# Improvements for posts awaiting approval

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/improvements-for-posts-awaiting-approval/51001
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** approval
**Created:** [October 3, 2016, 12:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improvements-for-posts-awaiting-approval/51001 "2016-10-03T00:24:37Z")
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### Author: ![pmusaraj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pmusaraj/32/119489_2.png) [@pmusaraj](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pmusaraj)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2017, 3:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improvements-for-posts-awaiting-approval/51001/2 "2017-01-20T15:11:38Z")

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I had some time this week to think further about the Queued Posts screen, and I worked on some mockups in Sketch. Here it goes:

###Queued Posts list

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/6/1/614d0f646977ade2bd317bcbcdec8faaf87574fe.png)

This looks like a regular list of topics, as elsewhere in Discourse. Clicking on each topic would open the topic screen, where the moderation would happen.

On the Actions column, I am proposing a new feature: to be able to assign a specific topic to an admin/moderator. This would allow admins to triage incoming posts as well as avoid an issue I have been running into with the current queued posts, where admins do not know if another admin is working on a particular topic (or communicating with the poster).

###Moderate queued posts in topic screen

I propose to have the queued posts be moderated in their context, whether it’s a new topic (first post) or a reply to an existing topic.

Here is what it would look like as a first post:

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/1/4/141cf3a10b3f599c298e21e0cb52f686bc7370ef.png)

and here is it what it could look like as a reply:

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/c/8/c8ea4326f14c1bb4cdb1d318979e1d4d17abd6aa.png)

Having the moderation happen in context is a little slower when moderating in bulk (more clicks required), but IMO it’s better. For clarity, a list of the advantages:

- It’s easier to see, whether a reply is appropriate or not.
- For new topics, admin can see how the post would look exactly.
- editing can now use the composer
- PM’ing the poster would be as convenient as usual (point 1 in my initial list)
- staff notes (point 3) would be covered by the [Staff Notes](https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-the-staff-notes-plugin/41026) plugin.

(Happy to discuss this further and/or contribute to making this happen.)

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