Spam/Nuisance Posts

Mon, 7 July 2008, 12:26 pm

jeffhansen24 posts in thread

This is an open post to the administrator of the site. This site used to be a valuable tool for those of us in the theatre community to find useful information and share our thoughts with others. Of late, it has become a bitchfest. I would like to see posts retricted to signed up and verified members only. While this wouldn't stop completely the post hijacking that is currently destroying this site, it would mean that you would need to take the time to sign up a membership, which could subsequently be revoked if site rules are abused. Obviously this is not a panacea, but I think will help this site grow. I'm fed up with the crap! Jeff

Worthwhile sentiments...

Mon, 7 July 2008, 08:08 pm

Grant Malcolm

While I appreciate some of Jeff's sentiments, I'm not sure that we're exploring new ground here.

http://www.theatre.asn.au/poll/forum_posts

http://www.theatre.asn.au/comment/reply/31187/37988#comment-37988

As Na has correctly commented, a very recent incident where one person created six accounts using hotmail addresses and then used them to moderate posts up and down, amply illustrates that registration offers no barrier to abuse.

If you want to reduce the noise, it may be useful to try changing your "comment viewing options" to display only good comments or the best of the best. However, this is entirely dependent on people actually moderating comments... which hasn't been happening a great deal.

There are some further changes in the offing... an upgrade later this year will improve comment moderation allowing for comments to effectively be moderated out of view rather than just reducing to a title. Once again, the success or failure will rely on people actually moderating.

Cheers
Grant

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Director, actor and administrator of this website

Thread (24 posts)

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Spam/Nuisance Posts— jeffhansen7 July 2008

We've already had this— Na7 July 2008
- I suspect the admin people encourage nusiance post— Walter Plinge10 July 2008
  - Did we encourage you to— Na10 July 2008
  - I suspect Wake Up is a troll— jmuzz10 July 2008
I'm not in any way wanting— jeffhansen7 July 2008
- "I'm not in any way wanting— Na7 July 2008
- Worthwhile sentiments...— Grant Malcolm7 July 2008
Forum rules— jeffhansen7 July 2008
- Digging around— Na7 July 2008
  - Just throwing around some— jeffhansen7 July 2008
- Moderation and removal of posts— Grant Malcolm7 July 2008
  - Couldn't say it better than that— Na7 July 2008
    - I'm all for "why can't we— jeffhansen7 July 2008
- "Sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me" etc...— Bass Guy8 July 2008
Previous thread— jeffhansen7 July 2008
A couple of thoughts.....I— jeffhansen12 July 2008
- You may not see 'nuisance'— Na12 July 2008
- Dealing with nuisances— Grant Malcolm13 July 2008
  - Well said Grant— Logos13 July 2008
Well....I shall await the— jeffhansen12 July 2008
This site has absolute no— Walter Plinge13 July 2008
spam/nuisance posts— Walter Plinge14 July 2008
- What's obscene? You're— Na14 July 2008

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