Moderation
Moderation lists the comments on the sites’ pages that need someone to decide: comments that wait for a moderator, comments people flagged, and comments a moderator hid. The menu shows how many wait.
Who moderates
Section titled “Who moderates”The portal’s administrators moderate every site, including comments left on sites no longer in the portal. Everyone else moderates the sites they may edit, and sees only those sites’ comments. Moderation shows in the menu to whoever moderates at least one site. An administrator seeing the portal as someone else cannot moderate.
Decide on a comment
Section titled “Decide on a comment”Each comment shows its site and page (or the entry it belongs to; for a post on an activity widget, Activity on and the widget’s page), its author, its words, whether it waits, and how many people flagged it, with the reasons they gave. Then:
- Approve publishes a comment that waits. When it answers someone, they are told now, and so are the people it names. For a flagged comment the button reads Keep: the comment stays, its flags are cleared, and the people who flagged it cannot flag it again.
- Hide takes the comment off the page for everyone but the moderators, with its answers. It stays on Moderation, marked hidden, where Show puts it back on the page.
- Delete deletes the comment and its answers.
The queue shows the newest 200 comments. Every decision is written to the audit log, as are the comments people write, answer, delete and flag.