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

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

I've learned a bit more since I first tried
this.

Item one. Here's the delete technique.

In the "comments" list (of new comments), I see the following
columns: Subject Author Status Time Operations. Under Operations are both
Edit and Delete.

8a1. Select an arbitrary comment, one that has a suspiciously brief title
or a blocked user name.

8b1. Click on Delete in that row. A preview of the comment will be
displayed with a button that requests confirmation that you wish to
delete the comment.

8c1. Scroll down through the preview till you hit the incriminating info.
Scroll back up and click on Delete to confirm the deletion.

The only disadvantage of this procedure is that the evidence against the
user is deleted.

Item two. Here's another technique.

8b2. Click on Edit in that row. A preview of the comment will be
displayed with the opportunity to mark it as Not Published.

8c2. Click on Submit.

This preserves the evidence, I think, although the comment seems to
disappear from the list of New Comments, and maybe even from the Track
tab of the user's profile.

Bruce

At 07:45 PM 2/25/2007, Michael Priestley wrote:

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

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Michael Priestley/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA, "Carol Geyer" <carol.geyer@oasis-open.org>

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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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