moderation

What do I need to be cautious of when creating a user-content driven site?

I'm slowly but surely working on a site using ASP.NET MVC which will contain a bunch of user-generated content, such as submitted links, comments, markers on a map etc. I need to know what stuff I need to be mindful of when coding. Examples being scrubbing User inputs for HTML strings like the script tag, and blocking against SQL injec...

How can I moderate trolls algorithmically?

I'm writing a forum application but one of the things I'm concerned about is trolls - users who disrupt dialog with abusive speech or off-topic content. This goes beyond spam prevention because it includes people who are actually participating in a discussion but who either refuse or are unable to follow proper standards of behavior. Wi...

liferay workflow to preview / review blog comments

Hi There, is there a some out of the box workflow, which helps you to review blog comments in liferay. Eg. Post blog entry -> User comments blog entry -> Mail goes to moderator about/with new entry -> User write s****S ;-) -> moderator denies to publish entry or / and is there a way to check it against stopwords at submit. E.G. check f...

moderated posts - versioned table

Hi all, I'm creating CMS where created and updated posts have to be moderated. Ie. user Bill updates post - new content is stored somewhere in database. Unless cms-admin accepts Bill's post visitors should see post content before Bill's update. When cms-admin accepts new post content visitors see fresh version. I think about using acts...

Approve submitted data

I notices more spam in my submitted data. How can I make a moderate stAge? For ex, user submits dAta to be entered mysql then I can approve before it is enetered into db where it would be automatically published. 9/11/2009: So I will test the Y/N method and then get back to u guys but I suspct I will have a problem with moderating (te...

Open soruce Karma system

I'm looking for an open source (stand alone) Karma system that I could include in our project (best if in Php or Java). I haven't looked into slashcode yet but it seems that the karma system is not separable from the rest. Thanks. Marco ...

Looking for ways to prevent users from contributing tasteless content.

Hello. For my upcoming social network site, I would like to stop participants from contributing tasteless content (text, pictures, videos, audio). I am devising a mechanism of moderation but I believe soon the amount of content being contributed will outgrow my teams capacity to proof-read. I am looking for ways to automatically handle t...

TWiki: Restricting users scope of editing the pages.

I am making a twiki website and I am stuck with a problem. The users have access to write the files. So, I want to include Report Abuse option so that in case of vandalism of someone the thing can be corrected as soon as possible. Also, I am facing one more problem that someone told me that while editing the code the person can change th...

Monitoring File Changes in C#

Hi there, I'm using C# for a mini project of mine, I am trying to monitor files that are changed, Deleted, And/or created. And export that to a file. But I am not quite sure how to monitor files. Any ideas? ...

How to definitively ban a user from my website ... or almost ?

On my website I would like to be able to ban some users for good, I could filter IP address, but the user can use another IP address, or more dangerous with some providers like AOL : you can have a user using a floating IP address, so ban an IP could lead to ban wrong users. I could filter email address, but obviously, one can open ano...

Where can I find a list of obscenities for filtering purposes?

We need to filter content for 'naughty' words. Where can I find such a list to be integrated into an application? Please note that yes, this is a genuine question - it's not here purely for amusement. ...

Need a guestbook script with a tool for moderation.

I need to create a guestbook-like page on my website. However, the server ( main site ) runs Apache and PERL but not PHP - and the sysadmins will not change this. However, I have other servers which run PHP which could be used. The form and the guestbook page just need to be on the main site server. The engine could live on one of th...

Implementing a moderated internal mailing list with Lotus Domino

Hi In Lotus Notes, I use Groups to implement "internal" mailing lists ("internal" because only users with Lotus Notes accounts can be member of the groups). Is there an easy way to moderate emails sent to this group? Let's say I have a group (everyone-in-the-office) and Alice sends an email to everyone-in-the-office. I would like mode...

How to specify users/emails that get notified about new comments in Django?

Possible Duplicate: Django notification on comment submission How can I specify which users get notified about new comments using Django's comment and moderation framework? In the documentation it says that the site staff will get an email notification, but when I'm posting a new comment only the very first user (the one that ...