We needed this yesterday. I reject a lot of new topics each day because they are duplicates of existing topics, but those users will never get even a single word of reason why their topic was rejected.
I don’t have the time to:
- Messaging them through PM’s and deal with the discussion that follows
- approving the topics and unlist and lock them right after
- approve the topic and then open it to flag it as a duplicate
When I reject, I would like to provide a reason and be done with it right in that moment. This can be a standard reason (duplicate, out-of-scope of community, poor writing, inappropriate), optionally followed by a short message.
Not having this is very discouraging for new forum users.