Meta has a good pace of updating its products. And one of the most used in the world is WhatsApp, the instant messaging service par excellence. In this sense, new functions have been included for group chats - or WhatsApp groups -, where their administrators will have more prominence. And one of them is being able to activate the 'functionsubmit for admin review'. We explain what this update consists of.
Groups of WhatsApp They can be a mess. And, depending on the number of participants, Administrators have more responsibility for them, having to moderate the messages posted there.. However, it is impossible to have enough time to keep up with each publication. The WhatsApp team has taken this into account and has launched what they called 'send for admin review'. A new moderation tool that will allow all members of the chat to participate in this task. Continue reading to find out how to activate it and how it works.
WhatsApp continues to grow and adds more features to its communities and group chats
WhatsApp has become a media of dissemination. And even more so since it was possible to create groups in which different users could participate. Such is the magnitude that the groups have reached, that Meta has provided new functions to its instant messaging service.
Their administrators can become overwhelmed with so many messages. And it is impossible to moderate these groups without outside help. Meta knows this and wanted to add what is called 'send for admin review'. Besides, The owners of the groups - the administrators - can also approve (or not) new members; That is, finally having more controlled chat groups with powerful tools that do not leave chat rooms unmoderated.
Submit for admin review – a powerful collaboration tool
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As we explained to you, It is impossible for the administrators of a group to always be aware of the WhatsApp channel. And more so, when the group is too crowded. Hence, in recent months Meta has been working to bring new moderation tools. And the last one appeared is 'Submit for admin review'. What will be achieved with this tool? Well, the participants themselves can send certain messages published in the channel so that they can review them and decide what to do, with the message and with the user in question.
For the moment, It will only come to the Android platform, although it is not ruled out that it may appear on other platforms in the following weeks. Now, although the tool is available, it must be activated from the messaging platform settings. Of course, only those who have administrator 'powers' will be able to do so. Remember that the channel creator himself can decide whether to place more administrators in the group chat so that they can lend a hand with the content, as well as add new participants. But well, focusing on the new tool, in order to activate it, you must do the following:
- Go to WhatsApp and choose the group chat of which you are an administrator
- Go into 'settings' giving the channel photography
- If you go down, you will be able to see that the 'Group Settings'
- Default, The only options that will be active will be 'Edit group settings' and 'Send messages'; All the others for them to take effect you must activate them and 'send for admin review' is one of them
You already have the option active. Now what? How does 'submit for Admin review' work?
After activating the new tool - remember that This will arrive with the latest update of the application, so check that you have it updated -, now is the time to know how it works and how you can see if you have messages to moderate. According to her own report WhatsApp on your blog, the tool is easy to use. In addition, you will have all the information organized so that you can even know who sent the message so that you can approve it. Although we also warn you that as a group administrator you will have two days before the review request expires. But let's go into more details:
- You will receive a notice that there are messages pending review - only active during the next 48 hours -
- You need enter the group indicated in the message
- Give the group name from within the chat and check the 'sectionSubmitted for admin review'
- If you want to know who sent the reported message, you must select the option 'Submitted for review by participants'
- Now press and hold the message that has been sent to you for your monitoring and you will have to decide what to do with it: remove it -for you or for all participants- or, Report it -There will be two options, in this case: Report and send it to WhatsApp or Report and block'-
Lastly, remember that This message will reach all administrators of a WhatsApp group. Therefore, it cannot be moderated by two users at the same time. In short, a new way to keep at bay all those users who post sensitive material that could offend other participants.