When a post is in the queue, the poster does not get enough feedback as to why people are voting the way they are. Although moderators can use comments to explain, this is seldom done and may become irrelevent or confusing when the post is no longer in the queue.

Of course there are many ways to handle this. Here are two options.

  1. As part of the moderation form, include a small textfield. moderators select the numeric value and can explain their reasoning.
  2. As part of the moderation form, include a pulldown menu with a few common reasons for rejection. Ie., off-topic, poorly written, too promotional, . The contents of this pulldown should be controlled in the admin section for queue.module.

Comments

killes@www.drop.org’s picture

killes@www.drop.org commented
Priority: Major » Normal

Good idea.

Additionally the node content and the reasons given (in comments or otherwise) should be mailed to the submitter.
He can then rework it and maybe get through with it.

Marking this for cvs, as it is new.

Bèr Kessels’s picture

Bèr Kessels commented

should be solved by actions.module (http://drupal.org/project/actions)