Pre-moderation of every post in a community is not something we recommend as a general rule or a best practice. However, there might be communities or situations where doing so would be beneficial.
This article provides a list of tools that you can use to pre-moderate content in your community.
Civil Tongue addon (swear word filter)
This addon allows you to define a list of forbidden words that, when used, will be replaced with text of your choice. To learn more, see:
Keyword Blocker addon
This addon allows you to define a list of forbidden words that, when used, will block the content (discussion, comment, poll, etc.) from being posted. To learn more, see:
Pre-Moderated Category addon
This addon allows Admins to flag Categories as being Pre-Moderated, so that all new discussions and comments are automatically blocked and sent to the Moderation Queue. To learn more, see:
Resolved Discussions addon
This addon makes it easier to review and track every discussion that is posted in your community. To learn how to enable and use this addon, see:
Pre-Moderating a Role
You can also moderate individual Roles by editing the Role and enabling the Approval > Require
permission in the Vanilla section.
When this permission is set, unverified members' posts are put in the Moderation Queue and have to be approved before they are posted on the community.
To learn about this and other Role-based permissions, see:
Additional resources
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