automated system is unsure of whether to allow or deny the post, it will go into a queue for manual approval