An idea about the posts moderators have unblocked from the spam filter, can they be put on top of the new queue?

So the trouble is my posts sometimes end up getting caught in the spam filter. The usual thing to do is to message the moderators and they can unblock the posts. But as you know the moderators are busy and it takes some time, which is understandable.

However the problem is that once the posts are unblocked they are usually already a couple of hours old and when you post to a more popular reddit these old posts get buried under a ton of new posts in the new queue, so they don't even get noticed.

So the idea is to put this unblocked posts to the top of the new queue, so they might get an equal change as other posts at being noticed. Or if that would require too much work one possibility is to reset the post date, so it looks like it has just been posted and would therefore be automatically added to the top of the new queue.

I think it's a nice idea that would ease some of the frustrations users have with the spam filter and it would put the pressure off the moderators to respond ASAP.

What are your thoughts about this?

EDIT: Just found that this (the second part about resetting the date) has been suggested before, but it doesn't hurt to bring a bit more attention to it :)

Posted Nov 15, 2010, 10:28 AM UTC · edited

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