Group, Spaces Admin and Moderation

There is need to have content approval control for Group, Spaces and a whole lot of other content posting modules.

In a Community Based Group that is made up of the good, the bad and the ugly, membership cuts across all levels.

Is basically normal to allow intending members to freely join their community page and be given the privilege to post their thoughts, however their are many miscreants who just join to post an AD or rubbish which can get the senior citizens irritated and cause the group to lose its value. 

The Admins or Managers should have the means to preview posts before it's allowed to appear to other members. FB Group Admin example below.

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    • Hi, i really don't know much about this app, but maybe it can be configured to gradually give users more action rights to the site depending on their behavior. https://una.io/page/view-product?id=182 Or maybe creating a membership with limited actions? Just giving u ideas for the time being.

        • Group and Spaces module are identical to WhatsApp group system where you either allow every member to post or limit it to only Admins - this was fine as members were drawn by you from your phone contact. (Problem started on WhatsApp since joining from web pages were made possible - you can join any WhatsApp group, post rubbish and exit the group)

          In UNA there is also a challenge because it's web based and a public Group doesn't have the preliminary need for a member to already exists on your phone contact. So a public Group can be joined by anybody anytime once they are already a member of your website.

          Since many CAUSE or INTEREST or ADVOCACY GROUPS will be having public status, there is need for Admin to be able to moderate posts before it's made public.

          Otherwise the present design is ONLY adequate for MICRO GROUPS and SPACES that requires membership by invitation or confirmation IE members are already screened. Prescreened membership only work for Small Project Groups that are open to identified category of people.

          Open social group and spaces needs moderation. Facebook has this feature.

          • So, pre-moderation for content? Cold you describe in more details... say, is it a blanket setting for all members of the group and all types of content, or each member is gradually vested or can be upgraded to higher levels and not require to be moderated?

            • Thanks Andrew Boon for looking this way.

              A Group that draws it's membership from all classes of personality will often times be large.

              Then everyone is free to post contents. Large public and free joining groups has always come with attendant issues of abuse.

              To prevent abuse and institute sanity, this contents are pre-moderated before it goes live.

              The basic and most common is blanket for all content posts from non-admins. Powering with exemptions for selected profile levels will ultimately puts Facebook behind.

              • DeDiary an interesting idea indeed. I will follow to see how this turns out. I am glad the Andrew Boon is asking questions - we may see this yet.

                • The following are screenshots of FB Group Admin Tools. I have 16 posts pending approval. I have attached one example of a post to be declined. Posts could either be approved or declined depending on the appropriateness of the content. 

                  This is very important because a moderator cannot be online watching 24/7 for violators Andrew Boon 

                  • In fact only one out of 16 pending posts was fit for approval. The rest were junks, adverts and declined.

                    Without a Moderation tool, the group quality would have been killed. We need this in una because the loophole is a big defect.

                    • Yes there needs to be a way to prevent spammers from jamming up a site.  A provisional membership would do it.  The first level all posts have to be approved by a moderator.   But not just for groups, but sitewide.  At the basic level, you wouldn't need to be approved.  Currently, Keeping a UNA site clean from spammers requires an admin on the job 24/7.   

                      • https://una.io/page/view-product?id=182

                        This is great. However, it doesn't take away the responsibility to moderate contents. Some users will not care about points deductions as a penalty for posting any wrong or unrelated message but contented with the chance of reaching for example 500,000 users unrestricted.

                        • Definitely require this. Andrew Boon to put it simply, it is "pre-moderation".   A user posts content into a group (or indeed anywhere into the site - if pre-moderation is turned on) and the content item appears in a queue for "approval" by admins or moderators before it goes live.

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