First Post Approval

Hari

CyberGene what you are asking is a very simple feature, i am not sure this extension or flarum has it or not. wait for someone's reply

clarkwinkelmann

As far as I know there is no way to get notifications for new posts under approval at the moment.

This extension uses flarum/flags behind the scenes, just like flarum/approval does, so if a third-party extension implements notifications for flarum/flags, this extension will automatically benefit from it.

BenFlarum

I'm probably misunderstanding something basic. I have a forum at freeflarum. Very few extensions installed except Approval, Flags and First Post Approval (also FoF OAuth and Fof Webhooks in case that matters). Approves is configured so only admins / moderators skip moderation and First Post Approval is set with "1" for number of first posts requiring approval and "1" for first discussions. When a new user posts a new discussion, it gets held for moderation, but after approval by an admin, all subsequent posts by that new user (replies or new discussions) still require moderation. After approving multiple posts / discussions, still the same behavior.

If I'm understanding the plugin right, after that first approval, the new user should be able to post and create new discussions without needing moderation. Am I missing anything? If not, any ideas for how to fix / troubleshoot what's going on? Since the site is hosting by freeflarum I don't have direct access to the database to see if the user's approval counts are incrementing as expected or not. I'm running Flarum 1.2.0 and First Post Approval 1.0.0.

Thanks!

clarkwinkelmann

BenFlarum unfortunately there is currently no other way to troubleshoot except look at the users table in the database. Maybe the FreeFlarum team can take a look at the values.

If the number is stuck to zero, maybe there's an issue that prevents the Flarum\Approval\Event\PostWasApproved event from being dispatched correctly. Can you try with Webhooks disabled to make sure it's not interfering?

BenFlarum

Thanks for the quick reply. I tried disabling Webhooks, but no change. But your comment about the users table made me realize that I can download a dump of the database. I did that and the entry in the users table for the new user (after posts were accepted) has:

discussion_count = 1
comment_count = 1
first_post_approval_count = 3
first_discussion_approval_count = 4

I think the lower comment / discussion count from the approval count is when I delete a discussion / comment it reduces the count but not the approval count. But it looks like the incrementing of the approvals is right.

In the settings table

('clarkwinkelmann-first-post-approval.discussionCount','1'),
('clarkwinkelmann-first-post-approval.postCount','1')

So it seems like the database is right and has the information is should to approve new comments / discussions. I didn't see anything else in the database that relates to this plugin. If you have any ideas on how to troubleshoot further, that would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

clarkwinkelmann

BenFlarum I'm unable to replicate the issue when using the same values on my test website on Flarum 1.2.

Make sure the user has permissions "Start discussions without approval" and "Reply to discussions without approval". User must only be denied "Post without first post approval" permission for this extension to trigger.

EDIT: to address the deleted post question, it's absolutely intentional. The recorded number of approved posts never goes down by design, as you don't want to lose posting ability just because a post was deleted after being successfully approved.

BenFlarum

Thank you so much. The issue with my permissions. Somehow the 'Start discussions without approval' (and the reply to discussion without approval') was set to mods and not members. Once I changed that, everything started working as expected. Thanks again!

jslirola

Hi @clarkwinkelmann

I have been using this extension since last year and just realized that there is a problem with the number of posts when approving a message from a new user.

Today someone new has registered and has written 4 messages and they have all been waiting for my approval. In the settings I have set that it must have at least one post to avoid spammers. When I approved them I noticed that the number of messages in the user's profile is still 0, is it a problem with this extension?

KarlWard

I have been using this extension for a while, good stuff thanks 😁 The only thing that seems a bit clumsy, is that new users don't receive email notification once their first post is approved and initially replied to (because they can't subscribe to their own un-approved post). This leads to new users making posts, and never returning because they don't know the post was approved and replied to. Any thoughts on this?

CyberGene

KarlWard to further make it difficult for new users there’s no mail notification for moderators either, and so they can’t react quickly to approve new posts. I’ve been to forums where I post and wait for somebody to react and I’ve hated it so much I abandoned it.

clarkwinkelmann

KarlWard CyberGene those are probably issues that should be fixed in Flarum's own Approval extension, as I don't think it's specific to my extension?

CyberGene

clarkwinkelmann yes, those are probably feature requests for Flarum core, to extend notifications.

peopleinside

CyberGene for now you can try Subscribed

matteocontrini

Hello, the extension appears to be broken with Flarum 1.4.0 (not sure about 1.3.0, skipped that). Even if the number of posts to approve is set to 0, posts from new users are put under approval.

Anyone else experiencing this issue? Thanks.

EDIT: is this perhaps related to the changes in how the post number is now calculated?

EDIT2: here's a PR clarkwinkelmann/flarum-ext-first-post-approval2

clarkwinkelmann

Version 1.0.1

Fixed compatibility with Flarum 1.3+ when "number of discussions" setting is used
Compile assets with Webpack 5

The Flarum 1.3 issue caused new posts to be evaluated like if they were new discussions when a number of discussions was required, which would send all replies for approval even if the setting only required approval for discussions. The issue was not present if the "number of discussions" setting was configured as zero.

Thanks matteocontrini ! I notice it's not my only extension that was not updated for that change 😬

orschiro

Hi all,

I have a question. Maybe I am not understanding how to properly use the extension.

Those are my settings.

My understanding was that with these settings, only users should be flagged who haven't posted yet.

However, as you can see with the following example, it's also flagging posts from users with more than 1 posts.

https://community.sheetgo.com/u/Jadbouri

Where is my mistake?

Thank you!

peopleinside

orschiro

have you checked to run the latest version of the extension? What version of the extension are you running?
the issue is not present if the extension is disabled, have you tested?

clarkwinkelmann

orschiro note that the totals are only updated with discussions and posts created while the extension is enabled. Discussions and posts that existed prior are not counted. See section in the README:

clarkwinkelmann Existing users

orschiro

clarkwinkelmann thanks! That must be my problem.

Manually changing the count only affects the working of the extension but won't affect the post count displayed publicly to the user, right?

clarkwinkelmann

orschiro the values of the 2 database columns used by this extension are not shown anywhere in the interface, so you can store any value there, nobody will ever see it. It's only read and updated by the extension. The public post and discussion count is updated separately by Flarum.

orschiro

clarkwinkelmann understood, thanks!

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