In our newly moderated forum, I just got a moderated post which I think is a reply to a private message I sent a user.
Should PM’s be exempt from moderation?
I thought @eviltrout changed something around this recently. I can’t remember, though. New users can’t send PMs at all, but they can reply to any PMs they are sent.
ok, in this case no one without TL3 can post w/o it being moderated.
no one is TL3 but for staff.
The user was replying to a direct message I sent him.
I was on Beta 7 +35
I think you are on an old version of Discourse and should update… I am often unclear if you are talking about your hosted instance with us, or something else. in this case based on the additional version information you provided, this was fixed a while ago.
In the interests of wasting less of your time, and less of ours, I suggest you indicate whether you are referring to your hosted instance or something else on an unknown (to me) version.
I alluded to this in my first rely when I said “I think eviltrout fixed something around this recently”. That is your cue to update to latest 
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Agreed, I should be up to date, but because many of the changes I need can’t be done in /admin, I’ll have to keep self-hosting for now.
That said, I’ve updated to v1.3.0.beta9-dirty and have repro.
Because I don’t know the best way to enable the feature, I’ve done this:
I suspect it’s the approve post count overriding the fact that I’m admin/moderator
Fair enough, @eviltrout can you have a look?
Also - it was only when replying to the private message I started. I didn’t run into this when creating the PM initially.
Hmmm, is the “approve post count” above the recent “sanity” limits ?
i.e. no more 999999999999999999999
It is nowhere close to the maximum for an integer. Setting a value high is valid.
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Looks like replies to PMs were handled slightly differently than creating PMs. I’ve fixed it:
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/5fdbc6c4b22eab4f06e8d0c6dda1d5b08b94b1c9
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