I've seen it implemented on other forums where you need 5 or 10 posts to put a link into your post, along with other restrictions.
Is this possible? Is it worth doing? Just a thought.
Is this possible? Is it worth doing? Just a thought.
Sounds like a good idea to me, notably as there is spam currently in the Apple Industry Discussion forum at the moment...
Once you get the hang of the accent grave...Nice pwn'ing en français, by the way.
Nice pwn'ing en français, by the way.
Once you get the hang of the accent grave...
(It's just above the Alt key, if you didn't know)
(It's just above the Alt key, if you didn't know)
Yeah! There's another forum I've poked around on and they have an annoying (but purposeful) dialogue box (asking you to read and follow the forum rules, do a search, etc.) any time you try to start a thread or post a reply-- for the first ten times.I've seen it implemented on other forums where you need 5 or 10 posts to put a link into your post, along with other restrictions.
The people who spend 90% of their waking hours at MacRumors (you know who you are)...
If we decided to adopt that system here, we would create "moderator nano" positions and recruit volunteers for the post approval team. However, that would be a lot of work simply to stop spam; deleting it after the fact is a lot less total work. Even though we have many dedicated members who would likely help us out by reviewing posts, I'd rather see them spend their time helping other people with problemsolving.Unfortunately it makes a lot of work for the mods, since every post has to be quickly skimmed for content. Of course, the traffic there is significantly lower than here, so it would be much more of a mod headache (here), but there's also significantly more active mods here than there.
Rob Griffiths, the arn of MacOSXHints...
If we decided to adopt that system here, we would create "moderator nano" positions and recruit volunteers for the post approval team. However, that would be a lot of work simply to stop spam; deleting it after the fact is a lot less total work. Even though we have many dedicated members who would likely help us out by reviewing posts, I'd rather see them spend their time helping other people with problemsolving.
Do you mean designated forums, not designated threads? There would be advantages to that (we've had a few suggestions about having a Games moderator). But if we really wanted some forums patrolled separately by "specialists", we'd have to have multiple Mod nanos for each forum, because each of them might want to sleep now and then, and maybe even go to school or work!The "Nano Mod" sounds like a good idea but rather then for spam control why not have them scattered throughout the forums and patrol a designated thread. The ones that the Mods might not have time to get to. This could also be handy during big events when site traffic would be high.
Don't give them full power but just the ability to tidy up a thread.
Of course, there's no proof that I don't run MacOSXHints (in my spare time) so it could be me!Ah. I thought I had found a leaked Doctor Q name.
Something like a floating mod, the only power would be to edit or delete posts. they can be assigned to a specific forum or can be just roamers of the whole site that just look for things that don't belong during their daily surfing.Do you mean designated forums, not designated threads? There would be advantages to that (we've had a few suggestions about having a Games moderator). But if we really wanted some forums patrolled separately by "specialists", we'd have to have multiple Mod nanos for each forum, because each of them might want to sleep now and then, and maybe even go to school or work!