# Moderating content **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderating-content/71884 **Category:** Feature **Created:** [October 11, 2017, 10:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderating-content/71884 "2017-10-11T22:35:03Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 3
### Author: ![xrav3nz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/xrav3nz/32/76894_2.png) [@xrav3nz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/xrav3nz) #### Post date: [October 12, 2017, 5:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderating-content/71884/3 "2017-10-12T17:06:51Z")
There has been a similar feature request for which I had a UI mockup, > [@All topics in a category should be confirmed before publication](https://meta.discourse.org/t/all-topics-in-a-category-should-be-confirmed-before-publication/66800): > > Hello! I’m pretty new to discourse, i’ve spent half of my life using phpBB and really common thing/extension for it was to make it able to force all new topics in given category to be confirmed by moderator before the publication. It’s usefull for categories which has a strict rules about their title / body (like event directory for instance) or are vulnerable to topics containing some content which shouldn’t be there and can cause a legal troubles. In my scenario, i need it for events directo… I held off working on it when the [discussion of balancing moderation power vs end-user experience](https://meta.discourse.org/t/end-user-pre-approval-queue-experience-can-be-much-improved/68307) came to light. I will revisit this in the coming week(s). --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderating-content/71884)._