# Redirect / convert post from Pending Approval to Direct Message?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/redirect-convert-post-from-pending-approval-to-direct-message/35781>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** approval\
**Created:** [Novembro 19, 2015, 5:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/redirect-convert-post-from-pending-approval-to-direct-message/35781 "2015-11-19T05:55:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![watchmanmonitor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/watchmanmonitor/32/430970_2.png) [@watchmanmonitor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/watchmanmonitor)\
**Post date:** [Novembro 19, 2015, 5:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/redirect-convert-post-from-pending-approval-to-direct-message/35781/1 "2015-11-19T05:55:32Z")

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When dealing with messages to be approved, it’d be very helpful to redirect the post to direct message.

This way, we could hash out what the user was really asking for, etc.

Is this something we could see added to the Discourse feature list?

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