I have a created a moderated category where every user post has to be approved by a moderator. When a user submits a post, I as moderator see the option to accept, reject, and edit. (This is with a near vanilla recent install of Discourse).
For my use case, I need an additional option: “request revisions” - so that the user may make revisions to their proposed post so that it can be approved afterwards.
Is this something Discourse supports out of the box, or is there perhaps a plugin that would support this use case?
The lack of replies seems to indicate that this is not possible.
I tried editing the post as moderator while keeping it in the pending state, hoping that the submitter would see the edit. However, when I impersonate the submitter, there doesn’t seem to be any way for them to see a pending post they submitted. Is this correct?
I’ve been using Discourse as a replacement for Piazza in a CS course. As part of students’ participation grade, I’d like for them to create a topic (or contribute to a topic) in a way that meets certain standards of quality. That’s why I moderate those specific posts: if it meets the standard of quality I set, I’ll approve it. If it doesn’t, however, I don’t just want to reject it - I’d like to point out what I feel is missing or could be improved before approving it.
So you want to be able to notify the user to edit their post while it remains in the Under Review state without rejecting it? Then you can review it a 2nd time before approving it?
Yes. BTW, it wouldn’t require support for a separate thread capturing this exchange - it would be ok for my use case if the poster saw the edits I made and had the change to make edits on their part while the post is in the pending state.
On that topic, I found that I am unable to tell if a pending post is a reply to an existing topic or a new topic in the moderated category.
This is very confusing. I want to reject duplicate posts that attempt to start a new topic while a previous topic about the same issue hasn’t been replied to.
I don’t think so, we really only did some extremely minimal changes here.
I think we should try living with the feature for a few hours (on the both ends of the stick) to experience it.
I moderate a site and it is often find it very hard to tell context as a moderator from the review queue. As an end user when you are shunted to the review queue it is a bit alarming and surprising.
