Ability for users to act as moderators on their own topic

[orangeandblack5]

No, no, no, and yes

But the passive-aggressiveness is appreciated

[orangeandblack5]

I have asked our admin to do basically this, thanks!

[Chaboi_3000]

No, no, no, and no

Then it leaves you to category moderation then.

[orangeandblack5]

Changed the last no to yes as I realized I don’t want to pay (as I do not currently have any income, being a student)

I do think more features is financially beneficial for Discourse as compared to less features though, and am therefore comfortable suggesting a few.

[orangeandblack5]

Yep, gotta love that new feature

From 12 days ago, right?

[Chaboi_3000]

From 12 days ago, right?

Yes, I think…

Changed the last no to yes as I realized I don’t want to pay (as I do not currently have any income, being a student)

I recommend you invite your admin to this topic so he/she can handle this.

I do think more features is financially beneficial for Discourse as compared to less features though, and am therefore comfortable suggesting a few.

Yes, but some can cause more bad than good.

[orangeandblack5]

Yes, but some can cause more bad than good.

I do entirely agree with that, although in general I find it hard to believe a toggle-able option to give users a bit more self-control would be one of those.

[Chaboi_3000]

Then it leaves you to category moderation then.

This works as a solution then. No harm.

[orangeandblack5]

I don’t see why having a semi-workable solution should be enough to prevent a request for a more specific featureset?

Obviously that’ll go into decisions about whether they’re implemented by the devs (as, after all, time is money), but I do not see a reason to not also hope this is added so people do not need to be temporarily added to a group of mods for a category, which also still gives them power over more than just their own posts.

So while I am currently working on that, I am simultaneously requesting this feature.

[orangeandblack5]

PLEASE! I’m so freaking tired of people talking after night ends, especially dead people!

This from 11m ago on another site, Chief Delphi (pulled an example from here above as well)

FRC M8 signups!

I wasn’t even thinking about doing anything on CD but I guess I can now

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

Particular features I think would be most useful include:

• The ability to lock your own topics
• The ability to post on your own locked topics, provided you were the one who locked it
• The ability to unlock your own topics, provided you were the one who locked it
• The ability to remove users from PM chains you started
• The ability to forcibly add or remove posts from your own topic summary
• The ability to share these self-moderation capabilities on a given topic/PM chain with other users

Basically you’ve described PMs, which can be sent to groups.

If you want a personal message – start one!

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

More succinctly, this is describing per-topic permissions which would require a massive rearchitecture of Discourse. That’s… not going to happen any time soon, and by any time, I mean in the next few years. If ever.

The closest things to it have already been brought up:

• Keep all these “game” topics in a specific category and take advantage of our about-to-be-released category specific moderators. This is likely your best bet.

• Use group PMs which are much conceptually closer to this model and might work OK “enough”.

[orangeandblack5]

this is describing per-topic permissions which would require a massive rearchitecture of Discourse.

That’s a shame - if you do ever get around to it though

[Stanzilla]

Just found myself in a situation needing this as well, would be lovely if this could happen some day.

[Lhc_fl (Linca)]

Does anyone still care about this?

I have a forum that needs this, and I’ve developed a plugin for it - it’s still in active development, but almost all the features mentioned in this topic are already available.

Anyone willing to try it?

By the way, its I18n support is not good

Maybe I should attach some screenshot?

[orangeandblack5]

Definitely still interested, feel free to DM info but I might not be able to get around to it for a bit

also what does this mean

@Lhc_fl

By the way, its I18n support is not good

genuinely no clue if that’s something I should care about or not

[Canapin (Coin-coin le Canapin)]

I think that would be a great plugin.

@orangeandblack5

genuinely no clue if that’s something I should care about or not

https://www.i18next.com/

i18next is an internationalization-framework written in and for JavaScript. But it’s much more than that!

i18next goes beyond just providing the standard i18n features such as (plurals, context, interpolation, format). It provides you with a complete solution to localize your product from web to mobile and desktop.

You may care if you need to translate this plugin’s text content in some languages.

[Heliosurge (Dan DeMontmorency)]

@Chaboi_3000

Oh sorry, it was a staff ability.

Leader TL4 also have this ability.

[Heliosurge (Dan DeMontmorency)]

@Chaboi_3000

Self-locking is incredibly useful for forum games in particular.

Any examples in the past?

Forums where users play for example table top Pen & Paper RPGs. The Game master for example can close the topic until next session.

[Heliosurge (Dan DeMontmorency)]

@orangeandblack5

While neither of these were game-ruining posts, I have seen some before that have absolutely been just that (been a few years and honestly can’t find them now).

Well with Discourse being extensible I inagine this could be done with sponsoring development of a plugin.

@Stephen

The staff on your community need to learn to schedule topics to automatically reopen then

I imagine the Automation plugin would come in handy to automate this process.

@Chaboi_3000

This “Self-Moderation” feature is way to risky. Just use TL4 or Category Moderation

A custom plugin that could be enabled on a per category basis would midigate the risk to low if done well. Might be tricky to add ppl other than the op though.

@Stephen

• I want to use a community discussion product to run a game
• I don’t want to write any plugin code
• I don’t want to staff my community sufficiently
• I don’t want to pay for this to change

Sound about right?

@orangeandblack5

No, no, no, and yes

But the passive-aggressiveness is appreciated

Then there is nothing that will be done. You will need to petition your community Forum for change. It is unlikely the team will add this function that is more for a niche per use case. Features are often added due to a wide benefit vs a per case use. And no Stephen imho is not bring passive aggressive by gleaming what your really asking for

@Lhc_fl

Does anyone still care about this?

I have a forum that needs this, and I’ve developed a plugin for it - it’s still in active development, but almost all the features mentioned in this topic are already available.

Anyone willing to try it?

By the way, its I18n support is not good

That is quite awesome! May need to give it check. Just need to know more on the potential support issue(s). But looks very promising.

I would be interested in test driving your plugin. And provide any feedback your wanting.