[mferguson]

Originally Posted by MuhammadC

Love the idea, but have a couple questions:

1. What happens if the entire thread isn't moved, but rather specific posts in a thread?

The mod only addresses threads that are moved and not actions on individual posts. While managing our sites we never have had a need to move individual posts. If you can provide more information on the conditions by which you move posts or take action on them it may give us enough information to extend the mod in future releases.

Originally Posted by MuhammadC

2. Regarding the second scenario:

If the thread is moved from a forum that the author can see to another that he/she cannot see, the moderator performing the move will receive a private message notification reminder to contact the author and let them know why it was removed from the publicly visible forum.

It would be nice if it would send a default PM to the author instead of the moderator. 99% of moved posts can be covered by a default PM.

The reason we didn't PM them in this scenario is that you may not necessarily want to let them know you've moved their thread to an area that they can't see. On our sites there were two cases that we used this for. The first was if the thread creator was a vendor who had no advertising agreement in place and we wanted to pull it out of circulation so we could have time to review them and follow up with the vendor. The other case would be that the thread author violated some type of site guideline and we would pull it so that the entire moderation team could review it and have a chance to determine a course of action.

Again, let me know your use cases and perhaps we can provide additional options to support both types of behaviors.

Originally Posted by MuhammadC

3. Can you specify one username that all PMs come from? This would be nice to have them come from the Admin account so members don't get in arguments with moderators over posts that are moved/removed.

In our case we wanted to be able to demonstrate that a multitude of moderators were in place and working together rather than just a single person. This would prevent the impression that there was just a single person managing the site.

The bottom line is that we are willing and interested in extending Thread Move further. To do so just provide us with some detailed use cases on how you would want features to work, how you currently do it on your site, and we'll see what can be done. The biggest thing for us is making sure that we include features that the majority of sites can make use of.

Thanks!

Mark