To just the author and mods, unfortunately we cannot support this yet, as we don't have a "post author" pseudo-group. That is a good idea, though. We did accomplish this via nodebb-plugin-support-forum, you could try this and see if it still works?

@omega yes, unless they are in an exempt group. You can use rewards to grant users some exempt role and bypass that problem (e.g. after they have some posts, reputation, or simply old enough account). As for the plugin - it won't respect the reputation threshold at all, though now you can make it respect exempt groups and privileges (so your moderators won't have to approve their own posts)

Thank you @PitaJ , request module worked.

Do i need to run the link commands?