Suggestion: new account comment moderation [LWN.net]

Suggestion: new account comment moderation

Posted Nov 20, 2003 15:57 UTC (Thu) by pspinler (subscriber, #2922)
Parent article: On comment abuse

How about a scheme whereby postings from new accounts are moderated (say for 2 weeks, or a month, or whatever), after which posting is essentially open. Note that the moderation period should began with the first attempted posting, rather than from account creation.

If a particular commenter is found to be abusive, that account can be re-enabled for another month of moderation.

Oh, and moderation should be by the community, rather than by the editors.

Key points of this idea:

1) It protects to some extent against auto-spambots

2) It gives you, LWN, less liability if comments are moderated by people other than the editors

3) It doesn't restrict postings by valued non-subscribers

Your thoughts ?
-- Pat

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Suggestion: new account comment moderation

Posted Nov 20, 2003 17:15 UTC (Thu) by hingo (subscriber, #14792) [Link]

This is what is possible with many email-lists. Moderate n first posts for each user, after that, let them post unmoderated. Subscribers could be unmoderated from the beginning, I can't see that anyone would actually pay for the pleasure of posting a troll.