dw_suggestions | Add Posting Filters to Communities

Title:
Add Posting Filters to Communities

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Summary:
Allow the creation of posting filters in communities, just as they are in personal journals.

Description:
There are times you, as an owner or moderator of a community, wish to speak to only a subset of the community, usually the other owners/moderators of the comm. You can set up posting filters in your personal journal to make an entry that's only visible to a selected group, but not in communities. Yes, you can do a workaround by sending your fellow admins email, but it can be useful [as well as easier] for there to be a record of "admin backchannel" right there in the comm itself. And right now, while a whole comm can be made private, you can't drop in posting filters to further create subsets.

If it existed, it could be managed by just adding another tickybox [or two] to the permissions the comm owner checks off when adding comm support personnel: one allowing the selected individual to see filtered entries, the other allowing them to create/edit filters. If the person left the comm, they would not longer be able to see such filtered entries; if they were removed as a moderator or administrator they could be removed from the filter. Their ability to delete filtered posts would be governed by the same permission they'd have to delete member posts, or, if they didn't have the user rights to create/edit filters, that could automatically deny them the user rights to delete filtered posts.

Poll #937 Add Posting Filters to Communities

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 38

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Should be implemented as-is.
12 (31.6%)

Should be implemented with changes.
10 (26.3%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
9 (23.7%)

(I have no opinion)
6 (15.8%)

(Other: please comment)
1 (2.6%)

Add Posting Filters to Communities

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