There are three people who have codes to moderate this board.
Only the founder has access to admin email and she doesn't check email often.
The moderator approval status of each post was eliminated after the show was canceled and the pace of the board slowed. It wouldn't be fair to everyone to wait until we got around to looking to have your posts approved.
We did, however, turn the feature back on not long ago when a few troublemakers got a bit ugly- once everything settled down we put it back on self moderate.
NOW- this new mess - these spammers are working faster than we have time to keep up with- Since I don't want to put the board back on moderator approval- I've added captcha.
After a while when the spammers go away I'll take it off - but I think for now this is the best solution.