Request: Moderation queue all the things

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In a feature request titled ‘Request: Moderation queue all the things,’ erlend_sh proposes a plugin with two main components: adding a ‘Mod Queue’ to moderator/admin profiles and enabling admins to route specific automatic actions through this queue for approval. Examples include leader promotions, certain badge awards, title changes by leaders, and new tag creations. The post includes reversed text and broken links, likely due to formatting errors, but suggests such moderation is useful for rare, high-impact actions. codinghorror responds cautiously, noting that while not everything should go through moderation, posts (including topics and replies) are already queued in Discourse 3.1, implying some of this functionality may already exist.

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Two components to this plugin. I haven’t tested the “admins must approve all user signups” nor been on the receiving end of flag notifications, so maybe #1 is done already.

  1. Moderators & admins get a “Mod Queue” added to their profile.
  2. Admins can select all kinds of automatic actions to go through this queue for approval.

Some examples:

  • Leader promotions (see this and this.
  • Certain types of badges
  • Title changes by Leaders
  • New tags added (see this)

For rare occurrences, I think this could work well. For instance Leader promotion happens rarely enough that it might as well require one last OK from a human, which also forms a stronger bond of trust if the promotee know that’s required. Same for badges.

Things like title changes and tags are trickier though, since these are actions that benefit from immediacy. In their case it might work better to add them pre-approved to the queue, available for quick disapproval when deemed necessary.

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I don’t know about this for everything but for posts (which includes topics and replies) we are building this for Discourse 1.3, as it has been requested a lot.

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