Moderator module

ashcan
February 12, 2010
1:37pm

A moderator module would be a good way of introducing another level of community interaction and help keep sites clean.

Status: Resolved

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Linea February 22, 2010
11:23am

What do you mean by a moderator module? Do you mean creating a custom role for Moderators or something more?

ashcan February 22, 2010
1:27pm

I was thinking of some way that certain roles could flag content. It wouldn't delete or hide the content but would notify a specific role that someone flagged some content for review.

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heather February 22, 2010
3:33pm

I do think any social site needs some sort of community moderation. Humans are still the best moderators. + 1 for that! The Flag module also covers bookmarks which is handy. The flags/bookmarks come with a variety of views and blocks which make it easy to implement flagging and tracking. Also flagging doesn't require node editing rights. In the meantime... if you need this functionality now, someone with a moderator role could add tags to content, like "flagged" as a tag. This would require they have node editing right for those content types (Permissions: Can edit any X content type). This may or may not be desirable- for a number of reasons. Another alternative to implement could the the Community Tags module. This allows users to tag content that isn't theirs. But still, for moderation purposes Flags wins. ~ Heather

Heather James
Gardens Advisory Team | @learningdrupal

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Chris Brookins February 22, 2010
11:12pm

Tracking this as AN-13243

Chris Brookins
VP Engineering and Product Management, Acquia - blog - twitter -

ashcan February 24, 2010
12:13pm

Thanks Heather for the recommendations. My thought process is trying to make it as easy and quick for the user. A single click for the appropriate role would be ideal in my opinion.

Marie-Hélène March 19, 2010
6:38am

And what about a pre-publication moderation ? a simple workflow management for collaborative contribution. The Workflow + Rules combo would be much complicated for most of users but you could add an action "send a mail to users of a specific role" (when new content is created, moderators are warned), and you could add a permission "edit submitted-to-moderation content". An author would be able to save a content as a draft or to submit it to moderation. workable ?

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Linea March 19, 2010
7:58am

Hi Marie-Hélène, I want to make sure I understand your idea. Is this what you're describing? - The site owner can decide if authors' content is published immediately or if it requires approval from an editor type role. If the site owner wants content to be approved, then this is what happens: - Users (who have permission to create content) will create a new piece of content, eg. a new article - The article is not published - Users (who have permission to approve/edit submitted-to-moderation) get an email that there is content to be approved - Users (who have permission to approve/edit submitted-to-moderation) approve the new article and it is published on the site thanks

Marie-Hélène March 24, 2010
6:45am

Yes, that's the idea. Of course you could imagine something more complicated but this one is quite enough for most of needs. ps. You may know that a chapter of "Using Drupal" (by Angela Byron & al.) presents a case-study of this type of workflow. That's one of the examples I have in mind.

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Linea March 24, 2010
12:35pm

We want to add workflow capabilities in a future version, so it's good to hear the details of people need.

sfbof August 18, 2010
7:53am

+1 for this. Especially Marie-Hélène's take on it.

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