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A hardware/software support forum which requires numbers AND mixed case in the password?? Egads! Whats next? Including symbols??? Outside of my BANK, this is the ONLY website that I've visited in r...
To discuss what moderating tools are available to a moderator here would just be speculation. I have the habit (from being a moderator, I guess) of tracking down and reporting all spam posts of a "member". I hope it is helpful to this forums moderator but don't know for sure.
Blanket deletes can be troublesome. While in the case of a true spammer, they would be helpful, in other cases not so much. If a discussion gets heated and language degrades (something I have never seen here, thank goodness) you might want to delete one post but not the others. In the case of the other forum where I am a mod, there is a tool that we can "unapprove" all posts by a particular member, and in that case only the mods and professional staff can see them. Regular members do not see those posts. We can then go back and approve any that are ok. In the summary listing of topics for the mods (on the other site) there is a field that turns pink to indicate unapproved posts and the actual post in the thread has a pink background. We can also "unapprove" a single post or edit it as we need.
I guess the one thing that is really nice on this forum is the courtesy shown in the posts.
Blanket deletes can be troublesome. While in the case of a true spammer, they would be helpful, in other cases not so much. If a discussion gets heated and language degrades (something I have never seen here, thank goodness) you might want to delete one post but not the others. In the case of the other forum where I am a mod, there is a tool that we can "unapprove" all posts by a particular member, and in that case only the mods and professional staff can see them. Regular members do not see those posts. We can then go back and approve any that are ok. In the summary listing of topics for the mods (on the other site) there is a field that turns pink to indicate unapproved posts and the actual post in the thread has a pink background. We can also "unapprove" a single post or edit it as we need.
I guess the one thing that is really nice on this forum is the courtesy shown in the posts.
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