Moderator approves posts

[#1]

Now, this is really stupid.

I know its due to the fact that there has been a lot of spam post with commercials and football games.

But lets face a fact:

When a dicussion is being posted:

Like this post:

http://community.qlik.com/message/395759?et=watches.email.thread#395759

I go to the post, see that nobody has answered the questions - I post my solution because i wanna help the guy.

Waiting

Waiting

Waiting

Waiting

APPROVED - Along with 20 other posts with the correct answer, meaning that i get spammed 20 times in my mailbox + there is 20 correct answers because nobody has seen that other has posted the correct answer.

Hope there will be a fix to this:

Btw. sorry if this is the wrong place to post this, but its really annoying!!

Thats all.

[Anonymous]

Thanks gentlemen for all of your good suggestions and feedback. I think we are almost there with the spam plugin and hoping we are through those issues. I like some of the ideas with super users being omitted from moderation and will look into that.

Just a note that we HATE putting moderation in place for all forums. Its very disruptive and we avoid it at all costs and have only put it in place during off hours when we have been hit by spammers and unable to keep the posts from going live.

For those of you who have flagged spam posts- thank you! This has always been one of the fastest ways to alert the team to inappropriate postings.

[#3]

I really agree.

[ift_isabelle]

Is spam 3 years later still a problem?

The moderating thing is getting frustrating!

Or are their any rules /levels you need to achieve before your post won't be moderated anymore?

[Anonymous]

Hi Isabelle,

Thanks for your feedback. Unfortunately, we do still get spam that we catch through the moderation queue. But in addition to spam, we use the moderation process to keep the community organized by making sure that members are posting their questions in the right places and using the correct content types, directing members who post in languages other than English to our language groups, preventing duplicate posts, and more.

You are correct that after a certain amount of participation in the community, your posts will generally not be moderated anymore. There will still be certain criteria that may trigger moderation, for example, posts containing links or attachments. I recommend you try to complete some of the missions found in Your Profile - Reputation section in order to participate in the community in different ways and get more familiar with different features, which will help you advance faster.

Let me know if there is anything else I can help you with.

Best regards,

Qlik Community Team