community-moderation

In a system for moderating offensive user content, how do you decide on a threshold for automatic removal?

I'm writing a forum application and want to automatically moderate offensive posts using a flagging system similar to the one on StackOverflow in which users are given the ability to report problematic posts as falling into one of three categories: * Abusive speech * Off topic * Spam If a particular post receives a certain number of f...

is there an open source app that does automatic flagging removal?

you know how craigslist has an aumotic flag removal system - where if a posting is flagged a # of time it just gets removed? is there an open source app i could have installed into drupal? i'm not a programmer, btw, am having site built! thanks ...

How to implement a "flag for moderator attention" feature on a Comment model in a Rails app?

I have a Comment model in my app but am encountering a lot of problematic postings that I have to remove manually. What I want to do is add a "flag for moderator attention" feature so that users of the app have the ability to remove a comment from view without my need to review all content in the app. I'm thinking that after a comment ...

Implementing Community Moderation

i am building a social network platform, as a platform to learn web development. i have some questions on how should community moderation be implemented properly. flagging should it be totally automated? eg. if a post is flagged xx times, it will be closed/deleted? some problems i see is that, if somehow a grp of users decide to wreck...