By m_freeman2004 on

Hi,

I'm thinking of adding a forum to my Drupal 4.4.2 site but I'm worried I'll get overwhelmed by the moderation aspect of it: dealing with trolls etc etc. I'm short of time and wouldn't like it to take me away from other development. Is there any advice out there for a newbie moderator? Has anyone come across a useful FAQ or such like?

Thanks,

Marcus.

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Ties-1’s picture

Ties-1 commented

Get some moderators working for you. ;-)

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Bèr Kessels commented

But inded: getting moderators is the way to go.

In fact a forum is just like real life communities: It they know eachother and therefore have something to loose (friendship, hits etc) people will be glad to keep the forum in good shape together. You will then need loose moderation.

IF you do not have such a community, because of the nature of the user-base (swift and dynamic u-base) you will need strict moderation.

But in both cases you will have to get some people wiht moderation rights. And you will find them. without going into too much detail about dynamics of socuila networking etc. I can say that becoming a mod. in a community gives one status. So these people will be glad to help you out. A small reward, for example giving mods the ability to post avatars, will make it even more appealing.

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m_freeman2004 commented

Hi,

Thanks for the comments. I suppose I should have called this thread 'Advice for a forum administrator'! Getting people to become forum moderators isn't going to be a problem.

So, I've created a role called 'forum_mod' but there doesn't seem to be a permission called 'administer forums'. I might not want forum mods to be more general 'site mods'. What sort of permissions are generally granted to a moderator anyway?

Thanks.

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m_freeman2004 commented

Hey,

Just read the manual and it turns out that forum posts are 'comments'. Now the comment module has been turned on it's all beginning to make sense. It comes to something when you start answering your own questions!

M :)

Bèr Kessels’s picture

Bèr Kessels commented

thats what I call RTFMAATQYS (read the ... manual and answer the questions yourself). :)

But thanks a lot for reporting back. It might (or actually: will) help others lokking for the same answers!

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m_freeman2004 commented

Hey,

And it gets even better! You can configure drupal to only allow comments to forums. Finding how to enable commenting on existing forum topics took a while (create content >> forum topic >> user comments >> read/write). Also, the manual refers to 'posts' when it means 'comments'. 'Comments are posted' is much clearer.

Marcus.

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federico commented

I have several forums on my site, one person wants to create his own forum and pay me for that, i want to give him moderation rights to his forum, but not for the rest of the site, that is, he can delete comments on his forum, but not on the rest of the site.

Solution approaches:
- tool: access control - limitation: gives access to whole site
- tool: taxonomy access control - limitation: no "delete comments" option, only "view", "add", "delete" nodes, not comments.
- tool: na_arbitrator - It show be capable of assignig a moderator for each forum, perfect, that is what i nedd, but i intalled it and it doen't work.

Has anybody done something like this?

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