Maybe I’m missing it: Is there any way to configure a specific user to always be moderated? (i.e., Always have their posts held in the moderation queue for review before posting?)

Nice idea. Since we use an external SSO provider, we create accounts at TL1 automatically. I changed the site setting for approve unless trust level to 1 so this approach will be possible. Thanks!

This should work! Keep in mind that TL0 comes with a few additional restrictions, but this might even be what you want for a troublesome user :slight_smile:

[image] downey: Nice idea. Since we use an external SSO provider, we create accounts at TL1 automatically. I changed the site setting for approve unless trust level to 1 so this approach will be possible. Thanks! Assuming you don’t have that many troublesome TL1 (and lower) users, I would rec…

We’ve always considered re-scoping this, e.g. this topic must have all responses pre-moderated this category must have all responses pre-moderated this user must have all responses pre-moderated haven’t quite had a compelling enough use case yet though

That wouldn’t be horrible, but I personally can’t see it as the mainline behavior for anything in our community.

[image] codinghorror: haven’t quite had a compelling enough use case yet though Agree, this feature is heavily underused atm, almost all the communities we host do not pre-moderate. It places a huge barrier in front of users and flagging usually takes care of it less obtrusively. If we are g…

Set a specific user to always be moderated

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fefrei (Felix Freiberger) January 20, 2016, 2:54pm 2

Not directly. You could require moderation for all TL0-posts and then lock that user on that trust level, but that forces you to moderate all posts from new users.

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Set a specific user to always be moderated

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