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#4 Re: Expiring old articles. Posted by Steve (82.41.xx.xx) on Thu 1 Dec 2005 at 11:32 From memory slashdot has disallowed comments on older articles for at least the past three or four years.... Still I take your point, spam hasn't been a problem here thus far. I've deleted maybe three comments total, and banned a few IPs that seems to have done the job. I'm aware that it is a problem which is liable to occur in the future, so I've got vague plans to allow comment moderation - but that is a hard problem to solve. Slashdot does it mostly correctly, but there is a fair amount of overhead and it still isn't perfect. OSNews.com has recently been flirting with moderation and as far as I can see it is an almost completely broken implementation - where non-troll comments are being moderated down by people who merely disagree with the posters opinion, and there is no comeback at all. I'm interested in the topic generally, but I have no idea just yet how to do it both fairly and in a distributed fashion. On the plus side here spamming doesn't cause anything to come "to the top". The only obvious problem is that users weblogs might get full of bad content - although weblog owners may delete any comments they wish to, I have no idea how often this occurs in practice but I can't say I've seen evidence of it happening yet. Steve
From memory slashdot has disallowed comments on older articles for at least the past three or four years....
Still I take your point, spam hasn't been a problem here thus far. I've deleted maybe three comments total, and banned a few IPs that seems to have done the job.
I'm aware that it is a problem which is liable to occur in the future, so I've got vague plans to allow comment moderation - but that is a hard problem to solve. Slashdot does it mostly correctly, but there is a fair amount of overhead and it still isn't perfect.
OSNews.com has recently been flirting with moderation and as far as I can see it is an almost completely broken implementation - where non-troll comments are being moderated down by people who merely disagree with the posters opinion, and there is no comeback at all.
I'm interested in the topic generally, but I have no idea just yet how to do it both fairly and in a distributed fashion.
On the plus side here spamming doesn't cause anything to come "to the top". The only obvious problem is that users weblogs might get full of bad content - although weblog owners may delete any comments they wish to, I have no idea how often this occurs in practice but I can't say I've seen evidence of it happening yet.
Steve
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