Moderation and spam have been incorporated into the abuse workflow (all content is moderated through the abuse management interface) in release 10.0. In this workflow, content is:
Moderated -> Reported -> Appealed -> Reviewed -> Hidden or Removed
These actions extend to all posts, comments, and content in this release. When a user is moderated, all of his/her content is moderated.
The points of moderation and spam's incorporation into the abuse workflow are:
- Pre-emptively moderating spam content and comments.
- Detecting spam when the content is posted.
- Reviewing and/or removing abusive content after it has been published.
Content is moderated through the Abuse Management interface.
When content is in the abuse workflow, users who are trying to access moderated or abusive content can see that the content is under review, but still exists, and the user will see a message that the content is under review. If they navigate to the page where the content is located, they see a message that it is currently unavailable because it is pending review.
This approach is different from moderation in that: content identified as spam enters the workflow as abusive content. This content is cycled through the workflow as it is managed.