Moderation email option is confusing, limited

[andy]

The setting is "E-mail me whenever a comment is held for moderation" but in that sentence "me" is inaccurate; moderation emails are sent to admin_email.

"Email the admin ($admin_email) whenever" would be accurate.

Here's a related question: Why not send moderation emails to post authors?

[nacin]

#6286 #7235

I agree, if the post author does have comment moderation abilities and their email doesn't match the admin email, also send to them.

Related: tying the admin email to an "owner" account might be an interesting solution to a handful of related UX tickets.

[mrmist]

Perhaps this ticket could be renamed to something like "Introduce site owner concept".. I'll try to explain a bit more.

Many usability issue could be resolved by introducing a "site owner" concept. The site owner(s) would be responsible for site-wide matters, and would not necessarily be limited to administrator (permission set). Indeed, site owner may not be a permission set. (That probably relates to the other ticket #10201 but I digress)

Site owner might not be the only role required. For example, I'm thinking that "technical contact" might be important, too. To distinguish - site owner might run the site in terms of its content, and be interested in matters such as email approval, technical contacts would be interested in e.g. #14444 and similar. Internally, it might also be useful on larger blogs for members to know who has what areas of responsibility (so owners/contact might be visibly indicated.)

This is somewhat rambly, I apologise. The point I'm trying to get at is that there's a much wider issue than confusing moderation emails.

(In any event, this isn't a defect, it's a enhancement or feature request)

[nacin]

#7835

[nacin]

Re-opening for: "Why not send moderation emails to post authors?"

[chriscct7]

comment:4 and the site owner feature (which has a ticket on trac I can't find at the second) should be considered on new tickets, as they are out of scope for the original ticket.