# Topic approval audit log

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-approval-audit-log/84059
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [March 28, 2018, 6:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-approval-audit-log/84059 "2018-03-28T18:46:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![jordan1909](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9f8e36/32.png) [@jordan1909](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jordan1909)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2018, 6:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-approval-audit-log/84059/1 "2018-03-28T18:46:37Z")

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Is there anywhere I can find a log of who approved what topics?

I don’t see this anywhere.

Seems like this was asked a bit ago: [https://meta.discourse.org/t/log-of-post-approval-from-the-moderation-queue/36344](https://meta.discourse.org/t/log-of-post-approval-from-the-moderation-queue/36344)

Any input?

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### Author: ![Mittineague](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mittineague/32/114259_2.png) [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2018, 6:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-approval-audit-log/84059/2 "2018-03-28T18:50:28Z")

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There might be something better. But the queue “blocks” the user. When the topic / post is approved the one that approved “unblocks” the user. “Blocking” can happen as a separate action too, so YMMV

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### Author: ![jordan1909](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9f8e36/32.png) [@jordan1909](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jordan1909)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2018, 6:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-approval-audit-log/84059/3 "2018-03-28T18:55:44Z")

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@Mittineague

I’ve searched my logs and see no records of that transaction occurring. Just for sanity check I forwarded one and check the logs right at approval with nada there.

Its almost as if the staff action doesn’t exist in any way.

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### Author: ![Mittineague](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mittineague/32/114259_2.png) [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2018, 7:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-approval-audit-log/84059/4 "2018-03-28T19:14:26Z")

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Nothing at all like this? Did you try the Filter?

 ![block](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/f/c/fc1d398a08b79b0e01302a8e5f66d6afef56b170.png)

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### Author: ![jomaxro](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jomaxro/32/126216_2.png) [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2018, 7:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-approval-audit-log/84059/5 "2018-03-28T19:16:38Z")

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Users who enter the approval queue for reasons _other than_ spam checks will not necessarily be blocked. For example, if new topic approval for users \<TL2 is enabled, all TL0 and TL1 users who create new topics will not be blocked.