But I'm not a new member and one of my threads has disappeared.And I can say that it's not just a feature used on this forum. I moderate elsewhere and the default behavior, that cannot be changed, is that the first message from any new member must be approved before they are "unleashed."
It saves an awful lot of grief and an awful lot of cleaning up after rapid serial spammers.
But I'm not a new member and one of my threads has disappeared.