moderation

[Frederick Polgardy]

Can we possibly turn on moderation for posts? The spam isn't horribly
frequent yet, but it is getting annoying. I can help moderate during
normal weekday work hours, if that helps.

-Fred

[James Reeves]

I agree it's annoying, but moderation seems a bit extreme. As far as
I'm aware, the Clojure group seems to get on okay without moderation.

Anyone know of any other method we could use to stop the occassional
spam message getting through?

- James

[Sean Devlin]

I hear tar & feathering the spammers sometimes works.

[Kevin Martin]

Requiring membership to post and then validating new members works pretty well.  It is slightly annoying but much less so that moderation on all posts.

-Kevin

[James Reeves]

On Jun 19, 6:09 pm, Kevin Martin <martink...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Requiring membership to post and then validating new members works pretty
> well.  It is slightly annoying but much less so that moderation on all
> posts.

There is an option to only moderate new members. Presumably that means
the first post from a member would be moderated, but all subsequent
posts would not be.

- James

[Chouser]

I believe this is the current setting.

--Chouser

[Frederick Polgardy]

That's actually what I was thinking, to make it membership-based.  You just request to join, somebody approves you, and you're good to post.

-Fred

--
Science answers questions; philosophy questions answers.

[Rich Hickey]

Only members can post + new members are moderated works well.

Rich

[James Reeves]

On Jun 19, 7:02 pm, Rich Hickey <richhic...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Only members can post + new members are moderated works well.

If this works well on the Clojure group, it'll probably solve our spam
problem here, too.

My time is limited to after-work hours, so I'll need a few other
moderators to help me out. Do I have any volunteers? :)

- James

[Nicolas Buduroi]

I could give a hand, I'm generally checking the group in the morning
or at noon.

- budu

[Luke Renn]

On Jun 28, 1:32 pm, James Reeves <weavejes...@googlemail.com> wrote:

> My time is limited to after-work hours, so I'll need a few other
> moderators to help me out. Do I have any volunteers? :)

I'd be willing to help as well.

Luke

[Frederick Polgardy]

Sure.

[Daniel Renfer]

The nice thing about a group like this is the number of first time
posters is generally pretty low. You could probably get away with 3
mods. (James and 2 others.)

If you're still in need of mods, I'm willing to help out. It would
probably be a pretty boring job anyway.

[James Reeves]

Okay, the four people who kindly volunteered should now have
management access. Moderation for first-time posters has been turned
on.

- James

On Jun 30, 11:19 pm, Daniel Renfer <d...@kronkltd.net> wrote:
> The nice thing about a group like this is the number of first time
> posters is generally pretty low. You could probably get away with 3
> mods. (James and 2 others.)
>
> If you're still in need of mods, I'm willing to help out. It would
> probably be a pretty boring job anyway.
>

> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Frederick Polgardy<f...@polgardy.com> wrote:
> > Sure.
>

> > On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 12:32 PM, James Reeves <weavejes...@googlemail.com>