It appears that category moderators may not be able to view hidden posts. It dawned on me that there is something wrong with the code here.
I don’t know, but should hidden posts be visible to anyone who can edit the post?
Regarding who can see hidden posts, the current logic requires that the user must be in a specific group. However, users with edit permissions can view hidden posts by “editing” anyway. This may be a little strange.
FWIW You can’t see the content of a hidden post by opening it up in edit mode.
I do think Category Moderators should be able to see the content of flagged hidden posts though, and specifically in the same manner as a Moderator would if possible (ie. open but greyed out, rather than behind the ‘view ignored content’ click-to-see screen a member of the view hidden posts
setting would get).
Please split this thread to a new topic, I’ll discuss some boundary conditions about who can see hidden posts
For the current feature of hidden posts visible group
, we have some boundary conditions that are currently not ideal.
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Category moderators should be able to edit users’ posts; however, currently category moderators who are not part of the
hidden posts visible group
cannot see hidden posts, and cannot get the post content even if they click edit. -
Currently hidden wiki posts cannot be edited by normal users. Not only that, clicking the edit button does nothing. Looking at the console reveals the following errors:
Object { jqXHR: {…}, textStatus: "error", errorThrown: "Forbidden" }