How to make the queued posts visible to their authors?

[iva (Nick)]

@eviltrout

This is my main objections to this approach. If the forum isn’t administered quickly those posts will most likely be ignored. We purposely did not implement queued posts in this way for this reason. I worry that if we merge this in, and people turn on the option, it will lead to much confusion as posts are missed.

What if we make this feature dependent on the site setting “approve unless trust level = 3”? And also explain in bold letters the consequences?

Or, can you suggest an alternative design for this feature that would address the missing posts issue?

As a general comment, if a forum requires pre-approval of some posts and those queued posts are not administered quickly, it is going to create complaints in the community regardless of this feature.

@downey

What about giving the author some type of view of the post moderation queue (essentially a read-only view of the admin’s to-be-moderated list, filtered by only their own posts)?

This wouldn’t work for us, as the explicit requirement is to make the pre-moderation “invisible” to the participants to as much extent as possible.