# Attach "require moderator approval" to a user?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/attach-require-moderator-approval-to-a-user/118487>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [23.Май.2019 07:37:34 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/attach-require-moderator-approval-to-a-user/118487 "2019-05-23T07:37:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![ryanerwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ryanerwin/32/94589_2.png) [@ryanerwin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ryanerwin)\
**Post date:** [23.Май.2019 07:37:34 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/attach-require-moderator-approval-to-a-user/118487/1 "2019-05-23T07:37:34Z")

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There are some really malicious or negative people that you may want to silence or ban, but we’ve also got a handful of people that seem either oblivious or not technically sophisticated enough to engage properly with the forum.

For a pure independent community, silencing or banning is probably best. However, when a community is also part of commercial support, seems a bit heavy handed to outright silence someone that’s a real customer unless they’re is something very clearly wrong.

There’s already a “Require moderator approval” workflow that can be turned on for categories, and also for suspected bot posts… Is there already a way to force specific users to “Require moderator approval” on all of their posts?

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