Re: Moderation
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Feb 04, 2015
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Jim, I seriously believe that no one should be banned as such.
No one was banned as such. So, we don't have a problem here?
Instead we could require that, once the forum categories/sections are implemented (as per current plans), people with weird posts be restricted to a FreeTalk section (unmoderated posts, off-topic posts, hilarious contents, cranks, etc).
By setting an option, each user will be given the choice to automatically filter out all posts belonging to that category. This way wveryone will be happy, hopefully. Serious programmers will no longer be disturbed by cranks.
This was proposed in the past and rejected. (If we want to name names, mattlewis is the one who keeps rejecting the concept of splitting the forum into two or more.)
Another solution could be a censorship system at the user's level: each user will be able to ban any given poster from his view. I may dislike a person's posts but this does not mean that they must be unacceptable to everyone. If I get to filter them out at the individual level, this would instantly solve the problem.
This is a good idea. I think some global moderation would still be necessary though - we wouldn't want the forum database to fill up with advertising spam, for example.
