# Moderation advice

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderation-advice/244966
**Category:** Community Building
**Tags:** moderation
**Created:** [November 9, 2022, 8:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderation-advice/244966 "2022-11-09T08:41:37Z")
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### Author: ![Tris20](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tris20/32/264639_2.png) [@Tris20](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tris20)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2022, 10:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderation-advice/244966/4 "2022-11-09T10:18:48Z")

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> [@per\_coh](#):
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> In other words I want our staff who don’t have full admin or mod access to be able to flag a post, have it removed from view (temporarily or not) and ping the mod team, but not to punish the user who posted it.

#### Trust Levels

Have you considered making these users a higher trust level? For example, users who are Trust Level 4 can simply unlist/hide any topic they can see.

#### Watched Words

If there are words/terms that are common in the posts which need to be hidden, then [Watched Words](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatic-actions-based-on-post-content-watched-words/66878) might also be of interest to you.

You could use Flag to allow topics to be posted, and then reviewed, or Require Approval which triggers the topic to be reviewed privately before it can be made public.

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