Note that the very first time you post you have to be approved manually, as part of our ‘deal with spam’ plan. Afterwards, it’ll still be a few hours before a mod will reliably have decided whether to frontpage your post, but it’ll at least show up reliably on /allPosts, personal-blog-enabled-frontpages, and in recent discussion.
(We’re also planning to make a change where, once we’ve moved something to frontpage, it’s “bumped” to the front of the frontpage a second time, so days where it ends up taking awhile before a mod reviews the frontpage queue, you won’t be at a disadvantage in terms of frontpage-eyeballs, although this unfortunately isn’t true yet)
What’s the typical timeline for a post to be approved by the moderators? I’d just like to know so I can plan accordingly.
It’s generally a few hours on average.
Note that the very first time you post you have to be approved manually, as part of our ‘deal with spam’ plan. Afterwards, it’ll still be a few hours before a mod will reliably have decided whether to frontpage your post, but it’ll at least show up reliably on /allPosts, personal-blog-enabled-frontpages, and in recent discussion.
(We’re also planning to make a change where, once we’ve moved something to frontpage, it’s “bumped” to the front of the frontpage a second time, so days where it ends up taking awhile before a mod reviews the frontpage queue, you won’t be at a disadvantage in terms of frontpage-eyeballs, although this unfortunately isn’t true yet)