[Web4lib] Unmoderated posts on your site?

[B.G. Sloan]

  I regularly see blogs that weed out spam using 'captcha" technologies.
   
  Bernie Sloan 

Rick Mason <rcmason at rsproductions.net> wrote:
  Hi Colleen,

My suggestion, at least for your blogs, is to moderate. I am inclined to agree with you about the group being able to handle most "mean people" (and extreme cases can be banned when needed), but there is another factor: Spam.

Blogs are attracting spam like crazy. Think about what you get in a standard e-mail account without spam filtering. Certain medicinal substances, personal services, and overseas financial transactions dominate blog spam in the same way they dominate e-mail spam.

I suggest that you figure out what a reasonable turnover for moderating comments will be based on your staff workload, then incorporate a message letting users know that their comments may not show up for ##minutes/hours/days.

Hope this helps!

Rick Mason

http://blog.librarysupportstaff.org/

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> -------Original Message-------
> From: brazic at myuw.net
> Subject: [Web4lib] Unmoderated posts on your site?
> Sent: 29 Nov '07 15:13
> 
> 
> Do any of you that have blogs or social networking like ning on your Web sites allow unmoderated posts by your users? We are a public library system and I am inclined to recommend allowing unmoderated posts as I may not be able to find the staff to help moderate fast enough for the content to stay fresh. I tend to believe that the mean people will be shouted down by the majority of users. Is this a crazy idea? Am I being naive in thinking people will be nice?
> 
> Your experience and thoughts on this will be most welcome as well as links to your sites so I can show others where this is working. Thank you!
> 
> Colleen Brazil
> Content Access Manager
> Sno-Isle Libraries
> www.sno-isle.org
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