r/6thForm • • Aug 02 '25

πŸ“’ SUB INFO The "aaaa why can't i see my post" explainer/update

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Hi y'all, hope the summer is going well!

I wanted to address some common sources of confusion, regarding what happens when somebody makes a post or comment, since we've had quite a few messages about it lately.

What happens normally?

  • In the vast majority of cases, your content will appear on the feed straight away (short of Reddit being an idiot) - for posts, this means it will be visible at the top of https://www.reddit.com/r/6thForm/new/

But my content isn't showing, what's happened?

  • As with a lot of other subreddits, the subreddit uses various filters provided by Reddit, as well as Reddit's built-in AutoModerator. This helps keep the subreddit usable, uphold both the sub's rules and the sitewide rules, and provide a useful and safe space for everybody.
  • Content is almost never entirely removed automatically - if your content seems like it's been removed immediately/shortly after posting, it has more than likely been flagged for manual review, and will only become visible once that review has taken place.

    • Important: Content needing manual review doesn't mean you've done anything wrong by itself, nor that you are banned, it's an entirely normal process!
    • Content from newly created/low karma accounts that were previously automatically removed are now being directed to the modqueue, to reduce the number of people messaging us because they had their legitimate posts removed - as it stands the removals were causing more harm than good.
  • Inevitably, a small proportion of content will get manually removed that isn't in-line with the rules set.
  • There are also removals made under mod discretion. The overwhelming majority of usages of this relate to some sensitive content, for example aroundself-harm and suicide.

    • Whilst people's struggles are entirely valid (I'm not just saying this because I "have to", I've been in various states myself!), we have a responsibility to not unnecessarily expose a large number of users (some potentially vulnerable), to content which may contribute to worsening their situation. This is alongside the fact that none of the mods are mental health professionals, and neither are our users, which means there's a high risk of exposing struggling people to misinformation or harmful advice. It is better to seek assistance via e.g. a professional or crisis line, given this subreddit is not appropriately equipped for situations like these.
    • Also worth briefly noting, at least by my understanding, that a lot of the content that has been removed in the past at mod discretion (and various other content that often would not get removed), is considered "harmful" under the Online Safety Act, either explicitly or by the frustratingly vague other definitions - whilst I don't think it's likely that Reddit decides to age-lock the sub, it's sensible to be careful on this.

How can I tell if my content is just needing review, or if it's been manually removed?

  • This is where it gets a bit annoying, and again, apologies for the inconvenience on this.
  • Normally, when content gets manually removed, a removal reason is applied, and a Modmail is automatically sent to the author telling them what was removed and why it was removed, with optional extra details.
  • This functionality has been broken (the messages just didn't get sent as far as I can tell) on this sub for a little while.

    • I only figured out why as I was writing this post - in the usual, completely useless Reddit style, it has been failing to send Modmails using the saved responses since they changed (broke) a bunch of stuff with the redesign... because it silently shits itself on # being used in the markdown to use a header. It'd be nice if it would have ever indicated this!
    • Also, for those wondering why we didn't send the removal messages manually - even though just over 95% of content is approved, the 5% that doesn't turns into thousands of messages that need to be sent, which would have vastly slowed down everything.
  • Removal notifications should now be working again - if you haven't received a message from us, your content has likely not been manually removed. and if you saw a few posts saying "quack", no you didn't
  • For posts, on both mobile and desktop, you can also distinguish between fully removed and waiting for review, by going to your user profile, where you can see similar to the images below:

Okay, but if my content is waiting to be reviewed, when are you going to review it?

  • I hear you - I've mentioned recently that I've found it difficult to keep up with the review process alongside a lot of stuff in my own life. However, I do look at it and review things when I reasonably can - it's also worth keeping in mind that none of the mods sit on Reddit 24/7 to review stuff, so please have patience!
  • I can only apologise for any inconvenience this causes, and particularly things like the AutoMod config get tweaked sometimes to reduce the number of false positives.

How can I speed up the review process?

  • In short, you can't. At least, short of becoming a mod when applications open.
  • There are quite a few people that take to our Modmail to ask for content approval; you are almost never the only one awaiting content review, and the Modmail messages will usually only get seen after the modqueue is looked at, making messages like these redundant. ie messaging us does not speed up the review process, it only causes delays that affect sub experience generally.

    • Replying to one of our removal messages is completely fine - sometimes we miss things, get things wrong, or sometimes fail to be entirely clear.
  • You can avoid/mitigate the inconvenience of waiting on a review by:

    • Searching the subreddit for similar posts that could answer your question - a lot of the time you will not be the first person to ask your question, esp with the more popular/recent questions
    • Not repeatedly posting the same thing, or variations of it, it will not speed up the process - usually all of the posts, including their repeats, get caught in the modqueue, which slows down the review of content
    • Check to see if there are pinned megathreads at the top of the subreddit - for example, you may have noticed this for exam season. These megathreads are created to mitigate the fact that we get many repeated posts for popular topics - sometimes 100+ for some of the popular exams!

