Edit or Reject Pending Guest Content

QCLF lets an authorized moderator correct a pending guest Topic/Message before approval or reject it without publishing it. Both actions stay inside the frontend Content moderation queue and are audited.

Editing reuses QCLF’s server rich-text sanitizer and content-policy checks; the moderation form is not a way to bypass prohibited-content or length rules.

Edit Before Approval

Open Moderation → Content → Pending Approval.
Expand Edit on the guest submission.
For a Topic, correct the title if needed; edit the Message body for either Topic or reply.
Select Save Pending Content.
Re-review the still-pending result, then Approve only when ready for publication.

What Edit Changes

The submitted HTML is sanitized, converted to text, run through the Category content policy and text limits, and then saved. Topic edits update title/body/modified time. Reply edits update body, set is_edited=1, and stamp modified time. The approval state remains pending, and QCLF records edit_pending_guest moderation history.

Reject Pending Guest Content

Confirm the submission should not be published.
Select Reject and confirm the action.
For a Topic, QCLF sets approval/state to rejected and stores deletion metadata; for a Message, it sets approval to rejected plus the deleted flag/metadata.
Confirm the item leaves the Pending Approval queue.

Guest-State Notifications and Audit

Edit and Reject are recorded through the Topic moderation audit service. That audit feeds QCLF’s guest-state notification registry, allowing the configured notification/template system to distinguish edited, approved, rejected, and pending guest events without exposing the private guest email publicly.

Community Discussion

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