Some new content is held until somebody approves it: a moderator, the owner of the app it is filed under, or the owner of the item it was written on. A held post is saved and visible to you, its author, but to nobody else until it is approved. When you post something that is held, the site says Submitted for approval rather than leaving you to wonder where it went.
What can be held
| What | Held by |
|---|---|
| A new app on the TMC Gaming Platform | The site, by default. An app gets its own top-level address, so it is looked at first. |
| Assets, mods, servers, communities, collections, groups | The site, or the app the item is filed under. |
| Comments, reviews, gallery uploads, bug reports and replies, feedback, discussion posts, questions | The site, the app, or the owner of the item they are written on — a perk of the item owner’s role (Supporter and above). |
| Releases | Game releases on apps that review them, and any release carrying a dangerous file (below). |
Edits to something already published are not held again, and nobody is held by their own app or item: an owner never waits for themselves, and moderators are never held.
Who decides
A request can need one or both of two sides:
- The moderators, when the site’s own policy holds it, when the app it belongs to has no owner, or when a file matched the site-wide dangerous list.
- The owner of the app or item whose policy held it. Anybody who can edit that app or item can decide for it.
A moderator’s approval covers both sides, so a moderator can push anything through. An owner’s approval covers only the owner’s side. Either side rejecting rejects the request, and the author is told why.
Dangerous files
Executables and other risky file types can be listed — once for the whole site, and separately per app. A release carrying one is held instead of refused, and every part of a file name counts (setup.exe.txt is an executable), including the files inside an archive once it has been indexed. A file on the site-wide list needs a moderator; a file on an app’s own list needs that app’s owner (or a moderator, if the app has none).
Where you see it
- Your approvals (
/approvals): what is waiting for you to review, what you submitted and where it stands, and your settings — which kinds of content your apps and your items hold. - Moderation → Approvals: the moderators’ queue and the site-wide policy, beside the other moderation queues.
- A held item’s own page shows a banner with Approve and Reject to whoever can decide it, and held comments and reviews are marked Not public for their author.
Every decision is in the moderation log, and the author gets a notification either way.