Idea: Reject topic reason

[WorldIsMine (DaveK)]

For heavy moderated instances like mine, where we vet new members for a few days/weeks, a reject reason box that sends a notification to the topic starter would be great. Currently, if a topic/post gets rejected under the moderation period, a user doesn’t have a clue why. 8 out of 10 times he will try the same post over and over again, thinking it’s a bug. It would be awesome if there was a box where mods/admins could state why their topic was rejected.

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

The approval process is being centralized and totally reworked by @eviltrout at the moment.

[SystemZ (Michał Frąckiewicz)]

This would be very useful.
Currently when we reject new topic user doesn’t know if he can improve his topic or he should stop trying to post that. This can lead to unnecessary user leaving and we have more work to create PM manually.

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Add reason for rejection of a post

for the first posts of a user, which may need to be approved (based on a forum policy), a reason for rejection may be good. when an admin reject a “waiting for approval” post, it’d be good (educational for users) to add the reason so that this reason goes to the user directly. currently we message users about the reason their post is not accepted. it’s a bit of work, as in a message you need to say hi and bye . I’m not sure if this can work, but when admins click on reject button, a wi…