Moderating content

[testingsoftware]

Hi all,

If I set up different categories, can I allow people to post freely in some but moderate the content before goes live in others?

If I set the category to Watching it will notify me of new posts but i won’t be able to moderate them before going life.

I’ve read somewhere that this might be done in the trust levels but I want to moderate by categories, not users.

Since I am asking about moderating. Sometimes in the past we had problems with some posts and had to check all the posts from specific users. Can this be done and how?

Thanks.

[erlend_sh (Erlend Sogge Heggen)]

@testingsoftware

我曾在某处读到，这可能在信任等级中实现，但我希望按类别进行 Moderation，而不是按用户。

目前还无法在类别级别上实现此功能。我已将您的话题移至 Contribute > Feature，以便您可以将其作为功能请求进行跟踪。

@testingsoftware

过去有时我们遇到某些帖子的问题，不得不检查特定用户的所有帖子。可以这样做吗？具体怎么做？

您可以将该用户的信任等级锁定为 0，或者您为 approve unless trust level（除非信任等级否则批准）和 approve new topics unless trust level（除非信任等级否则批准新话题）设置的任何信任等级。

[xrav3nz]

There has been a similar feature request for which I had a UI mockup,

All topics in a category should be confirmed before publication

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 came to light. I will revisit this in the coming week(s).

[watchmanmonitor (Allen Hancock)]

It sounds like a request for having content marked Pending Approval, which exists now.

More details in this tag: approval

[testingsoftware]

Thanks for letting me know.

What I see in the discussion discussion of balancing moderation power vs end-user experience is interesting and gives us hope.
This is a feature that I say every forum software should have. I believe in flow of posts and user power but sometimes content needs to be moderated. In our case, we do not want certain institutions or individuals working there mentioned and one of the reasons is to avoid any type of litigation.
The reason to not to check all posts in all categories prior to publishing is trust on the user. In some areas, posts go live and moderated after, and some where naming is more likely to occur, are moderated before.

Thanks for the work and looking forward to see what happens with that feature.