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You ask for the post to get approved. You probably can't imagine the amount of spam subreddits suffer under.

Mods simply ignore any such messages, especially from new or low karma accounts. Entreaties into the void.

In the cases I remember there was no such recourse. It was just autodeleted by a bot.

You have to send the moderators a message manually. They can unhide comments held by AutoMod.