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Strange Approve/Disapprove Message (Email)

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Was going to private message this but it didn't work :(

So I was browsing through the updates section of my email account and noticed something incredibly strange,It's about my first post.
After you have made your first post it has to be approved by a moderator, hence why I am sending this to you, before being shown on the forum.
When it has either been approved or disapproved, you an email informing you of this.
The strange thing is, for my first post, I got both an approved and disapproved message sent to me on the same day.
The reason of my disapproval had been something along the lines of: "The message contains links to illegal or pirated software."
Now, my message contained an image of Mr Bean, an old British comedy character, that had been turned into a meme.
I don't know why this message would have contained "links to illegal or pirated software", but it seems to appear that way according to the email.
What the even stranger thing is, that immediately after, I got an email saying that my post : " was approved by a moderator or administrator."
Why did this happen? :?
Can you please provide an explanation.

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EDIT: viewtopic.php?f=19&t=22170&p=294973&e=294973
That is the post that this is about
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What probably happened is you did a double post (a significant part of our first posters post twice, thinking their first post just got lost).
What we usually do is approve one and either disapprove or delete the other.

The fact is that the default value in disapprobation dropdown menu was at that time "the illegal or pirated software" iirc.
Guess what :)

That's a guess, but I think it's quite likely.
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I never posted so quickly though.
I think I waited a day before making my second post.
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Moderator log says that is what happened, at 08 Jul 2017, 01:31 UTC+1 one post in that topic got disapproved for illegal/pirate links (the default reason) which was directly followed by an approved post in the same thread. As Koub said it happens quite often for first time posters to post twice, they overlook that it says it needs to be approved and they submit the post a second time.

Actually, you might also have a third e-mail for approval of your Yogscast thread, which was approved 3 hours earlier.
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Actually, you might also have a third e-mail for approval of your Yogscast thread, which was approved 3 hours earlier.
I don't appear to have got that email.
Aside from that, I am getting notifications from every reply I get on a topic, so at least that is working.
A bit of a pain though, they are filling up my free google storage. :D
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olafthecat wrote:they are filling up my free google storage. :D
Well the forums mails are like 1 kB in size. So it will take a while to fill those 15 GB.
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Kajanor wrote:
olafthecat wrote:they are filling up my free google storage. :D
Well the forums mails are like 1 kB in size. So it will take a while to fill those 15 GB.
Also, you can turn them off.
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I know, but I am too lazy! :D
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olafthecat wrote:I know, but I am too lazy! :D
...but not too lazy to complain about it, apparently :roll: ;) .
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I'm may be complaining about it, but it can be useful.
For example, it contains a link to the topic that was posted on.
A good way of keeping track of them.
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