Thread:Enchanteddragons/@comment-32460917-20190308213536/@comment-33229352-20190314041503

Did some digging

The main discussions list can be sorted by Latest or Trending, which is where I think the upvotes come into play.

Looks like app users can get push notifications if someone responds to their thread

If you report content, it will show you and only you the you reported it and it will be sent to the moderators of the wiki. Only Admins and Discussions Moderators can see who reported it.They can also block someone from posting under a username, but the person could get around it by making another account, but i believe you need an account in order to post on Discussions anyways. Moderators can also edit the posts of other users and move them to different categories. It will show on the post that a mod has edited it. To other moderators, it will display the username of the editor.

Moderators can lock and unlock posts. They will be able to see comments that users delete. They also have the power to delete all of a users discussion posts, which would help combat spammers.

Like Chan said, Discussion posts don't show up on the recent changes page, but we can set up a special page on the wiki to monitor incoming posts with this user-created script.

We have a limit of 10 categories we can make. Deleting a category requires for those posts to be merged with another category (we could create an Archive category specifically to dump those posts)

Admins and moderators have access to a user's activity stats. This is to help spot potential moderators. This is what is logged:

Active Users shows which users have posted the most and the total number of their posts including replies, sorted by number of posts. This helps identify your most active Discussions users.

Reports lists those users who have reported the most posts in Discussions. The list also shows how many of their reported posts have subsequently been deleted, approved or are still awaiting moderation. You can use this to identify users who care about the community, know the rules well and can tell good posts from inappropriate posts. Someone who reports many posts that then get deleted is likely a good candidate for moderator.

Moderator Actions lists how active admins and moderators have been in Discussions and is sorted by number of most moderation actions taken. Deleting, locking, editing and approving a post, as well as changing a post's category, count as moderation actions. This helps identify candidates for promotion to admin, and shows if a moderator has been inactive. Category management actions by admins are also included in this total