I know this isn't a high priority, but my community wants forums about a few subjects. My website committee is starting to look for other forum software to help out their wants. Ones that give the administrator "rule" over each post! Anyway to make this a little more of a wanted request (higher on the ladder...)?

Today, my HOA board voted for me to take down our forums because of recent activity. The person that started a topic suddenly deleted the thread when he reads negativity after he started with ranting about corporate forcing him to do things that everyone else abides by. He also demanded full support from the hoa though he never became a member. By the time I was made aware, he had deleted the thread with other people on it. My vote is for approval admin given ability to approve topics, at least!

You can find free open software with this feature. It’s overdue for HOA-express.

Any update on when this will be available? Thank you!

Any idea when moderated forums might be available? Thank you!

Yes please. Exactly what Amy H. says! One part of posted topic was great, but then a derogatory comment was added against a neighbor which made it inappropriate. The only choice I seem to have is deleting everything written. I would just like to take out a couple of sentences.

We recently had to completely remove our Community Discussion board and a fun Shout Out board due to a few members posting hostile communication despite clear guidelines. Adding an approval feature as optional would be ideal to allow any administrator the ability to review content before it's posted. Unfortunately a couple bad apples have ruined it for the rest of the bunch who were using the feature appropriately.

Pre-approval of forum posts would provide a valuable filter for the occasional out-of-line posts. You could make this a Settings option so it could be turned on/off, depending on whether the administrator wanted to use that feature or not.

The larger the membership the more time it would take to pre-approve posts which is fine if you sit at your keyboard all day. In our 600 member case, Topics are frequently time sensitive so waiting hours or a day for pre-approval are not an option. If a post or subsequent response is inappropriate i email the offender to educate. For example, using a Topic post to send a personal message. In all our years i have only had one post that was inflamatory, which i jumped on, pointed out how it violated our user terms and conditions, warned that repeat could result in de-registration, and cancelled the post.

Please don't give administrators the option to approve or deny posts from residents. A resident might post an idea an individual administrator doesn't like. This would allow administrator's the power to control the ideas and concerns of the residents. Of course profanity and attacks on individuals should be remove promptly.