[Novalug] [OT] 'Comment moderators' -- Mailing list or web-based?

[Paul D. Bain]

John Warren wrote:

> Several of the projects I'm working on will be seeing an esitmated total 
> throughput of 500,000+ comments a day after some sophisticated spam 
> filtering.  And while technically our software/hardware can easily 
> handle the load, we don't have the manpower for a final human filtering 
> step.  But I don't have any experience with and haven't found any 
> reliable business reviews of some of the existing 3rd party providers.
> 
> I was wondering if anyone on the list has had any experience with some 
> of the these parties?
> 
> http://icucmoderation.com/
> http://www.emoderation.com/services/moderation
> http://www.escalatemoderation.com/homepage
> http://www.socialmod.com/

	First, are you moderating a mailing list or a web-based community? If 
the latter, then you probably ought to have investigated Slash, the 
software that runs Slashdot.org. See www.Slashcode.org. Slashdot 
succeeded for a damned good reason: the participants _themselves_ were 
the moderators. I am amazed that so few people understand this very 
simple principle.

	Furthermore, you might benefit from using a "captcha." See this:

	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha

	If the former, then there are probably moderation "plug-ins" for the 
most popular mailing list servers, e.g., mailman, ezmlm, etc., such as 
mailing list managers, e.g.:

	www.PHPlist.com


Sincerely,
Paul Bain, Esq.

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