Review and moderate entries

Clear the residency approval queue, take down a photo or video, fix up an entry, or remove one entirely.

6 steps • Contests • Last updated: October 30, 2026 at 01:27 AM UTC

Where it lives Where it lives: Sidebar → Contests → your contest → Entries

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Moderation is yours, on the web

There's no report button for neighbors. Moderating a contest is an organizer job, done from the contest's page: the Entries tab lists every entry with when it came in, who sent it, the address, its categories, its photos and video, and its votes, with a search box and View details on each row. A video that is still processing or failed says so here, so you can spot one that will never appear.

Moderation is yours, on the web

If a neighbor complains about an entry, open it from here. Everything you might need to do to it is one click from its details page.

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Clear the approval queue

With the residency check on, entries from outside the boundary wait for you. The contest's page shows an Address Verification Required notice with the count and a Review Entries button. Each entry in Pending Entry Approvals opens to show the contact details, the address with Open in Maps, and a small map of the address against your boundary, then Approve Entry or Reject & Disqualify. Approving puts the entry on the public pages and the ballot exactly as submitted.

Clear the approval queue

Turn on the Unverified address entries notification (Organizer Notifications on the edit form) and you'll get an email the moment one lands in the queue.

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Reject with a reason

Reject & Disqualify opens a message to the entrant, prefilled with a polite note that their address is outside the neighborhood. Edit it, then Reject & Send Email. The entry is disqualified, which takes it out of voting, and the entrant gets your message by email. View History lists every approval decision with who made it and when.

Reject with a reason

Clear the queue before you open voting, so every entry on the ballot is one you've decided on.

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Take down one photo or the video

View details on an entry shows everything about it. Each photo has a Remove button, and an uploaded video has Remove video, so you can take down the one picture that shouldn't be there without throwing out the whole entry. Removed files are deleted for good.

Take down one photo or the video
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Fix up an entry for someone

Edit entry, at the top of an entry's details, opens the same page the entrant uses to manage their own entry, so you can swap a sideways photo, fix a category, or add a video they emailed you. It works only while the contest is accepting entries; after that the entry is locked.

Fix up an entry for someone

The entrant's confirmation email has the same link, so most fixes are one reply away: "use the link in your confirmation email."

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Remove an entry entirely

At the bottom of an entry's details, Danger Zone → Remove Entry from Contest deletes the entry with its photos, video, and every vote it received. Use it for a duplicate entry or one that breaks the rules. For a non-resident, prefer Reject & Disqualify in the approval queue, which keeps the record and tells the entrant why.

Remove an entry entirely

Removal can't be undone, and the votes it erases don't come back if the entrant enters again.

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