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

[Michael Priestley <mpriestl@ca.ibm.com>]

Re:
8. Visit comments one by one to check them, then delete
them one by one.

How?

Michael Priestley
IBM DITA Architect and Classification Schema PDT Lead
mpriestl@ca.ibm.com
http://dita.xml.org/blog/25

Bruce Esrig <esrig-ia@esrig.com>

02/25/2007 06:10 PM

To	Michael Priestley/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA, "Carol Geyer" <carol.geyer@oasis-open.org>
cc	dita-fa-edboard@lists.xml.org
Subject	Re: [dita-fa-edboard] How do we delete posts/comments?

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

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