XF 1.2 handling reports

[icke]

Aloha,

currently I have to add every user of my forums (who should be able to handle the reported items) one by the other. Is there any possibility to add this power to a special usergroup?

Thanks in advance!

icke

 

[Paul B]

Dealing with reports is a moderator function.
You need to explicitly make those members moderators.

http://xenforo.com/help/moderators/

Other than that, permissions can be applied to user groups and members can be added to the group.

 

[icke]

Hey,

thanks a lot for your quick reply & okay, that's what I understood.

But please imagine team sizes above 50-100 moderators because of very big forums - you'd have to add each moderator manually as a moderator. With a healthy employee turnover this would be an high administrative effort - which could be avoided by just adding the ability of handling reports to usergroups. As far as I can see this is the only feature you can't access without being added manually as a moderator (or is there more?).

Best,
icke

 

[Paul B]

The manual page I linked to above explains what isn't available if they aren't made moderators.

 

[icke]

Ok, thanks. So there is no possibility to add these permissions (Moderation Queue, Reported Items) to another user group? Any plans to implement this possibility?

Best,
icke

 

[Paul B]

No, the only way is to explicitly make members moderators.

I don't see that changing as it is a fundamental aspect of how the code functions.

You could send all reports to a dedicated forum, which is an option in the ACP, but you lose the features related to the report center.

 

[icke]

No, the only way is to explicitly make members moderators.

Ok, thanks!

I don't see that changing as it is a fundamental aspect of how the code functions.

What a pitty.


Just my 2 cents: xenForo advertises a forum software which is able to handle forums upto 1 million members and more. Handling such a fictional large member group requires a lot of moderators. Adding moderators to a usergroup is one thing, adding them addionally as a moderator and adjusting rights also manually within this menu again doesn't seem to be logical or better said doesn't seem to be "manageable with a small administrative effort" anymore.


Anyway, thanks a lot for your fast replies!

Best,
icke

 

[icke]

You could send all reports to a dedicated forum, which is an option in the ACP, but you lose the features related to the report center.
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I'll try this, thanks!

icke

 

[Martok]

Regarding adding moderators individually, you would have to do this anyway if you were adding them to a moderator usergroup. What I do is have the the Moderator usergroup configured with all of the forum moderation permissions I want my moderators to have. Then when I make someone a moderator, I go into the ACP, add them via Users > Moderators and when I do this I simply tick the option "Add Moderator to User Groups" and select the Moderator usergroup. No other permissions are added on this screen, just this option. Then when I save them they become a moderator and are added to the Moderator usergroup. In the future if they are no longer a moderator they are just deleted from the list which will both remove them as a moderator and take them out of the Moderator usergroup.