Am I going insane or have the new user approvals reversed? I am used to going through the list of new user approval each day and clicking Yes. Today I realised it had changed to Yes = Don’t Approve - which seems crazy. How is the negative option the default for approving something positive like Accept New User? This is going to lead to a LOT of confusion, especially among people like me who just quietly administer forums and don’t check the World of Discourse every day. When someone applies to join, I really don’t want to have to remember that No means Yes.

I’m guessing it’s related to this change: [image] Upcoming change for the review queue: "Yes" now always means there's a problem Announcements Based on feedback we’ve made the review queue’s questions point the same way for every kind of item, so you can work the queue without stopping to check what “Yes” means. Going forward “yes” will always mean “yes, there’s a problem with this.” The update will be enabled as an upcoming change called Consistent review queue answers. If you find the need to disable it, you can do so from Admin > Upcoming changes. The issue was that some review items asked whether there was a problem (“Is this p… Perhaps user approvals were overlooked :grimacing:

What happened to Approvals?

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putty (putty) November 13, 2026, 4:14pm 2

I’m guessing it’s related to this change:

Perhaps user approvals were overlooked

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Review New User Needs Better Button Labels UX akismet , completed , review-queue	3	513	March 25, 2024
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What happened to Approvals?

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