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community spam moderation (4.00/3) (#1)
by hellish on Fri Feb 06, 2004 at 07:49:40 PM PST
Nobody seems to rate comments. And really, do we need to? Obvious garbage can easily be deleted by an admin.

When and if this site grows, it'll be more and more difficult for our singular beloved admin(janra) to delete waste. If everyone can moderate, the load is distributed. I think it might be better to simply have a mark as spam checkbox, and once a comment got a number of marks equal or greater than a set threshold it could be hidden.

not a bad idea (4.00/1) (#2)
by janra on Tue Feb 10, 2004 at 08:48:00 AM PST
but incomplete, I think. Having a single "this is spam" checkbox isn't a bad idea in itself, but what if people decide to mark something as spam that isn't? The system as set up right now allows certain people (based on how they contribute) to vote to hide comments and to look at the comments others have hidden and vote to un-hide them if they feel the comments were unfairly hidden. However, this system only works if a people rate comments.

And as for the site growing and making it hard for me alone to delete garbage... well, I can give members editorial privileges as needed, so I won't always be alone :-)
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re (3.00/0) (#16)
by MP3DJAY on Mon Mar 20, 2006 at 09:25:24 AM PST
Hey all.
I use "bigsam guestbook" but lately i got some spam messages.

they say stuff like: "add spam protection and be happy"

ok... wat kind of protection can i use?
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I don't know, sorry (3.00/0) (#17)
by janra on Wed Mar 22, 2006 at 06:58:01 AM PST
I'm not familiar with bigsam guestbook. Perhaps you should contact the people who wrote it if you want to find out what anti-spam options you have?
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