Setting Up Content Moderation

How you set up moderation depends on the content type(s) and place(s) you want to moderate.

CAUTION:
Private content cannot be moderated. This includes content created in private groups, secret groups, private discussions, and Your Documents that have visibility limited to the author or specific users.

Setting Up Moderation in a Space, Project, or Group

Note: A sub-space inherits the moderation settings of its parent space. A project inherits the moderation settings of its parent space or group. If you try to change the moderation settings of a sub-space or project, you will break the moderation settings of its parent. Social groups are moderated by the root space moderator.
  1. Go to Admin Console: Spaces > Settings > Moderation Settings .
  2. Click Change space and select the space in which you want to enable moderation.
  3. Select the content type(s) you want to moderate in the space, for example, announcements, polls, documents, blog posts, and so on. You can choose one, several, or all. (All content types will go to the moderator(s) you designate. In other words, you can't have Joey moderate documents and Dee Dee moderate blog posts in the same space).
  4. Click Save changes.
  5. Go to Permissions > Space Permissions , and select the same space.
  6. Click Create a user override, select the user(s) you want to be moderator(s), and then click Set exception. Select User can manage space > Moderate. You could also set a whole group as the moderators by clicking Add group, selecting the group, setting the permission level to Moderate, and then Add Group.

Setting Up Blog Moderation

You can set up blog post moderation by following the instructions above in "Setting Up Moderation in a Space, Project, or Group" and selecting the content type "blog posts" from the Admin Console: Spaces > Settings > Moderation Settings page. All system, social group, and personal blog posts are moderated from the root space; space and sub-space blog posts will go to the parent space moderator. A project in a space or group inherits the moderation settings of its parent.

Blog comment moderation is set up by the blog's author for every kind of blog (system-level, space, project, group, and personal blogs). Blog owners set up moderation for a blog's comments on the blog's Blog Management > Options page. System administrators can also moderate blog comments for system, social group, and personal blogs from the admin console Blogs > Management > Comments page.

Setting Up Document Comment Moderation

Document comments can only be moderated by the document's author. This includes comments for all documents created in all places and Your Documents. The author enables moderation when creating or editing a document, and selecting Collaboration Options > Comment Policy > Moderated (Non-Authors comments will require approval) .

Moderation of Your Documents

If a user sets the visibility of a document saved in Your Documents to Open to anyone, and the root space has moderation enabled, the document will be moderated by the root space moderator.