1) is it not possible for forum moderators to receive email notices of pending comments/replies, from which they could then approve those posts?

and 2) Using Role Manager, for the Subscriber role if I uncheck "publish_topics", then the Subscriber can't publish comments/replies either. I want subscribers to be able to add comments/replies (so the edit_replies, publish_replies, edit_posts, publish_posts are all checked), but not create new topics.

I used to have bbpress a couple of years ago and I'm thinking about using it again, especially once the bbpress plugin is finished. Before I consider bbpress again I need to know if the system allows anonymous/guest posting and also if you can make it so that all posts must be approved before they go live on the site? Again, I have used bbpress but I don't remember if it has this functionality or not. I'm almost positive that it does not come with anonymous/guest posting (maybe there is a plugin?), but I'm thinking it might come with the approve before posting type option...

Basically I'm wanting to allow people to post discussions without registering. Since they won't have to register, I'll need to approve each post to ensure junk/spam isn't being posted.

Basically speaking on the new version you can specify that new topics and new posts must be hidden by default and that they can be reset (in this case "approved") by moderators through the admin panel. It functions already but I will release the 0.2 only after exaustive beta-testing _and_ if I got positive feedbacks.

That's probably his or her best best... it probably wouldn't be that expensive either.

For some people/organisations it's imperative that comments on the forum are moderated before they go live. In some situations this smacks of censorship, but for my client it's vital that only approved comments are posted.

Can some bright spark PLEASE build on the seemingly ideal bb-moderation-hold plugin?

Alternatively has anyone spent any time investigating how complex the job would be to make the plugoin mentioned by johnhiler (http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bb-moderation-hold/) work in upto date versions of bbpress?

If someone doesn't suggest one, your best bet would be to hire a developer to adapt the plugin to work for version 1.0+...

If so, this plugin is great but it only works with earlier versions of bbPress:
http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bb-moderation-hold/

I don't think there's a "hold for approval" moderation plugin that works with 1.0? But if someone knows of one, please post a link! It's come up a few times in the past few weeks...

I'm wanting to create a 'picture contest' entry page.
Memebers login, open then page, and upload an image to be voted/rated.

I'd like for Admin to approve each before making each entry visible on the frontend.

Thanks

oh by the way if any one wants to pay me.. by all means :)

cheers

If you're on an Apache web server, you want to look up "basic auth", .htpasswd and .htaccess if you want to do this.

For what the approval thing is needed, then? For example, Vanilla discussion forum uses registration approval in a way we would appreciate to copy for our project. The idea of people not registering an account but applying for one would suit our project really well. "Why do you want to join this forum?" is a question we would like people to answer before letting them post anything.

A Finnish online magazine covering ice hockey, Jatkoaika.com, has a forum that has grown into a lively discussion community for over 13,000 registered users without losing its, well, usefulness. It's not only because of strict moderation of discussions, they require their users to apply for registration as well. Given that the topic is ice hockey (you know, that game with all the tackling and fighting and strong emotions) and most forum users are hockey fans ("We want blood!") and male ("We want blood!"), we consider that a great role model for this forum project of ours, even though we don't expect our forum to become as popular (and we are not about ice hockey.)

(In what comes to our project, we might still decide to NOT having approval for registration. There are advantages in also not having that, of course.)

Someone would have to explain the need for registration approval to me before I would bother making such a plugin.