Troll Control: 5 Things Not to Say
Rosemary O'Neill
Community Management
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Crowdstack DiscussionIs there a way an admin can temporarily mute a member for a designated time period rather than ban them? It would send a clear message of a rule infraction.
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Blog Post CommentIt's a little like playing Whack-a-Mole, but we do use the moderation rules to keep spammers in check.
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Blog Post CommentWhack a mole is right! Too bad there's no scoring system...might make it more fun.
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Blog Post CommentSilly question - but if Akismet is free for personal use, why is it to be a paid add-on?
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Blog Post CommentMorgan- It will be a paid option because we will be tightly integrating it with Hoop.la's existing content moderation system, including options to send spam-detected posts to the Hoop.la moderation queue, delete automatically, and delete and ban users automatically. We will also have a "restore" queue for deleted spam.
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Blog Post CommentOkay got it - so it's Akismet spam control on crack. Thanks for the explanation!
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Topic ReplyHi, Derek! You can create an Automation Rule that comps them a Premium Membership based on their response to a profile field: 1. In Automation Rules, add a new Rule, and give it a name ("Comp Premium Membership for Retired Members", for instance). 2. The Trigger will be "Member Registers". 3. For Condition, choose Profile File Field Value, and then scroll to the appropriate listed field (you can choose more than one value, so here's your chance to choose both "Retired" and "Disabled" if...
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Blog Post Comment❤️Great points Rosemary. Maybe this could be a Hoop.la blog post. ST
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Blog Post CommentI personally feel that holding public debates is the way of maintaining civility..... And your ideas seems to be quite promising. Thanks for sharing. las vegas real estate
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Blog Post Comment😂I think I'm more of the Lifeguard type....who likes the occasional rousing game of Marco Polo.
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Blog Post CommentI think there's still a place for a little bit of Stalin. Ok, maybe not in the arena of criticism, and some controversy is always going to happen. I've had to perform one execution as a moderator and I've never regretted the decision, though with different tools and more experience I might have been able to find a better way (though I still doubt it). Other than that, I guess I'm bits of all of these - if I had to pick one, I'm more of a border collie, but without the idea of the "correct"...
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Blog Post CommentI think I'm a cross between the Ninja and Bozo the Clown.
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Blog Post CommentIs one of the duties of the Administrator to create fancy, well structured lists? Because I must say, good job!
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Blog Post CommentGreat idea, Ted! We occasionally have spammers register and then try to promote products that have nothing to do with our site. The posts get reported by other members and we zap 'em, but by using this recipe the posts would never be seen by anyone in the first place. Nice.
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Blog Post CommentIs there a recipe for what we deal with? I have posting from email on. Our forum email gets heaps of spam. Hoop.la treats each spam email like a new member trying to register. The post is in the moderation queue so at least nobody sees the spam. But I wish that we could allow "posting via email" but auto decline any registration that appears to come from a first email. Any recipe for that? That would save me daily time in manually declining obvious spammers. Thanks.
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Blog Post CommentHi Deb- Your scenario is not supported in that we would need to have a condition that checks to see if the content is submitted by email. I think that is a great idea, though, so we will consider adding that for a future release. Once we support that, you can just create a 'moderate content' recipe and set a condition for content posted by email. You may want to post this as an idea in our support site , if you want to be notified when that is added a feature.