**@dataman** there is no "attitude" we just miss new people sometimes (that's a
forum issue that needs to be fixed), apologies.
Almost two days passed, and my first message is still moderated. I have never
seen such an attitude to users at any forum.
There was recently a controversial thread that is now "locked", and there was
some talk of deleting it ([Page 1 on
archive.ORG](http://web.archive.org/web/20170110174918/http://forum.nim-lang.org/t/2687/1)/[.IS](http://archive.is/1oLoN);
[Page 2 on
The forum has been updated. New users are now moderated. It's also much faster
now.
I've seen flagging working well for other forums. When a comment is flagged as
spam by N users a moderator will be able to remove the comment and block the
account that posted it. If regular users abuse the spam flag the moderator can
block their account instead. N=1 is probably enough to start
I think moderator approval of first posts by users is the best solution so far.
Not too much work for moderators, and no change for anybody who is already on
the board, except no new spam anymore. Flagging is not the best idea. I think
currently it means that all active users have to flag
I'm not saying that having a GitHub account should be a _requirement_ for
joining, but it could be a part of the "business logic" for new account
validation. It's very easy to implement. If you're an established Nim
developer, the forum rolls out a red carpet. If you're not, your first X posts
The admins have to set some rules about posting.
I agree that requiring a GitHub account will do more harm than good.
It may be worth hooking in to the StopForumSpam API which would help block bots
(but not much help for humans). Realistically, human spam is very difficult to
combat without impacting the user experience for legitimate users.
Having a GitHub account should not be required to participate in the community
and I think it's harmful to make people with few original Nim code second-class
citizens.
Another idea is GitHub integration. Make each new user authenticate with
GitHub, scan his/her repos for original Nim code, assign reputation rank based
on star count. 8)
There are two solutions:
* Ever new user's first post needs to be approved by a moderator.
* We introduce a flagging mechanism, so that forum users can flag spam and
once enough people flag it the post becomes invisible.
Of course, we can do both too. I think this is how HN works and it's
I would prefer what Araq suggested. Spammers are almost always new accounts,
and that information should be used to not make the life of people harder who
contribute. I don't know what is currently done, but I would suggest when
someones first post is Spam, the accounts should be banned. I
Making the life of legitimate users difficult is not a good way to fight spam.
Last time investigations showed that spammers might be real human beings. The
better solution is manual approval of new members, I think.
That's actually a good idea, and everyone could give it a shot
[https://github.com/nim-lang/nimforum/pulls](https://github.com/nim-lang/nimforum/pulls)
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