Site Update 11/20/2021
Hello everyone! We’ve been hard at work this week developing a new feature to help curb the submission of spam content to Communities. If you are a Community moderator, you can now toggle a new option when creating or editing your Community:
Turning that option ON will make all new posts submitted to the Community go to a “pending posts” queue. If you are a moderator, just click on the “Flags & Review” button in the Community navigation bar (formerly just the “Flags” button) and you will be taken to the flag review page, where you will see a new tab for reviewing submitted Community posts. You can either Approve or Reject a submitted post.
Because we had to develop this feature rapidly, it’s being released without some “quality of life” features we’d otherwise have included such as email notifications for new submitted posts. Also, at this time, the user who submitted the post will not be notified of their post being either rejected or approved. Let us know if you encounter any bugs with the new screening system and we will do our best to address them speedily.
A user who is about to submit a post to a community that screens new posts will see a message on the form above the submit button notifying you of the fact. While Community moderators will also see this message, posts made to a Community by a moderator of that Community will automatically be approved and go directly to the Community feed.
In addition, we have made a couple other small changes to the site:
Posts from deleted/banned users will no longer show up in Community feeds or the home page.
All notifications from banned or deleted users will no longer show in a user’s notifications feed.
Thanks for being patient as we worked on these improvements! We are still working on the UI update as well and hope to have it released before the end of the year! Thanks as always for your ongoing support.
Best, Staff











