# Attach "require moderator approval" to a user?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/attach-require-moderator-approval-to-a-user/118487
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 23, 2019, 7:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/attach-require-moderator-approval-to-a-user/118487 "2019-05-23T07:37:34Z")
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### Author: ![DNSTARS](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/dnstars/32/100957_2.png) [@DNSTARS](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DNSTARS)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2019, 9:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/attach-require-moderator-approval-to-a-user/118487/2 "2019-05-23T09:24:31Z")

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There’s a plug in somewhere that does exactly this, we used it for a while.

Et Voila

> [@Force specific users through moderation](https://meta.discourse.org/t/force-specific-users-through-moderation/58179/13):
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> Here’s what we send reminders for: Pending Users Reminder: if must approve users and pending\_users\_reminder\_delay \> 0 and there are new users who need to be approved older than the delay, then send a message to moderators. Pending Queued Post Reminder: if notify about queued posts after \> 0, contact\_email is set, and there are posts that need to be approved (they aren’t publicly visible yet), then email the contact email. So I’m guessing that this plugin doesn’t use the must approve users or …

I had a comment on here:

> Would it be difficult to implement a function where posts rejected have a reason text field that’s PM’d to the user?

I think that ought to be a feature when rejecting anything from the pre-approval queue in core, in an ideal world a mod would PM the user every time manually but some users are getting knocked back without a reason why and left in the dark somewhat.

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