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Well, this in not really a hack... I'd call it RFH (request-for-hack) instead. :-)
Just that I'm playing with geeklog at the moment and was really surprised to find out that there's no way of avoiding "approval" for the article that people post.
What I need, and I guess many people would agree, that there's a feature required when you can mark certain sections as "post-moderated" rather than "pre-moderated" as it is now.
People post an article (link or event) and it immediately appears on a site, without waiting to be approved by admins.
This would make it more exposed to abuse, but in some cases you just have to live with this risk.
I was going to do a quick hack myself... But I'm not really good at php. I had a quick look at the code and it seems like until approved the article stored in a separate database so my "easy hack" idea of adding "approved" attribute at the time of posting didn't work. :-(
There's more work required... Anybody thinks it's a good idea/feature to have? Or am I talking bollocks and nobody apart from myself actually needs this?
I think this openness might gain some extra folks to the community in many many cases.
I guess there a number of possible solutions:-
1. Leave it as it is :-)
2. Have a global switch (0/1) and if 0 then have a normal behaviour, if 1 then switch off approval system completely
3. Have a section specific switch which makes only certain sections "post-moderated".
4. Give users a right to post articles without a "pre-moderation" after a nuber of successful posts.
5. Combination of 3 and 4. Have per-section settings - on/off/after XX successfull posts.
I guess the latest is the most flexible but obviously requires most work.
Any takers?! :-)
