Currently, if Discourse is configured to require approval of posts unless the user has a certain trust level, those pending posts are not visible to their authors. I’m tasked with migrating an existing forum from another platform where this works differently, and one of the requirements is to preserve the old system’s behavior in this respect. So, my goal is to make it such that when a “not fully trusted” user posts a reply or starts a new topic, the message is queued for approval and yet is immediately visible to its author, as if it has already been approved, while no other users (except for moderators) are able to see this post. I’m only beginning to hack on Discourse, finding my way around the code. Can someone more experienced please point me in the right direction on how best to implement this? Thanks.

An engineer who works with me has implemented this feature and we are now testing it locally. We would like to contribute it to the core. Is the @team interested in a PR with this functionality? It would require some additional effort on our part to clean the code up for contributing, so I’d like to understand whether it makes sense and actually welcome.

Sure! As long as it doesn’t introduce any regressions or new dependencies, we generally accept PRs like this. We’d like screenshots of the UI included so it’s clear what’s happening, of course.

I recently tested the New member post queue and found the “Your post awaits approval” modal a bit off-putting. And this was on localhost when I expected it to happen. What was most disconcerting was that not being able to see the post, there was no visual confirmation of success. I don’t know if being able to see the post would be all that much better as it would send a big “we don’t trust you yet” message to the New member either way. I would hope most would understand it to be a general anti-SPAM measure but n any case, I do think allowing the member to see their post with a type of greyed out overlay would be an improvement.

In our implementation, we’ve gotten rid of the “Your post awaits approval” message and other than that there are no UI changes. (Well, there is a site setting that enables the feature.) So, for the author of the post everything works as if his post was not held for moderation. No graying out or anything like that. Just as if the post was published as usual. All the other users, though, only see the post, and are notified of it, when a moderator approves the post. The moderation process works through the existing Queued Posts mechanism; no changes there. Thanks, @codinghorror, we’ll make sure all the tests pass and submit a PR.

Sounds OK but I think there might be edge case problems if the Mods don’t get to it in a timely fashion. eg. How do I _____? Newbie - you _____ Other - you ______ Newbie “Huh? that’s what I just said”

Well, that’s why there is a site setting to enable or disable this feature. So each community manager can decide for himself whether he wants it.

No, I think what he’s saying is that there must be UI visible to the user that clearly identifies the reply as “Not Yet Approved”. So I suggest adding this to the post somehow.

[图片] iva: make it not obvious to the user that his post is awaiting moderation That sounds a lot like a form of “hellban” [图片] Suspension, Ban or Hellban? For almost eight months after launching Stack Overflow to the public, we had no concept of banning or blocking users. Like any new frontier town in the wilderness of the internet, I suppose it was inevitable that we’d be obliged to build a jail at... A hellbanned user is invisible to all other users, but crucially, not himself. From their perspective, they are participating normally in the community but nobody ever responds to them.

[图片] Mittineague: That sounds a lot like a form of “hellban” Yes, indeed. Kind of a “flexible” hellban. In the sense that the posts are not simply ignored but can be selectively approved.

How to make the queued posts visible to their authors?

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iva (Nick) 2016 年3 月 4 日 21:43 9

For us the opposite is an explicit requirement – i.e. to make it not obvious to the user that his post is awaiting moderation. So, what do we do?

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How to make the queued posts visible to their authors?

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