# End user pre-approval queue experience can be much improved

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/end-user-pre-approval-queue-experience-can-be-much-improved/68307>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [Agosto 18, 2017, 11:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/end-user-pre-approval-queue-experience-can-be-much-improved/68307 "2017-08-18T11:49:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [Agosto 18, 2017, 11:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/end-user-pre-approval-queue-experience-can-be-much-improved/68307/1 "2017-08-18T11:49:58Z")

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At the moment the pre-approval queue feature is pretty user hostile.

If you submit a topic you see:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/1/f/1f2f02cad2953060d88c4f91769bb9510dabcb93.png)

How can you tell what topics you have in the queue? There is nothing in activity.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/7/2/723f774fbd905497073844ff0a3e35f8b126cf32.png)

Allowing edit is possibly a spam vector if implemented incorrectly (cause people could edit it JUST as you are approving a previous version) however if we were careful you could very cleanly allow safe edits. Which enormously improves the end user experience.

The situation for posting in a topic is even worse.

You get the same dialog.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/7/1/717e1f5e8546ffb2c9fe16bf451fff4abd44172c.png)

However on the actual topic you see **no trace** of your pending post.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/6/c/6c7a6175f095618adcec60f1bf5516ea6b587c76.png)

I can not tell it exists in my profile, I can not tell it is out there for approval on the topic. I can not edit it.

As an end user, when I experienced this whole thing at [https://discuss.reactjs.org/](https://discuss.reactjs.org/) I felt absolutely terrible. It is like you are driving completely blind.

@xrav3nz as you are improving the moderation queue I really want you to keep this in mind, making a user hostile feature even more easy for moderators may not be the correct order of operation here. We got to think about the users.

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