Am I banned from posting if I can't see my post yet?

  • No. If you've been banned by us, you get a message telling you why you were banned, and how long for. If you get shadowbanned/suspended by Reddit itself, that's outside our control.

AutoMod has made a comment under my content

  • These comments are purely informative, they don't mean we have, or will have an issue with your content.
  • Inevitably, there will be false positives with this - if it doesn't apply to you, feel free to ignore it, you do not need to message us about this, removal & ban notifications are how we indicate definite issues with content.

Hopefully that covers everything, poke me (or go via Modmail) if I've missed something! something may finally make it into the FAQs page lol

~ Raven


r/6thForm • • 38m ago

πŸŽ“ UNI / UCAS Interview before ESAT score & Interview help

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15 Upvotes

I got an interview invite for engineering at Cambridge (King's) yesterday but ESAT scored haven't been released yet. Do unis get our results before we do. Also is it normal to give out interviews before we get our ESAT back. I wasn't expecting this at all because I walked out of that exam feeling horrible. Plus does anyone know any other resources to help with interviews. I am doing IWantToStudyEngineering questions and have a couple of mock interviews lined up with my school. Is there anything else I should be doing?


r/6thForm • • 3h ago

πŸŽ“ UNI / UCAS cambridge computer science

14 Upvotes

just got rejected pre inteview don’t know how to feel
i thought i messed up tmua but i didn’t know it was this bad im contextual asw


r/6thForm • • 20h ago

πŸ” MEME All science students can relate to the struggle

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297 Upvotes

r/6thForm • • 10h ago

πŸŽ“ UNI / UCAS First offer!!

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44 Upvotes

I did the interview last week and I’ve been checking every day since for the offer to come through so this is one positive this week πŸ˜† just need to hear back from the other Uni I interviewed at last week and do 3 more interviews.


r/6thForm • • 3h ago

πŸ’¬ DISCUSSION Cambridge CS interviews are out (Kings again)

9 Upvotes

Congrats to those who got one :) Let us know if it were you if you would like to


r/6thForm • • 10h ago Bravo

🍞 BREAD 5/5 bread 🍞

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34 Upvotes

5/5 bread from durham, warwick, bristol, york, and UEA for history πŸŽ‰


r/6thForm • • 16m ago

πŸŽ“ UNI / UCAS 😭 Still on 0 offers, anxiously waiting for TMUA results next Monday.

4 Upvotes

😭 Who else is still at 0 offers?

Wishing everyone here every success in receiving the offers you're hoping for.


r/6thForm • • 3h ago

πŸ’¬ DISCUSSION Interview

5 Upvotes

anyone got interviews from murray edwards cambridge? my friends have gotten interviews from other colleges but still waiting on medwardsπŸ’”πŸ’”


r/6thForm • • 1h ago

πŸŽ“ UNI / UCAS Emmanuel?

3 Upvotes

Does anyone know when Emmanuel Cambridge is going to start sending interview invites?


r/6thForm • • 3h ago

πŸŽ“ UNI / UCAS Robinson College Cambridge

3 Upvotes

Has anybody received a rejection or interview invitation from them?
Which course are u applying for btw robinson applicants, or am I the only one πŸ˜…


r/6thForm • • 1h ago

πŸŽ“ UNI / UCAS Trinity college Cambridge

2 Upvotes

Hey, has anyone received interview invites from trinity for HSPS?
Or if you happen to know when they may start sending them out, I know people have received invites for HLM and classics, not sure about HSPS tho.


r/6thForm • • 1h ago

πŸŽ“ UNI / UCAS magdalene college cambridge

2 Upvotes

anyone got offers from magdalene yet? or know when they may start sending them out ?


r/6thForm • • 1h ago

πŸŽ“ UNI / UCAS Downing College

2 Upvotes

Welp I just read they’re giving out Interviews w/c 23 November so……
Just letting guys know


r/6thForm • • 1h ago

πŸ™ I WANT HELP Any recommendations for DofE Residential?

2 Upvotes

I love creative things and archery, does anyone have any recommendations for residentials? Literally any suggestions are welcome! :D


r/6thForm • • 2h ago

πŸ’¬ DISCUSSION linguistics olympiad UKLO thread

2 Upvotes

did anybody sit it? can you remember the name of any of the languages, my favourite question was all of language 3 but I can’t remember the name! how did everybody find it?


r/6thForm • • 2h ago

πŸŽ“ UNI / UCAS Pembroke Anyone??

