Moderation
Keep low-quality posts and spam out without slowing real users down. Moderation lets you hold non-team posts and comments for review before they go public, and decide whether anonymous visitors can interact at all.
Workspace-wide controls live at Admin → Settings → Moderation. Per-board overrides and the review queue are covered below.
Allow anonymous interaction
Decide whether visitors without an account can interact with your portal at all. The master switch is Allow anonymous interaction: "When off, all boards require sign-in for voting, commenting, and submitting posts."
By default this is on — new workspaces let anonymous visitors take part. It acts as a ceiling across every board for Vote, Comment, and Submit only. View is never gated by it, because anyone being able to view a public board is the definition of public.
When you turn it off:
- The board Access tab disables the Anyone tier for Vote, Comment, and Submit.
- The server rejects anonymous votes, comments, and submissions.
This is a ceiling, not a floor. Turning it back on does not re-open boards that restrict an action through their per-board tiers. A board with Vote = Signed-in still blocks anonymous votes.
Team members and admins always bypass anonymous-interaction rules. The switch only affects portal visitors.
Approval rules
Require approval before submissions appear publicly. Two independent toggles set the workspace defaults:
- Require approval for anonymous posts — posts from visitors without an account wait for review before they appear.
- Require approval for signed-in posts — posts from signed-in portal users wait for review before they appear.
Turn on either one to hold those submissions for review. Leave both off to publish everything immediately. You can hold one group without the other — for example, hold anonymous posts while letting signed-in users post straight through.
Comments follow the post-approval setting only when both toggles are on — that is, when you require approval for everyone. Otherwise comments publish immediately, unless a board overrides comments explicitly.
These are workspace defaults. Individual boards can override them on the board Moderation tab.
Per-board overrides
Need a different rule for one board? Each board can override the workspace defaults on three axes — Anonymous posts, Signed-in posts, and Comments — from the board Moderation tab.
Each axis is set to one of three values:
| Value | What it does |
|---|---|
| Inherit | Use the workspace default. The pill shows the resolved value, e.g. Inherit (On). |
| On | Always hold submissions for review. |
| Off | Always publish submissions immediately. |
A moderation badge appears in the admin sidebar whenever review is active — the workspace default is on, items are pending, or any board forces a rule On. This keeps per-board moderation discoverable even when the workspace default is off.
Review queue
Approve or reject held items at Admin → Moderation, titled Moderation Queue. The queue has two sections, Pending posts and Pending comments. Each item shows the author (or Anonymous), the board, and the content, with Approve and Reject buttons.
- Approve publishes the item. A held comment then counts toward the post's public comment total.
- Reject removes it from the queue. Rejected items are soft-deleted and can be restored from the admin.
The queue is available to team members — both admins and members.
Team members' own posts and comments are never held. They publish immediately, regardless of workspace or per-board rules.
Next steps
- Boards — set per-board access and moderation on the Access and Moderation tabs
- Portal access — choose who can view and sign in to your portal
- Audit log — review every moderation and access change