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By dczmann on
Hi, I am currently setting up a community web site primarily for our county and surrounding towns. I think that I am about 1/2 way done before 'going live'. What I am looking for is feedback, advise on how to moderate a community site. For example, allowing any registered user to post and publish automatically, vs, all postings get reviewed, etc etc.
I have seen some discussion on 'terms of use statements', user recommendations and flaging of offensive behaviour, but am interested in what others do.
Ideally I think have a peer review and recommendation system set up would be preferable, but at first this site may have only me as the reviewer and the last thing I want is to log in and see that I have a hundred requests for approval for posts. OK well maybe having that many requests would mean the site is a success, but I am definately not looking to have this be my full time job.
Comments, suggestions welcomed and thanks in advance.
Comments
Requiring all content to be
Requiring all content to be moderated is great if you have a relatively small amount of content being posted and/or the content does not need to be posted very quickly. If announcements and other information needs to be posted in a timely manner it is often better to allow information to be posted automatically and to moderate the content after it has been posted, pulling any problematic content at that point.
It may allow some stuff that breaks your ToS in their, but in most cases if your user base is relatively well behaved it is a better solution.
Additionally, if you place a layer of protection before a user is given the ability to post (can't post for first 24 hrs) you can deter spammers and heated malicious users. And if all users require administrator permission to join then there will typically be fewer issues.
along with DVkids comments,
along with DVkids comments, you may want to investigate the flag_content module which will help let your community throw spam and such into the moderation query if something gets by.
the akismet.module is also good for this type of thing as it will help pick up spam.
abuse module
You might also want to keep an eye on the abuse module.