The mod I wrote is to verify a single thread. Or, actually, the first post in the thread which is the post that is supposed to contain all the correct information for the torrent. It is just a way for the Mods to say the torrent has all the required information (Verified) or that there is more information that they have asked for (Questionable) - the other action is to Pull the thread/torrent, but that doesn't need any mark since to pull it you just move it to another forum. It would be pretty easy to add something to the Mod logs to grab the ID of the moderator who verified the thread, but I didn't feel it was necessary for our needs.
Spinball, one thing to watch for in yours is when a Mod opens several threads in tabs. It sounds like all the posts in the opened threads would then be instantly marked as checked (or rather, that whole thread is then 'locked') and that might not be what you want. I'm not sure what a good solution would be to that (except to tell the mods to stop using tabs and I know I couldn't live without my tabs!). Maybe they click on something once they are in the thread and ready to check the posts and they are only allowed to 'lock' one thread at a time? I think for your needs, the inline moderation for checking off posts is a necessity. You would want the mods to be able to put a check next to all the posts they checked and then OK them all with one action. I don't understand your last statement about if a Mod stops halfway through a thread. Wouldn't it be OK for the Mod to approve a bunch of posts, then have to leave the site for some reason and only OK the ones he looked over? Or does the Mod have to check all of the posts at one time?
01-13-2008, 10:34 PM
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