Post moderation

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Re: Post moderation
« Reply #30, on June 15th, 2012, 03:07 PM »
OK, here's the deal from my perspective: I see absolutely no reason to unapprove a message.

Deletion the way we've talked about it has much the same effect but without the complications attached to it - you get to remove the post from general visibility, but leave it around for moderators - and it's obvious that a message has gone (something not currently obvious in either context)
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It applies post_unapproved_topics and such to them, which I think is exactly relevant to what you mentioned above.
That particular permission is a remnant of the old setup, because I don't want post moderation to be tied to the obscure permissions setup in SMF which is why I designed the moderation rules setup - that's the whole point, because the old permissions setup is so messed up. Note that it is entirely a separate thing to the above.

In the old setup, post_unapproved_posts is the permission one assigns to users *instead of* the reply permission, so you have to not issue the reply permission and use this one.

The only reason it's still present (instead of using totally moderation filters) is because I couldn't yet figure out an efficient way to suggest to users that they might be moderated (as having that permission instead of the proper reply one would do)

But it is entirely separate to moderation being applied, or not.
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