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Hi. Ive been waiting to have sounds moderated for more than 6 months. Is there something I am doing wrong? Please can I get some help?

I highly doubt your doing something wrong but recently I got moderated and then I uploaded some more yesterday, you need to have some more patient. The moderators are just like you they come onto the site and moderate in there free time so they are probably busy. I am not a moderator so don't ask me to moderate your sounds.

jamesrodavidson wrote:
Hi. Ive been waiting to have sounds moderated for more than 6 months. Is there something I am doing wrong? Please can I get some help?

This would mean something went wrong because sounds NEVER take this long to moderate.
Either the moderator tried to contact you with questions but you did not answer (sometimes moderation emails get classed as spam by email filters).
More likely something went wrong with the files and they never were properly received by the system - meaning moderators never saw them.

I will ask the support team to have a look and see if there are any records of failed uploads or any "lost files" from you.
Might also be worth it trying to re-upload.

By the way: at the moment there are ZERO files in the moderation queue. So you will probably get moderated very quick.

Probably in these cases the issue was that the emails containing links to the 'ticket' pages with request for more details did not reach the author.

The original poster has been contacted.

@AlienXXX How is there ZERO sounds waiting for moderation, I uploaded 4 sounds yesterday and they are still waiting for moderation.

18hiltc wrote:
@AlienXXX How is there ZERO sounds waiting for moderation, I uploaded 4 sounds yesterday and they are still waiting for moderation.

Well considering your track record they probably failed to process, or are stuck in limbo.

I can confirm that indeed there are 0.0000 sounds in the moderation queue at the time of my posting this reply Mon 13th January 11:33pm GMT.

Sorry about that literally like a few minutes after I posted that I got moderated. I was just surprised because AlienXXX said there were none waiting in the quota for moderation when I uploaded mine and they didn't get moderated.

In case users are curious about the moderation process, check out http://www.freesound.org/help/moderators/

short piece of info: there is a "public moderation queue" or "pool", from which moderators pick and say "I will take care of this user's sounds" and after that they are on one specific moderator's "moderation queue", where they remain until the moderator says "this can go online!"

18hiltc's sound was in the pool until a few minutes ago but that as a reaction to this thread I moderated the sounds and now they are approved.

Thanks

qubodup wrote:
they remain until the moderator says "this can go online!"

Or they say "nope, I don't want this - this can go back to the pool"

"Это мой звук. Я сделал это с помощью протезов моей бабушки. Наслаждайтесь!"

;-D

Headphaze wrote:
Or they say "nope, I don't want this - this can go back to the pool"

copyc4t wrote:
...starting the infamous "pool loop"

Well that only happens if someone decides to upload a file described in Ancient Sumerian

Yah I hope I am not the only one who couldn't read that last part of that one message :/

18hiltc wrote:
Yah I hope I am not the only one who couldn't read that last part of that one message :/

And which message would you be referring to?

Headphaze wrote:

qubodup wrote:
they remain until the moderator says "this can go online!"

Or they say "nope, I don't want this - this can go back to the pool"

"Это мой звук. Я сделал это с помощью протезов моей бабушки. Наслаждайтесь!"

;-D

This one, sorry for not being specific lol

Oh, that's Russian. Its basically a hypothetical sound description I typed up. Try using google translate to see the humour

lol, I didn't know you spoke Russian and I might do just that when I get out of school :/

18hiltc wrote:
lol, I didn't know you spoke Russian and I might do just that when I get out of school :/

yes I do - Привет ВЪ

Anyway, lets not derail another thread here.

lol, agree

Is it possible my sound is not in the pending pile? I uploaded a sound on January 20th, but it still says it's pending moderation. I thought I'd give it a little wait, considering moderators have other things to do, but I read you were up to speed a week before upload.

Thanks for any reply