I see what you mean, a separate flag message (or substitution of part of the existing message) for watched words would be useful.
Here’s the portion of irrelevant text we send when a watched word is auto-flagged:
Multiple community members flagged this post before it was hidden, so please consider how you might revise your post to reflect their feedback.
That’s true when a post is flagged by users, as it often requires multiple user flags before being auto-hidden, but with watched words your post is auto-hidden immediately.
You could alternatively use the “require approval” variety of watched words and change that message. By default new users don’t need any posts approved, so unless you changed that setting the require approval message can be specifically customized for the watched words case.
You could modify this to say something like “We’ve received your new post but it contains a word that is sometimes used to offend others. A moderator will review your post before it’s published.”
I see what you mean, a separate flag message (or substitution of part of the existing message) for watched words would be useful.
Yeah, a kind of soft approach, working in the same way as the flagging, but without a message going out to the user until a decision/action has been taken perhaps, but still providing the same options to the moderator/administrator for keeping the post, deleting the post, editing the post etc.
The paragraph you highlighted from the email was in fact the very one which one community member copy and pasted back to us to query.
Thanks for the idea regarding the Requires Approval, I obviously wouldn’t want to delay anyone’s posts too much, despite being on the forum pretty much every day there could be a number of hours before I return, this could clash with region time zone differences too and give the user a less than satisfactory experience.
Out of interest, when a post is flagged as requiring approval, are the options to then only approve/disallow? As mentioned above, it has been useful to have individuals flagged so that we could potentially identify repeat offenders. If someone triggered the Needs Approval based on a term - what are the outcomes of the moderators/admins response? e.g. is the user still flagged in any way? Are the options different from those you see when a post is currently flagged as inappropriate?