🛠️ Moderation Playground
This discussion is intentionally heated — it exists so you can practice moderator actions on real-looking content.
The replies below are seed data. Users user1 through user5 are arguing about moderation policy and taking shots at each other. None of them are real people; nothing here is anyone's actual opinion.
What to try
Log in as moderator (password: password) and try out:
- 🚫 Hide a post — click the post menu → Hide (it stays in the database, can be restored)
- ✏️ Edit a post — clean up an insult or remove a slur without deleting the whole reply
- 🔒 Lock the discussion — click the discussion menu → Lock (no new replies allowed)
- 📌 Sticky the discussion — pin it to the top of the list
- 🏷️ Re-tag — move it to a different category (e.g. from Off-Topic to Bugs)
- 🚷 Suspend a user — click a user's avatar → Suspend; they can't post for the duration
- 👁️ View flagged posts — once someone flags something, the moderator sees a flag indicator
- 🗑️ Delete a post or the whole discussion — permanent (but you have a fresh container to redo it)
Notes
- The admin account has all moderator permissions plus the Admin Panel. Use the moderator account to feel what a non-admin mod sees.
The moderation flow
Here's roughly what happens from a heated post to a resolution (rendered with the bundled Mermaid extension — write a mermaid fenced block in any post to make your own):
flowchart TD
A[User posts something heated] --> B{Anyone flags it?}
B -- No --> C[Stays visible]
B -- Yes --> D[Mod sees flag indicator]
D --> E{What's the right action?}
E -->|Borderline| F[✏️ Edit to clean up]
E -->|Off-topic / rude| G[🚫 Hide post]
E -->|Argument escalating| H[🔒 Lock discussion]
E -->|Repeat offender| I[🚷 Suspend user]
F --> J[Action logged]
G --> J
H --> J
I --> J
J --> K[👁️ Review in Admin → Log Viewer]
Now scroll down — the gloves are off. 👇
