Thread going into Moderate Queue?

[zaon]

Howdy,

Quick question here. Board has been running for years, and am running 3.0.7.

For the first time I clicked the 'moderate threads' link in the mod panel and found about 4 threads in there awaiting moderation, including one from just one month ago. However, in the entire history of my board moderate posts has always been turned off and also disabled in each usergroup.

Just wondering how a thread might wind up in the Moderate Queue... Is there a link a Mod may have accidentally clicked that would move a live/visible thread into the Mod queue? If so, where is it and can it be disabled for safety reasons? If not, how might a very occasional thread wind up in there?

Thanks!

[Chad F.]

I was wondering the exact same thing, I've noticed this on my board also..

[Jake Bunce]

In vB2, poll threads were placed into the moderation queue until the poll form was submitted. If the poll form was never submitted, then the thread would remain in the queue.

vB3 doesn't do that anymore. They are probably old threads from vB2. I don't know why that newer thread is in there though. Maybe you have post moderation enabled in the thread's forum?

[zaon]

vB3 doesn't do that anymore. They are probably old threads from vB2. I don't know why that newer thread is in there though. Maybe you have post moderation enabled in the thread's forum?

Several are probably from vb2.

A few are from vb3. I upgraded from vb3.0.1 to 3.0.7 on march 22nd, and one was before that and one was from after that.

On my boards users and ability to edit posts but with a time limit. One of my new Moderators (my mods can edit/manage/del threads, but can't edit post text) said he tried to edit after the time limit and couldn't (which is correct), but then he responded saying this:

"So I went into Moderating tools and tried to edit, and now the thread was moved to a Mod. Que that i cant find."

Any idea what that is and if he could have done something that moved the thread as indicated? Because I did find that thread he mentioned awaiting moderation.

[Jake Bunce]

Well if you edit a thread and uncheck the Thread is open option, then it will go into the mod queue.

[zaon]

Well if you edit a thread and uncheck the Thread is open option, then it will go into the mod queue.

Ahhh haa! :-)

That's very likely what's been happening on rare occasion then, and explains why only a few threads were in there. Just Moderator error.

Isn't that confusing tho? Unchecking "thread is open" seems like it means you'd want to close/lock the thread; not make it disappear by sending it off to the moderation queue. Just an observation on wording that could throw off newbie mods.

Also, is there an easy built-in option/way to disable this from happening? Say, remove the 'thread is open' check box (leaving it always 'checked') or by limiting a Moderator permission of some kind? Or does that option have to be removed from the templates?

[Jake Bunce]

Oops, I meant Thread is visible.

[zaon]

Oops, I meant Thread is visible.

Ok, cool.. that makes sense! :-)

Now, anyway to disable just that option from happening since none of the Mods has permission to access the moderation queue since we never use it?

[Jake Bunce]

Admin CP -> Styles & Templates -> Style Manager -> « » -> Thread Administration Templates -> threadadmin_editthread

Find this code and remove the red code:

		<fieldset class="fieldset">
			<legend>$vbphrase[options]</legend>
			<div style="padding:$stylevar[formspacer]px">
				<div><label for="cb_open"><input type="checkbox" name="open" value="yes" id="cb_open" $openchecked />$vbphrase[thread_is_open]</label></div>
				<div><label for="cb_sticky"><input type="checkbox" name="sticky" value="yes" id="cb_sticky" $stickychecked />$vbphrase[thread_is_sticky]</label></div>
				<div><label for="cb_visible"><input type="checkbox" name="visible" value="yes" id="cb_visible" $visiblechecked />$vbphrase[thread_is_visible]</label></div>
			</div>
		</fieldset>
		
		$posticons
		
		</div>
	</div>

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Hmm wouldn't removing always return false for visible, and send everything into mod.queue?

[Jake Bunce]

Umm, yes. I was thinking they were mutex radio buttons for some reason, like the deletion options.

Replace the red code with the blue code:

		<fieldset class="fieldset">
			<legend>$vbphrase[options]</legend>
			<div style="padding:$stylevar[formspacer]px">
				<div><label for="cb_open"><input type="checkbox" name="open" value="yes" id="cb_open" $openchecked />$vbphrase[thread_is_open]</label></div>
				<div><label for="cb_sticky"><input type="checkbox" name="sticky" value="yes" id="cb_sticky" $stickychecked />$vbphrase[thread_is_sticky]</label></div>
				<input type="hidden" name="visible" value="yes" />
			</div>
		</fieldset>
		
		$posticons
		
		</div>
	</div>

[zaon]

Thanks, Jake!!!! :-)

That should help close up any more accidents from happening.