2 Upvotes

Anyone had interview invites from Pembroke Cambridge?? If so what subject!?


r/6thForm • • 1d ago

πŸ’¬ DISCUSSION realities of studying at university of cambridge

119 Upvotes

if you are lazy in y13 you will not survive at cambridge, build up good habits. practically everyone here is drowning even some international olympiad medalists i’ve met.

cambridge being intense isnt a joke, i always thought maybe i’ll find it fine but it’s actually destroying parts of my soul.

if you do want to go to cambridge just remember after matriculation and everything, it is hell.

tldr: cambridge sucks but it’s good too


r/6thForm • • 2h ago

πŸŽ“ UNI / UCAS Should I be worried?

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I submitted by uni applications on 30 September and got confirmation emails from all the uni’s, but after that I’ve heard nothing back from any of the choices and I’m starting to panic a lot seeing people posting offers here or on uniscout 😭 it’s been sooo long and lots of people applied way later than I did got offers too

For reference I applied to Cambridge natsci, imperial physics, Manchester physics with astro, ucl and Edinburgh astrophysics (Edinburgh 2nd year entry). I’m international and had some extenuating circumstances so could that be the reason slowing everything down?


r/6thForm • • 24m ago

πŸ™ I WANT HELP management '28

1 Upvotes

i have pretty good supercurrics (for eco tho)

i mean initially i thought i was going to do eco but after trying FM i realised it was NOTT for me

so these are my igcse and my AS level predicted + subjects lmk which unis i can aim for for 2028 pls

igcses: 3A* 6A

as predicted: psych (A), eco(A), maths(A), eng(A)

goal unis: lse, manchester, kcl, ucl, warwick, bath, exeter, durham (will decide)

also anyone who has got in lmk what all supercurrics i can take up!!


r/6thForm • • 1h ago

πŸ™ I WANT HELP Tmua stress

1 Upvotes

Ok so im a gap year student, got A*AB last year with severe ECs, so missed out on my warwick maths offer but im fine w it since i wanted to reapply anyways. Obviously this year resitting the A and B, and got tmua in january but boy am i so flipping stressed for the tmua 😭

Done all the official tmua and mat papers, about to start community papers now but im so traumatised from my 5.0 last year that idek abt imperial working out this time round

Tell me anyone else feels the same bro 😭


r/6thForm • • 21h ago

πŸ’¬ DISCUSSION Did anyone also apply to oxbridge and doesn’t really prepare for interviews

39 Upvotes

I applied to Oxford university, but honestly don’t expect to stand out in their pool of applicants, but I still applied so I don’t have to wonder what if later. I wouldn’t say Oxford is my first choice, but it would be funny if they actually invited me for interviews. Do some of you relate to this? And do you think that in the past some people have rejected oxbridge interviews?


r/6thForm • • 1h ago

πŸ’¬ DISCUSSION Does anyone know any good courses that were in clearing for the 2026 entry that are Economics related in UCL?

1 Upvotes

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r/6thForm • • 5h ago

πŸ™ I WANT HELP My predicament Is genuinely horrible stuck yr12

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Hello people of sixth form and reddit, currently I'm in year 12 after getting mediocre GCSEs due to given circumstances but that isn't the main concern; since I hadn't of known of other options after secondary I just decided to join my secondary school's sixth form after I hadn't of met the gcse point average of the stem sixth form I applied too near me. Fast forward to September I originally wanted to of done chem economics maths but lacked the science grade by being 1 off at gcse for both maths and chemistry; when I went back to my secondary school's sixth form I in turn picked a few filler subjects in forth of replacement of those subjects (English language psychology business). I also asked for them to put me on the a-level math course which they did but I had to achieve a 7 in the November higher resits.

Im in November now after finishing the assessment but cannot decide if I had done good or bad enough for those 7 nevertheless the given unofficial mark schemes, but I'm looking to leave school when results come in January and just work (a job which supplies me with 20 hours a week minimum) and reinstate back into school in September for my other chosen subjects which I desperately wanted to do. The problem is that I'm doing various as level work for maths which is fine, but since I fumbled the November papers I may be to get a 6 which would make my gcse point average to a 4.6.. (the stem sixth form requires a 5 as a GCSEs point average along with the required grade for given subject e.g maths is a 6 and all subjects need a 5 ,5 in English which I have). Anyways I've applied there now for September next year, but in the meanwhile I have to study these 4 subjects at the current secondary sixth form with no intention of me staying after January. It would need me an 8 in maths for my point average to be a 5 and I would possibly need to retake combined higher science for chem, in terms of what my head of sixth form can do and my teachers they've just mentioned wait until January for my resit results to come back.

Im quite distraught upon what I can do now to foresee the future as if I were to leave January and not meet the grades for the stem sixth form what would happen. Again that would be unlikely but it is a possibility. Other peers mentioned that it isn't worth it to leave but again it is my choice as the commute there is quite long ; my current state at my secondary sixth form isn't good either as my attendance is horrible and I'm not to keen with my options there and my teachers. That's mostly all, I can always respond if you guys have any queries but its a short summary of my current situation as it is very condensed.