Postby Shadow Yoshi » Sun Jun 15, 2014 11:25 am
It's because people are accessing global announcement topics through the View Unread Posts (or an equivalent) search function. The URLs require a root forum, and global announcements conceptually don't have one. phpBB uses whatever forum you're currently in as the root forum for a global announcement, and the search functions aren't a forum so phpBB picks one for you. For whatever reason, it always picks forum 59 (Video Submissions); this is a forum that requires approval for posts, which is why posting in the global announcement topic requires approval when you use the search functions (making it as if the topic was located in the Video Submissions forum, which is how phpBB is treating it). I'm not sure if there's a fix for this bug, but I'm pretty close to just deleting the Video Submissions forum because it doesn't get used anyway.