Community Posts Seemingly Disappearing?

Community Posts Seemingly Disappearing?

Originally shared by John Skeats

Why Your Community Posts Might Disappear After You Share Them

A community post you shared might not appear or might seem to disappear shortly after you shared the post for a few reasons. The most likely are:

* The post actually is in the community, but your preference for the sorting of the community is "Top posts" (which is the default) rather than "Most recent.” In that case, the post is not displayed at the top of the community but could be found by scrolling down further down. See https://plus.google.com/+DanielleBuckley/posts/haNr2CwDrpC for further information.

* The community has “Hold for Review” enabled. That's a spam-fighting option which can route new posts in the community to a special queue so that moderators can verify whether the posts are appropriate for before they become visible to the general membership. Note that this is not the same as the post being flagged as potential spam. The Held for Review queue is different from the Likely Spam queue. See https://plus.google.com/+LukeWroblewski/posts/Yqm6Yq821qp for more information.

* The post was flagged by the Google+ spam filters. That can happen after a post has been shared if the spam filters detect that the post is part of a potential spamming incident. See the following posts for further information:
Why Your Community Posts Might Be Flagged As Spam
https://plus.google.com/+JohnSkeats/posts/WrAT1wFBsyz
Understanding Spamming on Google+
https://plus.google.com/+JohnSkeats/posts/fkWCvpvHZZr

* The post was removed from the community by a moderator because the post violated the community's rules. You can recognize when this has happened because the community names at the top of the posts would have a line through them like this: Community Name. This would be unlikely to occur relatively immediately after you shared a post except in extremely tightly moderated communities where moderators are constantly watching new posts and dealing with them. Note that Google is not involved in this (except in communities they own and moderate).