What Is Moderation?
Nucleus Prayer offers two versions: free and paid. The main difference is that the paid version offers Moderation of prayers that are added to your church's Prayer Wall. (You also gain the ability to set up special inboxes that only those with access to those inboxes can see those prayer requests. This can even go so far as to exclude the Account Owner.)
What is the Prayer Wall?
The Prayer Wall is a place where prayer requests can be shared publicly to those in your church.
Just like any Flow or external URL, you can link your church's Prayer Wall directly in your Next Steps Launcher. To view the Prayer Wall, people must sign in and have the appropriate Connection Type with your church. This ensures proper privacy measures are taken to prevent prayer requests being shared with those outside of your church community.
To learn more about Connection Types and who can view/access your church's Prayer Wall, click here.
Can anyone submit a prayer request?
Yes! Anyone can submit a prayer request! And anyone can choose whether they want their request added to the Prayer Wall or just sent to the church (not shared publicly).
So how does Moderation work?
When you have Moderation activated, an admin now needs to manually approve any prayer request that is added to your church's public Prayer Wall. Think of the difference as this:
- Without Moderation, people don't need permission to post to your church's Prayer Wall. An admin can, of course, remove any prayer request added to the Prayer Wall, but there is no middle person to approve or reject the request to add a prayer request to the Prayer Wall initially.
- With Moderation, people can submit prayer requests to be shared to the Prayer Wall, but an admin must manually approve each and every single request that comes through. This helps ensure that all prayer requests shared publicly are indeed legitimate (not spam) and ensures that personal details that likely shouldn't be shared publicly are barred from being shared on your Prayer Wall.
How to activate Moderation
To enable Moderation in Nucleus Prayer:
1. Go to your Prayer app and select Prayer Hub. Click here for a quick link.
2. Then, select Settings in the sidebar.
3. Click the Turn on Moderation button. Or Enable Moderation. Whichever button suits your fancy 😄
Note:
- To turn moderation off, click the Turn off Moderation button.
Where to review prayer requests for the Prayer Wall
Once Moderation is enabled, you can then begin reviewing prayer requests. To do that:
1. Go to your Prayer app and select Prayer Hub. Click here for a quick link.
2. Then, select Needs Review in the sidebar.
3. Now, you'll see a list of all the prayer requests currently needing review to be added (or not) to your Prayer Wall. Since you'll only see a preview of each request in the list, to review the entire request, click the View button.
4. Here, you can read and assess if the prayer request should be added to the Prayer Wall.
5. Once you're done reviewing, click the Back to all button.
6. Next, click the down arrow button, and choose whether to Publish or Don't Publish that particular request to your Prayer Wall.
Note:
- Regardless of which option you select, the prayer request will still live in your Inbox, so don't worry - by clicking Don't Publish, you're not deleting the prayer request.