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Why are the user comments for news posts on the main page of this website subject to review prior to going up? It seems rather silly to be censoring there and not in the forum when it too is available from the main page via the recent posts sidebar.

I ask because I tried to post a comment to the latest news post announcing the release of GalCiv 2 and my post has never been put up. Incedently, my post basicaly amounted to me saying "there's no new game info in those links " (complete with frowny face) which as far as I can tell from the post, is completely true (by game info I mean info on stuff in the game). It certainly wasnt said in any type of inflamatory or insulting manor and was really just a simple comment. I'm really wondering why this post was rejected from the comments section. Perhaps there's a really long backlog on the comments?
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Oh, hey skam!

Your comment actually went up this morning as a news item, not as a comment to a news item. It got deleted, since news items should only be able created by Stardock people.

It's not that we moderate, it was that there was a bug in the webpage UI that needed to be fix. You actually helped us find a bug, so thanks!

But you're free to create new forum posts here (as you already know, since you made one here), so hopefully theres no hard feelings

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
Thanks for the quick update and the info. Deffinitly no hard feelings, I was just really looking for info.

Not that it's a big deal but I think you misunderstood what i was saying about my comment by the way. I posted a comment to the news post announcing the galciv2 release. This comment stated that i was disapointed by the fact that none of the links in the news post lead to any content that is new (not bitter disapointed, more sad). I don't think that was a news Item on the main page
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Yea actually you saved our behind, Skam.

Talk about a huge hole, the new forum code made it possible for anyone to make a news item.  Imagine how THAT could have been abused.

Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Ah, actually I'm the one who misunderstood. I just misread your post. That's pretty hilarious that my comment went up on the main page.

Glad I could help before some one else figured that out and maliciously used that security hole though.

I wish I had known what I was doing so I could have written something clever