How about a Moderator to get rid of the non-computer "junk" posts

[Brendan]

How about a moderator to get rid of the non-computer related posts (i.e. Dogs
in China, A Good Sexy Hotline, etc.)?

Brendan

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[Jezebel]

Are you offering to pay for it?

 

[Cindy M.]

Hi Brendan,

How about a moderator to get rid of the non-computer related posts (i.e. Dogs
in China, A Good Sexy Hotline, etc.)?

There is a service in place that filters and removes them. But those who get
their kicks (or money) from this kind of thing are always figuring out new ways
to get around the automatic filters. So sometimes it takes a while to get the
things cleaned up again. From the time-zone I'm in, I haven't seen any new ones
since Monday/Tuesday, when the latest round started...

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Brendan]

Why do you have to pay for a moderator? I'll do it. Give me permissions to
moderate the forum and have each post sent to me via email so I can proof it.
You can set the default to be posted if there is no action taken. As Cindy
M pointed out there is a filter that is used but sometimes the bad guys
figure out ways to get through.

 

[Cindy M.]

Hi Brendan,

Why do you have to pay for a moderator? I'll do it. Give me permissions to
moderate the forum and have each post sent to me via email so I can proof it.

Of course, the other side of the coin is: where does the moderator stop, once
s/he gets started ?

Don't get me wrong, I originally come from the old, moderated CompuServe
forums. And I'm currently a moderator in a Microsoft web forum. But the
"tradition" of the newsgroup is open, free-for-all, no moderation. Fine, in
principle, if everyone in the world is a responsible person who respects
others' rights. In reality, of course, things have turned out quite
differently. Microsoft finally acquiesced to the need of filtering, but actual
moderation...

Looked at in this light, I must say, the office newsgroups in general are an
excellent community

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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