Hi, I have a difficulty with that setting: approve unless allowed groups. This is my setting (TL1 to TL4 have been set, screen capture is in French): [screen-capture (Captioned by AI)] Based on the above setting, I expected my TL2 users posts not to be requiring approval, but they are. I may be…

Are there any “review” settings, such as “review every post”, that are not default?

did you try it with just TL1? lower levels are inherited (ie: TL3 = TL2 + TL1 +TL0) [Screenshot 2024-09-19 at 5.51.04 PM] This setting is working as expected for me. I set it to TL1 like yours. when my test user was TL 0, their post needed approval [Screenshot 2024-09-19 at 5.45.54 PM] [Scr…

I will try with TL1 only. But I don’t understand why adding upper levels would interfere with that logic.

[image] Patrick EMIN: approve unless allowed groups Ok this is what I did: “approve unless allowed groups” set to admin+moderators+TL1 only From my test user account who is on TL1, I posted a topic, this topic went to the approval queue As I understand the logic, it shouldn’t isn’t it? No…

Oh wait, this was the first topic from that user, but posting the second topic did not go into the queue, so far so good. So I moved my test user to TL2 and posted a new topic, and… it went to the approval queue… And it shouldn’t, I am completely lost :crazy_face: I am an hopeless case …

I am still not understanding what the problem is. I also tested the settings for approve new topics unless allowed groups and they work as expected. I have the following settings: [Screenshot 2024-09-19 at 7.51.56 PM] And my test user that is TL1 cannot create new topics but can still make repl…

Yes using your settings my TL2 users replying require approval and they should not.

Hmm… Is your category settings maybe set to New Posts require approval? If so the category permission I believe will take precedence over the site setting if not mistaken.

Did you enable different approval settings? Like the approve post count site setting or the Require moderator approval of all new replies and Require moderator approval of all new topics setting of the category?

[image] Lilly: Perhaps the setting description is a bit confusing with a bit of a double negative in the words “unless” and “cannot”. It’s also confusing because it assumes that the person configuring the setting understands the internal implementation of trust level groups. Taken at face val…

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Lilly September 20, 2024, 1:01am 4

can you verify your test user trust level settings? because I just tested the same way with TL1,TL2 and TL3 as allowed, and my test TL0 user still needed approval. it shouldn’t matter if you add higher levels.

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