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Patrick_OSullivan
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I submitted a comment on an active thread and upon submission was told that my comment was awaiting moderation. Is this a new thing?
I understand there’s a spam problem, but needing comments to be reviewed will absolutely kill discussion and the spontaneity that comes from being to communicate basically in real time.
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In my experience the moderation never happens.
I think putting links in is what triggers the moderation.
That would actually make sense. I just posted in the thread about the recent increase in "intelligent spam" where I mentioned that the goal of those spammers is to sneak in a link to a product or service provider. Using a link to trigger moderation would probably catch pretty much all of the spam, while only affecting a pretty small amount of the regular discussions since people don't post links to things very often.
One exception I can see here is when people post links referencing earlier GBA Q+A threads or articles. Perhaps there is a way that posts with links back to other things on GBA can be excluded from being automatically flagged for moderation? That would also make life easier for the moderators/editors, since they would only have to deal with the posts with outside links, which are the ones much more likely to be spammers.
Bill
I post links relatively often. I think a real way to cut down on spam without stifling conversation would be to mark accounts exempt from such moderation. I think there's enough of us who post frequently enough that can be trusted to not be spammers.
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