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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
3 Public Posts - Mon Feb 01, 2010
3 Public Posts - Sat Jul 30, 2011
@moderator**: Re# 19756-0
As can be seen above, the Archive/Lock feature was introduced 1.5 years back to control runaway discussions. At that time, we used to have many more flame wars and abusive, emotion-laden arguments going nowhere. Requests to stop commenting were not honoured. People would keep adding to the discussion, and such comments at the tail-end had to be repetitively deleted. The only alternative was to remove the whole entry. Otherwise, that entry would keep bubbling to the top and someone had to delete the last post.
Archiving/Locking was a way to...
more...
As can be seen above, the Archive/Lock feature was introduced 1.5 years back to control runaway discussions. At that time, we used to have many more flame wars and abusive, emotion-laden arguments going nowhere. Requests to stop commenting were not honoured. People would keep adding to the discussion, and such comments at the tail-end had to be repetitively deleted. The only alternative was to remove the whole entry. Otherwise, that entry would keep bubbling to the top and someone had to delete the last post.
Archiving/Locking was a way to...
more...
4 Public Posts - Sat Jul 30, 2011