No problem. It was good to be certain we have a good solution to the problem of moderation.

Keep those comments coming. They are more than welcome.

As usual, a misreading of the author’s proposal leads to various misunderstanding Please scrap that last comment of mine. Sorry for the hassle.

Here is how I see. Why would a moderator refuse to pass content into the “community voting” area? Two reasons I can think of are:
* either the content is obviously very bad or malfunctioning;
* or the content is objectionable in the sense that it is submitted to disrupt the system (something like wiki vandalism maybe).

The first case can easily be dealt with by the regular voters. I mean, who would vote for an obviously bad or malfunctioning theme/engine/etc.?

The second case is why I also propose a mechanism for moderators to delete certain items from the voting area. But this is POSTmoderation, not PREmoderation.

I see two advantages in my approach:
* less complexity;
* content will get to the ever-hungry users faster

And there is no damage to the overall quality, because content is still allowed into the “general public view” area only after a period of community voting.

But then we need an option for moderators to drop content from the review queue, e. g. if it is objectionable and has to be removed from public view.