On 07/17/2011 07:35 PM, Andre-John Mas wrote: > Hi, > > Has there been any effort to reestablish the mpd forums? > > I went searching for help setting up mpd, but found the forum was closed, due > to spam, which is a bit of shame. > > The videolan forums was having its fair share of spam problems, but for the > most part this has been stemmed. > Some of the solutions put in place include: > > - a captcha during registration. There was a re-captcha during registration. > - email account confirmation. That was there too. > - requiring all new users to have their first three posts being approved, > before being visible in the forum. That might have helped. However it would require the next point. > - a suitable number of moderators to keep things in check. There you have the real big issue. I was doing it on my own, nobody else cared or wanted to contributed to it. So after asking for help a few time, I gave up.
If you step up and want todo some of the work, we can reopen the forums. Q > > There were probably some other things put in place, but I don't recall. > > Andre > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > AppSumo Presents a FREE Video for the SourceForge Community by Eric > Ries, the creator of the Lean Startup Methodology on "Lean Startup > Secrets Revealed." This video shows you how to validate your ideas, > optimize your ideas and identify your business strategy. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appsumosfdev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Musicpd-dev-team mailing list > Musicpd-dev-team@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/musicpd-dev-team > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ AppSumo Presents a FREE Video for the SourceForge Community by Eric Ries, the creator of the Lean Startup Methodology on "Lean Startup Secrets Revealed." This video shows you how to validate your ideas, optimize your ideas and identify your business strategy. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appsumosfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Musicpd-dev-team mailing list Musicpd-dev-team@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/musicpd-dev-team
