Hmm... so anyone who sees a topic can submit to it, and turning off the queue for such submissions can't be done on a topic-per-topic basis? Hmmmmm....
Is there any work-around for this? We have ideas for multiple Topics, but pretty much our bare minimum for this site is two specific ones:
(A) a Topic called Newswire that anonymous users can post to without a submission queue.
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a Topic called Features that only Admins can moderate and/or post to, with approval required for any submissions.
One thought that comes to mind is that maybe there's a simple hack to ensure that the Topic called Features will not appear on the list of Topics on the Contribute/Submission page. That way, anyone could post to the rest of the Topics, but not to that one, because they couldn't find it on the pull-down menu. Then, only an Admin would have permissions to move a pre-existing post over to Features. It's not a terribly graceful solution, but it might work, and might be simple.
Another thought is that maybe I could insert some sort of hack into the submission queue code so that it would look at what the topic in question is before deciding to queue or not queue. I haven't dug around yet to find that part of the code, but that solution would probably take a lot of work...
What do you think? I suppose I could go with another software for this site... but the other option that was recommended is Drupal, and I don't have any experience with it. I'd rather go with Geeklog because I have experience with this (and it seems pretty cool to me .