About forum posting - creating forum filters

I've seen some new topics that are not at all related neither to the board they're listed in, nor to the Soft Mozart forum itself.

I would suggest to have a set of rules for membership and posting, as in any forum online and also measures to be taken if a member does not comply. Rules are good anywhere. We use rules in music too, right?

For instance, the member, in the cases mentioned above / spammers, can be advised to delete or edit the message to suit the board or that message or topic will be deleted by the administrator. And if the situation persists - and I think the programmers or website administrators can find out even the IP address of a person who makes different membership names - the member can be banned.

It would be such a pity to have the forum filled with non-useful stuff and to have new topics non-related to SM forum and its purpose.

And also, Hellene, if you think some things are way up your time possibilities, then find or choose forum moderators to help you with some things. Forums growing bigger, like Brillkids, use this structure, and it's pretty helpful.

Andrea

andreasro wrote: I've seen some new topics that are not at all related neither to the board they're listed in, nor to the Soft Mozart forum itself.

I would suggest to have a set of rules for membership and posting, as in any forum online and also measures to be taken if a member does not comply. Rules are good anywhere. We use rules in music too, right?

For instance, the member, in the cases mentioned above / spammers, can be advised to delete or edit the message to suit the board or that message or topic will be deleted by the administrator. And if the situation persists - and I think the programmers or website administrators can find out even the IP address of a person who makes different membership names - the member can be banned.

It would be such a pity to have the forum filled with non-useful stuff and to have new topics non-related to SM forum and its purpose.

And also, Hellene, if you think some things are way up your time possibilities, then find or choose forum moderators to help you with some things. Forums growing bigger, like Brillkids, use this structure, and it's pretty helpful.

Andrea

Yes, Andrea,
We are having some 'robots' posting spam every day. Amount of them is growing with the popularity of the site. They have nothing to do with Soft Mozart and we ban them with no warning.
There are about 20-30 a day, though and sometimes we are behind. We can add an option that called 'capture': before posting everyone should place letters or numbers shown above or below... But we think that we would try our best to clean the forum and if the situation will become more complicated, will ask for moderators - volunteers.

Oh, I see.Well, "capture" may be a bit annoying for a posting member, but it is used so often that I think people got used to it. Maybe you should use it too here. In this case the spamming problem perhaps would be solved without much trouble.

I hate capture, just for the record I would rather volunteer to delete the posts! I never get those letters right the first time! plus I check in here most days.
Is there a way to make everyone use capture just for the opening of a new topic? Or maybe just once for each person...rather than every post. It would be a pain to do it each time I updated my progress report. If it is robots they may give up on the first attempt but I know it's unlikely.

Mandabplus3 wrote: I hate capture, just for the record I would rather volunteer to delete the posts! I never get those letters right the first time! plus I check in here most days.
Is there a way to make everyone use capture just for the opening of a new topic? Or maybe just once for each person...rather than every post. It would be a pain to do it each time I updated my progress report. If it is robots they may give up on the first attempt but I know it's unlikely.

I don't like the capture either! If we'll have them -just for new members at the beginning to eliminate robots and spammers.

I am going to send the instruction about how to 'kill' the spam to all the members of our PTO tonight.

We will not give them any chance!

Manda, please, let me know, if you managed to read my personal message!
If not, please, drop me a line at admin at softmozart dot com