# What happened to Approvals?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-happened-to-approvals/417366>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [13 בנובמבר,‏ 2026,‏ 4:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-happened-to-approvals/417366 "2026-11-13T16:03:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![awesomerobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/awesomerobot/32/142900_2.png) [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)\
**Post date:** [13 בנובמבר,‏ 2026,‏ 6:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-happened-to-approvals/417366/9 "2026-11-13T18:35:20Z")

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> [@Laurent](#):
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> But then don’t we get back to the earlier issue where Approve can mean that a post is deleted when it’s a flag, and that it’s kept when it’s the spam queue?

Right — would using yes/no only for flags, then approve/deny only for approvals be different enough to avoid the previous confusion?

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I’m still interested in collecting feedback on the current state from others, so I’m not in a rush to change anything _quite_ yet. If anyone would rather not deal with the current state until we’re settled you can disable `Review queue consistent answers` from `/admin/config/upcoming-changes`

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