Also on the moderation front, qualified users (those with a certain amount of earned trust) can flag a post as span, off-topic, or inappropriate. The forum moderator can configure how those flags are handled, including automatically hiding sufficiently flagged posts until an admin can review them.
> On Feb 23, 2016, at 1:03 PM, Jonathan Malmaud <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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] >> <mailto:[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> >
