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Split of post approval permissions

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emanuele:
I assume so, since I doubt that while doing the approval SMF checks if the user approving the post is also the author of the post itself that is approving his own post. And that makes useless to separate the permissions (that is the reason of Arantor's comment).

Arantor:
Correct, that's exactly it, Kindred.

If you can approve posts, you can see all unmoderated posts and you can approve any in the board for which you have permission, regardless of ownership.

Just for good measure, you can't even split it into own and any, because any overrides even own being denied.

Kindred:
hmmmm.....  given that, I don't think this is something that can be easily addressed with the current system....  it would require a re-write of the entire approval permissions and possibly the smf permissions design.

not saying it's a bad idea... just saying that it seems that, as you noted with wedge, it would have to be completely re-written, not just patched.

Arantor:
I've been steadily moving it towards not being permission based if I can at all help it ;)

For those wondering what I did do, http://wedge.org/blog/7090/back-in-the-saddle/ discusses it - I essentially revamped it not to be based on permissions but define a set of rules and conditions by which moderation will be applied - even admins' posts will be moderated unless they exclude themselves in the rules. (It's not perfect but it's the best I could think of!)

I haven't yet figured out how best to handle approval permissions, but I'll figure it out sometime.

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