I was trying to figure out a workflow where draft topics created by a specific user requires approval from someone in an ‘Editor’ Group before the topic becomes visible. As all topics will come from a specific users, is there a way to force all topics from a user to require approval? Or is there a …

Hi Isambard, [image] Isambard: topics created by a specific user requires approval In category settings you can select that all topics go through approval [image] [image] Isambard: in an ‘Editor’ Group In the image above below ‘Moderation’ you can set a group name. In your case I t…

[image] ondrej: There is a manual way to put items in the review queue but this way seems ineffective as it makes you choose a flag option and just wanting to review a topic doesn’t fit the bill of any of the flagging options in my opinion. I think you can add custom flag types soon. Then you…

Ohh thats a pretty neat feature!

A special category plus category moderators was also one of my first thoughts. This does limit that all posts have to go to a specific category. I guess I could add some kind of post-approve hook to then re-categorize it or task the reviewers with manually doing that as part of the review step.

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Moin June 20, 2024, 7:51pm 3

I think you can add custom flag types soon. Then you could create a review flag.
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/27484

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