Message for Caitlin1080
Mon, 30 Mar 2009, 09:23 amadministrator5 posts in thread
Message for Caitlin1080
Mon, 30 Mar 2009, 09:23 am...and Noticeboard, The Don, Theatreshow, DavidWilding... while we're at it, anyone else who has multiple accounts registered on the site.
I sincerely appreciate the constructive contributions many of you make to the website and I do understand that there are legitimate reasons for sometimes having more than one account registered. However, these legitimate reasons do not extend to using multiple accounts to moderate posts up to or down from the home page.
In a democracy people are entitled to one vote. If I encounter evidence of this type of abuse I will render accounts inactive. If the activity persists you will find that your access to the site is blocked and you receive a simple error message.
Finally, please do ensure that the email address you register with is actually read occasionally. If you've ever wondered why multiple accounts suddenly stop working or the website has seemed to be off the air for several days, you may find a message in your inbox from me informing you that accounts have been rendered inactive or access has been banned. I've resorted to this public post because multiple emails regarding past bannings and account deactivations may not have reached Caitlin1080 et al.
By all means contact me at theatre@theatre.asn.au if you would like me to reinstate access.
Cheers
Grant
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Mon, 30 Mar 2009, 08:59 pmThanks for the question Na.
> how to treat members who, whilst posting relevant stuff, border on spamming.
In a nutshell, I endeavour to treat all contributors with respect in the expectation that this will be reciprocated.
If a post or posts are even remotely on topic, I'm inclined to let them stay as they may be of particular interest to others - who am I to judge? When in doubt, let the post stand.
Where there are posts of the same or largely similar information to one or several forums, a polite personal approach either privately or publicly is usually all that is required to ensure the behaviour isn't repeated.
Jeffhansen has asked about commenting behaviour in one particular thread. While it appears to me the comments are a transparent attempt at promotion and they've been moderated accordingly, they are on topic and are certainly not spam.
There are occasional posts that are clearly and totally irrelevant and are obvious efforts at link farming. I have no hesitation in tagging the spam and blocking the accounts.
Except for dealing with spammers, I don't think it is appropriate to have a policy that leads to banning members. This should always be a course of last resort when all other efforts fail.
Where multiple accounts are being used by the same person to moderate the same post several times this goes beyond a matter of interpretation and is clearly a deliberate abuse of the services on the site. In the past I've sent several warning messages. When the behaviour continued I eventually banned for a seven day period. It was only when the behaviour continued that I realised the person involved may have received none of the earlier messages. The ban may have been unnecessary if I'd tried other means of contacting this person sooner. Hence, the public post that started this thread.
Cheers
Grant
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