On 8/02/2004 tepas wrote:
>If you actually _delete_ spam and trolls, you open yourself up to claims
>of censorship
I completely reserve the right to delete, at will, any offensive post that steps over the bounds (see help pages), or is just a total waste of space (re user: "oink"). This forum is moderated, by me, probably not quickly enough. I came in this morning to find endless one sentence drivel posted by this user. I would like to delete this account entirely and all posts made by this account. This means also deleting all replies to his posts in the topic entitled "the thing is". If anyone has any objections please state, otherwise I'll be deleting it.
Yes appointing other administrators to help now seems like a good idea, given that I can't be reading every post as it's made. Yes, email verification also now seems like a good idea, will code it when I next get some spare time. Yes, blocking registration of black listed email addresses is also a good idea. It is unfortunate that our "open door" policy is going to have to be made more secure. |