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[Neil]

Originally Posted by soundian

Disallowing comments is not going to work, I could post any old shit then, and no-one could pull me up about it.
If you want an articles section, strict moderation is the only way it'll work. Until I get the promise of strict moderation, my article will stay offline, and I certainly won't post any more.

Articles themselves are moderated and so people can't post "any old shit" if they so desired even if replying to the said articles was prevented as we simply wouldn't allow the article to be approved in the first place.

All the staff try their hardest to moderator this web site the best they can. We are volunteers and do not promise to monitor the web site 24x7 as we have our own lives and jobs to tend to. We certainly can't read every post and thread that is posted on the web site (there is hundreds of posts made each day) and so will always strongly rely on people reporting particular posts in order to bring them to our attention. If this is not good enough for you then I can only apologise but it is the best we can do at present.

What if we also moderated replies to articles? It would add work on our part but would this satisfy people's concerns?

[Cloud]

Originally Posted by Stripey

I've actually been trying to decide wether to take my articles offline aswell, since there seems to be no benefit and have had several insulting comments from people who obviously dont understand the point in trying to share things.

Same thing that's stopped me posting an article.

Neil, could you not introduce something where all comments made in reply to an article are screened by a staff member before they get posted? It'd be subjective, but surely it wouldn't take more than a couple of seconds to decide whether a comment is suitable?

[Neil]

Originally Posted by Cloud

Neil, could you not introduce something where all comments made in reply to an article are screened by a staff member before they get posted? It'd be subjective, but surely it wouldn't take more than a couple of seconds to decide whether a comment is suitable?

I could indeed. See my last comment above.

Originally Posted by Cloud

Neil, could you not introduce something where all comments made in reply to an article are screened by a staff member before they get posted?

i was just away to sudjest that...

[soundian]

Originally Posted by Neil

Articles themselves are moderated and so people can't post "any old shit" if they so desired even if replying to the said articles was prevented as we simply wouldn't allow the article to be approved in the first place.

All the staff try their hardest to moderator this web site the best they can. We are volunteers and do not promise to monitor the web site 24x7 as we have our own lives and jobs to tend to. We certainly can't read every post and thread that is posted on the web site (there is hundreds of posts made each day) and so will always strongly rely on people reporting particular posts in order to bring them to our attention. If this is not good enough for you then I can only apologise but it is the best we can do at present.

What if we also moderated replies to articles? It would add work on our part but would this satisfy people's concerns?

I thought you would moderate everything on the articles section a bit heavier, it's not as if there's a lot of traffic. (Find todays posts should suffice)

If you guys mod it properly, I'll continue to contribute. If there's any doubt about the comment ,maybe slinging the author of the article a quick PM would help.

At the end of the day, having a good article followed by three pages of personal attacks/abuse doesn't help anyone to learn anything, apart form "Don't go to AB-Mus, it's a viper pit"

[Neil]

Okay, let’s just keep it simple. From immediate effect all new articles as well as all replies are now moderated.

[soundian]

Originally Posted by Neil

Okay, let’s just keep it simple. From immediate effect all new articles as well as all replies are now moderated.

I thought they would've been from the start, after all the promises of tighter modding on the new site.

Thanks Neil, I'll put it back up as soon as I see the offending posts gone, [edit]or I would've if someone hadn't deleted the entire article.

[Neil]

Originally Posted by soundian

I thought they would've been from the start, after all the promises of tighter modding on the new site.

Thanks Neil, I'll put it back up as soon as I see the offending posts gone, [edit]or I would've if someone hadn't deleted the entire article.

The article is back now. I just deleted the whole thing before when you removed the article as there wasn't much point keeping it there.