Viral, https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-ideas-for-spam-control/10393/4 <https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-ideas-for-spam-control/10393/4> summarizes spam detection as of a few years ago - it’s presumably advanced in a few ways since then. There are major forums with >100k users using Discourse, so it must be at least reasonable. I’m not an expert on this though.
Moderation is definitely more sophisticated than Google Groups - users can be banned or hell banned, individual posts can be hidden, users can be made moderators with different tiers of powers, category tags can be reserved for use by specific users (eg, high-priority announcement tags). > On Feb 19, 2016, at 2:16 PM, Viral Shah <[email protected]> wrote: > > How are they with detecting spam and moderation? > > -viral > > On Friday, February 19, 2016 at 9:30:18 PM UTC+5:30, Jonathan Malmaud wrote: > Hi guys, > Discourse can be used as a mailing list just as Google Groups can, and it > should be possible to import the current subscribers to this email list to > Discourse. So it would be a pretty seamless transition. Then the people who > want to use the web UI, with its advanced features like syntax highlighting, > user-pinging, etc, can do so alongside those who continue to interact with a > Discourse-powered julia-users via email. > > There's one technical restriction on using Discourse via email - when you > reply to a post, you have to write your entire reply at the top of your > email. You can't reply inline to different parts of a message. They're > looking to fix that soon, and it seems a relatively minor inconvenience > compared to the advantages that Discourse will offer. > > On Tuesday, January 12, 2016 at 9:51:23 AM UTC-5, Charles Santana wrote: > My $0.02: I consider julia-users as a mailing-list. In general, my main > communication is through emails. I write the posts to the mailing list using > a webmail interface, but I use to read the posts of others from an email > client or from mobile. Of course I can adapt myself and use another platform > to communicate, but it would certainly take some time to be used to it. My > vote is to keep the mailing list working as it is, even if we decide to put > efforts in the other platform too. > > Best, > > Charles > > On 12 January 2016 at 14:46, Tom Breloff <[email protected] <>> wrote: > Just to throw in my $0.02... I use gmail most of the time, and I have a few > filters to auto-partition into a directory structure I like which combines > github and google groups emails. If I could no longer do this I would be > disappointed. > > On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 6:08 AM, Mauro <[email protected] <>> wrote: > I second Tamas: a good email interface is a must. This seems to be > lacking currently: > https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-interface-suggested-improvements/32140 > <https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-interface-suggested-improvements/32140> > > On Tue, 2016-01-12 at 11:32, Tamas Papp <[email protected] <>> wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 12 2016, DNF wrote: > > > >> Hmm, I didn't consider that. I *never* read the emails, instead using the > >> email notifications as jumping-off points to go into the forum. I always > >> thought it strange that people refer to posts as 'mails'. > > > > I don't see an alternative given my preferences --- as I said, I don't > > want to deal with different web interfaces. Also, sometimes I work > > offline. > > > >> But, surely, plain text for code is *terrible*. Wrong or no indentation, no > >> syntax highlighting, no font contrast between code and text? Or are you > >> able to achieve some of those with your Emacs setup? > > > > Fixed width font takes care of indentation. For short code snippets, I > > can live without highlighting, for longer code I prefer if people post > > it as a gist. > > > > Best, > > > > Tamas > > > > > -- > Um axé! :) > > -- > Charles Novaes de Santana, PhD > https://github.com/cndesantana <https://github.com/cndesantana>
