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Blog Entry# 19756
Posted: Jan 31 2010 (13:56)
15 Responses
Last Response: Jul 30 2011 (21:13)
15 Responses
Last Response: Jul 30 2011 (21:13)
A new feature has been introduced to help our admins to moderate the site better.
Sometimes, a discussion or topic starts well, but goes off into a tangent, gets unfocused, and sometimes continues forever into an unending insult/flame war. Admins cannot keep monitoring such a discussion/thread and keep removing unwanted posts at the tail end of that topic, and subsequent responses.
You will now see a new link called "Lock" next to "Add Bookmark". Using this, admins can "lock a blog entry". This will prevent users from continuing that thread. That whole entry...
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Sometimes, a discussion or topic starts well, but goes off into a tangent, gets unfocused, and sometimes continues forever into an unending insult/flame war. Admins cannot keep monitoring such a discussion/thread and keep removing unwanted posts at the tail end of that topic, and subsequent responses.
You will now see a new link called "Lock" next to "Add Bookmark". Using this, admins can "lock a blog entry". This will prevent users from continuing that thread. That whole entry...
more...
4 Public Posts - Sun Jan 31, 2010
1 Public Posts - Mon Feb 01, 2010
@Kapadia : Feb 01 (11:17AM)
Correctly observed. It's a tool to stop runaway discussions into infinity, which might lead to insult wars. Hopefully, it'll serve the needs of all bloggers.
@admins: When needed (purely optional), please reply with a tail piece summarizing and concluding the discussion, before locking it. Thanks.
Correctly observed. It's a tool to stop runaway discussions into infinity, which might lead to insult wars. Hopefully, it'll serve the needs of all bloggers.
@admins: When needed (purely optional), please reply with a tail piece summarizing and concluding the discussion, before locking it. Thanks.
1 Public Posts - Mon Feb 01, 2010
8 Public Posts - Sat Jul 30, 2011