Is there any way to moderate specific topics i.e. require moderator to approve before it becomes visible to the community?

In terms of site settings the option approve unless trust level would allow you to require all posts from users below a specific trust level be approved. There’s also an approve new topics unless trust level which has the same affect for topics. If you set that to TL0 all new users would need their …

[image] Stephen: There are no equivalent settings to apply to specific topics. Having such a setting would be awesome. We have some topics which are known to trigger unwanted behaviour in some people. We would still like to have those discussions without the need to create a separate category…

Then they should be moved to group PMs if that granular level of access is needed.

It’s not about access but moderation. We want the discussion to be accessible for everyone, while also every post in the topic to require moderator approval.

Moderation by topic?

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) February 27, 2022, 12:00am 7

There is no concept of per-topic permissions in Discourse outside of PMs.

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Moderation by topic?

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