I have some experience in moderating Googlegroups, stumbled on everything from regular bots to some determined individuals with personal issues. The most efficient policy was to moderate the new users and approve them after the first post. Everything else was a gamble and the spam got trough.
The main issue we had was that approving users sometimes took more than a few hours. It gave users an impression of prolonged moderation, although this really wasn't the case. But the internet and communication in general moves very quickly... new users expect to participate within minutes... new threads to answer, questions to make... It's just hard to wait. It's a perception issue, I think. If this group needs more hands & eyes, I'd be glad to help as much as time permits. Regards On Friday, March 13, 2015 at 3:14:39 AM UTC+1, Anthony wrote: > > On Thursday, March 12, 2015 at 5:51:00 PM UTC-4, Jack Kuan wrote: >> >> I too have a feeling that all my posts have been moderated because >> whenever I make a new post, I have to wait for hours or a day for it to >> show up in the group. >> > > Your posts are not moderated, but it looks like many existing members are > still moderated. > > Perhaps we could try turning off moderation, and instead of group owners > spending time approving new users or individual messages, we could instead > delete spam and block their senders. The latter task may end up being just > as easy and would remove a barrier for new users. > > Anthony > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
