Do not swap Approve / Reject buttons in the spam queue!

We’ve been getting a lot of spam lately, sometimes 10-15 posts, and it’s very obvious they are spam so I go very quickly through them to delete and block the user.

Doing so made me realise that Discourse has two GUI to handle such messages - the spam queue and the flag queue. That’s fine, but the problem is that these two queue swap the Approve / Reject buttons.

See in the screenshots below - in the first one, the “Reject” actions are on the left, and the “Approve” one on the right. While on the second screenshot you would click on the left button to “Approve”, and on the right one to “Reject”.

Obviously when going through many posts it’s easy to end up restoring a post when you wanted it deleted or vice-versa.

So I’m suggesting putting the similar actions on the same side - maybe by changing queued topics to have the “Reject Post” button on the left instead.

Flagged post

Queued topic

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