benltrain wrote:While I don't know how, we should try to make sure first time users aren't just going to be trolls. Most of them only have one post, for obvious reasons, but isn't there a way that's easier than deleting their accounts once they've posted crap? Give more members (or maybe all the mods) the power to delete spam in all forums?
A couple of notes on this topic-In addition to moderating a couple of forums here, I also co-moderate the Washington Nationals forum at a popular baseball website.
Many of these "spambots" that have shown up here at
Railroad.net in the last two weeks have also appeared at the baseball website with the same username. Generally they appear to originate from foreign countries.
I do not know if the software here would allow for each moderator to have "supermoderator" privleges that would permit a mod to go to a forum where they aren't a moderator and remove offending posts, nor do I know how Mike or Otto would feel about giving moderators the autonomy to venture outside their assigned areas of responsibility.
Art Audley, AA3RT
Moderator: Railroad Radio & Communications, Railroads in Books, Magazines, Music, TV and other Media, General Discussion: Fallen Trolley & Interurban Lines, General Discussion: Shortline, Industrial & Military Railroads,