The discussion is about giving Topic Level 3 (TL3) users the permission to manage posts within their own topics, specifically to move off-topic posts to a different topic. Currently, this permission is only available to TL4 users or admins/moderators.
fbpbdmin proposes a few potential solutions, including granting TL3 users the ability to manage posts in their own topics or allowing them to mark irrelevant replies for TL4 or admins to move later.
Canapin suggests a plugin, “Topic Op Moderation”, that grants special permissions to topic authors, but notes that it doesn’t currently include the ability to split and merge topics. fbpbdmin expresses interest in turning this plugin into a theme component, but Canapin explains that a plugin is necessary due to the requirement of back-end features.
Lhc_fl mentions a post-folding plugin that might be relevant, but fbpbdmin notes that a theme component is necessary due to hosting plan limitations.
very often, someone starts a topic, but the discussion could be easily go (very) off-topic. the topic author 'd like to keep the discussion relevant, but don’t want to delete these off-topic discussions.
currently
TL4 users or admin/modulators have the permission to “split and merge topics”,
but we’d like to give the TL3 users the permission to split/merge his/her own topics, or move these irrelevant posts to a different topic.
we are not ready to move these TL3 to TL4
solution ?
TL3 should have the permission for managing posts in his/her topics?
say, allow TL3 could move posts within his/her one topic to another topic, but not posts under other ID’s topics ?
possible to let the topic owner mark the irrelevant replies some way, then TL4 or admin could move them to a different topic later ? possible to do this with a theme component ?
I have a post-folding plugin that collapses irrelevant discussions. Maybe this can be what you need, a way to notify tl4.
But this was written in collaboration with a friend. To share it, I need her permission.
thanks tho…