Community moderation tools that keep your members safe

Every Vonza community has a Moderation area with a queue in five tabs: Reported, Flagged, Pending approval, Rules and Audit log. You can approve, hide or delete content and warn, mute or ban its author. Rules cover banned words, approval of a new contributor’s first posts and blocking links. Members can report content and block each other, and access can be set to By approval with membership questions.

In Settings, set Who can join to By approval. People then ask to join instead of joining straight away, and their requests appear under Members, where you approve or decline each one. If you later switch back to Anyone, Vonza offers to let everyone who is still waiting in at once, or to keep them for you to review.

Membership questions are available when Who can join is set to By approval. Each question can be a Short answer, Multiple choice (with 2 to 20 choices), an Email or a Phone number, and you can switch each one on or off. The answers are shown on the join request when you review it.

Under Moderation, then Rules, you can add up to 200 banned words and phrases, each under 60 characters. They are matched as whole words, in any case. You choose what a match does: Flag for review keeps the post up and puts it in the Flagged tab, while Hide until approved keeps it from members until you approve it. Block links treats any post or comment with a web address as a match.

Yes. Set how many of a new contributor’s first posts need approval, from 0 (off) up to 20. Those posts wait in the Pending approval tab until you approve or delete them.

A muted member can’t post or comment in the community until the mute ends. You pick 1, 3, 7 or 30 days, or any number of days up to 365, and you can unmute them early from Rules. A ban pauses their membership, so they lose access to the community until you resume them from Members.

Members use Report on a post, comment or reply, or on a member’s profile, and pick one of seven reasons: Spam, Harassment or bullying, Hate speech, Nudity or sexual content, False information, Off-topic or Something else, with optional details. The report goes to your Reported tab. The author isn’t told who reported.

Yes. When a member blocks someone, neither sees the other’s posts, comments or stories, and neither can message the other. The blocked person isn’t told, and the member can unblock them at any time from their You page. Community staff cannot be blocked.

No. Owners, admins and founders are never moderated: the rules do not flag or hold their posts, and the warn, mute and ban actions do not appear for them. Community moderators you add in Settings can work the queue with you, and every action lands in the audit log.