Re: [dita-fa-edboard] How do we delete posts/comments?

[Bruce Esrig <esrig-ia@esrig.com>]

This is already under control for this one user,
but I'll keep a log of what I'm doing. Also, I've got a suggestion
(below) for how to moderate so that the user needs to get approval before
posting for the first time.

1. At
http://dita.xml.org,
in the right hand column, find "users".
2. Click on the Search tab and enter the user name.
3. In the search results, click on the user name.
4. Click on the Edit tab.
5. On the resulting page, select "Blocked" (it's already
selected) and click Submit.

For this particular user ...

6. In the right hand column, find "comments".
7. Click on the author column to sort by author.
8. Visit comments one by one to check them, then delete them one by
one.

For comment administration ...

In the right hand column, find "access control".
On the resulting page, under "comment module", I turned on
"administer moderation" for "admin" and
"editor". Don't know how much control that will give
yet.

Looking at the user roles, perhaps we could define a new role
"trusted user". The "authenticated user" cannot post
comments. But an authenticated user can contact an editorial board member
and get authorized as a trusted user, who can then post
comments.

Sound good?

Best wishes,

Bruce

At 12:53 PM 2/25/2007, Michael Priestley wrote:

> Every
> comment posted by user axyeno is spam - been getting a lot past us, by
> giving the comments titles and initial paragraph title pasted from the
> article being replied to. 
>
> http://dita.xml.org/user/1632/track
>
> I'm sure there's a way to delete
> comments/posts, but can't find it - figuring this might be useful info
> for others as well. 
>
> Finally, if there's any way to go
> to a semi-moderated style like the dita-users mailing list (the first
> post from every user has to be manually approved) it might be an
> appropriate solution. 
>
> Michael Priestley
> IBM DITA Architect and Classification Schema PDT Lead
> mpriestl@ca.ibm.com
> http://dita.xml.org/blog/25