[Web4lib] Unmoderated posts on your site?

[Tim Spalding]

Wiki spam is hard to handle because you can easily automate it. At
LibraryThing I put the wiki directory under a robots.txt exclusion.
This means that it hasn't been indexed by Google. Believe me, the
people who do wiki spam aren't reading through library blog prose
looking for references to wikis. They're Googling phrases that common
wiki programs kick out and get indexed by Google. If you're not
indexed, you won't be seen.

Tim

On 11/29/07, B.G. Sloan <bgsloan2 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>   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/
>
> ================================================
> > -------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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