Last night I attempted to reply to a post in the Mises Institute vs. Cato Institute thread and received a message that my post needed to be approved. I am not a new member but it may have something to do with the fact that I reformatted my computer??? Perhaps I was recognized as a new user? In any case the post has not yet been approved. If there is a reason it has not yet been approved I would appreciate knowing it. It if is just because of my computer being reformatted that is one thing. I hope there is not another reason.
Thanks,
Ryanpatgray
Educational Pamphlet Mises Group
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Can we please call a moritorium on conspiracy theories about unapproved posts? This is nearly always--like 99.99% of the time--a software issue. Tons of spam floats around the web, and there is no way admins can personally deal with it all. We have to rely on spam checks, and these are not perfect. Please be patient with the system. By the way, this is true of the main blog too. Every few days I receive a flaming email from somehow whose post was tagged as spam. This is completely unnecessary.
Jeffrey TuckerEditorial VP, Mises
Rich333: HeroicLife: Juan:Since users need to register before posting, can the filtering done at that level ? If only legitimate users join the forum, then no filtering of individual messages is needed ? No, because spammers also join the forum sometimes. So use a quality captcha, like recaptcha, to block out spambots at registration time, and have a few moderators plus a posting delay (5-30 seconds between each post, depending on how new the poster is to the board, should work) to handle anyone who tries to post spam manually. If some spam gets through and a mod doesn't catch it, anyone who comes across it can use the "report abuse" link for the post to report it. EDIT: Am I alone in finding it ironic that a guilty until proven innocent approach is used here?
HeroicLife: Juan:Since users need to register before posting, can the filtering done at that level ? If only legitimate users join the forum, then no filtering of individual messages is needed ? No, because spammers also join the forum sometimes.
Juan:Since users need to register before posting, can the filtering done at that level ? If only legitimate users join the forum, then no filtering of individual messages is needed ?
No, because spammers also join the forum sometimes.
So use a quality captcha, like recaptcha, to block out spambots at registration time, and have a few moderators plus a posting delay (5-30 seconds between each post, depending on how new the poster is to the board, should work) to handle anyone who tries to post spam manually. If some spam gets through and a mod doesn't catch it, anyone who comes across it can use the "report abuse" link for the post to report it.
EDIT: Am I alone in finding it ironic that a guilty until proven innocent approach is used here?
Bots are increasingly able to solve CAPTCHAs, and it's best to verify valid posts than to risk having the forum littered with v14gr4 4 ch33p posts.
Don't allow leftists to play games with definitions! Some of the libertarian-leaning leftists at this forum will try to redefine "left-wing" back to its original defition (Third Estate, limited government, free-markets, laissez-faire reforms, etc.). Fine! We non-leftists can't stop them from using their own personal definitions; they can use whatever labels they want to describe any concept they want.However, they have the audacity to then use their personal definition of "left-wing" (remember, the original definition, which is no longer valid) to prove that modern leftists are more libertarian than modern rightists! They will say that libertarianism is "inherently leftist" (again, using the original, no longer valid definition), and use that to insist that we should prefer and side with modern leftists over modern rightists.
Question their motives.
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