I don't think spam will be a big issue as long as we can moderate and ban. On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 1:11 PM, Jonathan Malmaud <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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]> 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 >>>>> >>>>> 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 >>> >> > >
