Comments on: Guidelines for Blocking URLs, Links and Sites From Your Community http://www.managingcommunities.com/2010/01/09/guidelines-for-blocking-urls-links-and-sites-from-your-community/ Community Manager Blog: Battle Tested Community Management Solutions Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:45:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Censor Block and the Most Efficient Use of Your Forums’ Word Censor Feature » ManagingCommunities.com http://www.managingcommunities.com/2010/01/09/guidelines-for-blocking-urls-links-and-sites-from-your-community/comment-page-1/#comment-3982 Censor Block and the Most Efficient Use of Your Forums’ Word Censor Feature » ManagingCommunities.com Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:15:50 +0000 http://www.managingcommunities.com/?p=818#comment-3982 [...] features a word censor. This is a valuable feature that allows you to block certain words, terms, URLs/links and other text content from being posted on your community. The most common ability that you are [...] [...] features a word censor. This is a valuable feature that allows you to block certain words, terms, URLs/links and other text content from being posted on your community. The most common ability that you are [...]

]]> By: Patrick http://www.managingcommunities.com/2010/01/09/guidelines-for-blocking-urls-links-and-sites-from-your-community/comment-page-1/#comment-3191 Patrick Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:09:49 +0000 http://www.managingcommunities.com/?p=818#comment-3191 Thanks for the comment, Sue. I'm glad that you liked the article. This article is focused on when to decide to disallow your members from linking to a particular site ever again (or, at least, indefinitely). Spam is one application, but perhaps not the primary one. I appreciate you sharing that. It's definitely a tool to keep in mind for dealing with spammers. Thanks, Patrick Thanks for the comment, Sue. I’m glad that you liked the article. This article is focused on when to decide to disallow your members from linking to a particular site ever again (or, at least, indefinitely). Spam is one application, but perhaps not the primary one.

I appreciate you sharing that. It’s definitely a tool to keep in mind for dealing with spammers.

Thanks,

Patrick

]]> By: Sue http://www.managingcommunities.com/2010/01/09/guidelines-for-blocking-urls-links-and-sites-from-your-community/comment-page-1/#comment-3189 Sue Sun, 10 Jan 2010 13:58:23 +0000 http://www.managingcommunities.com/?p=818#comment-3189 Great tips Patrick. May I also suggest another? If any new members to our site post any links at all (within their first 3 posts) they are automatically sent to a moderation queue and do not go live. Myself and the moderators check the queue continually throughout the day. I've found we catch 99% of spammers this way. It's greatly reduced the amount of spam on our site. It's not infallible, but a great tool to add to our "anti-spam" toolkit. Great tips Patrick. May I also suggest another? If any new members to our site post any links at all (within their first 3 posts) they are automatically sent to a moderation queue and do not go live. Myself and the moderators check the queue continually throughout the day. I’ve found we catch 99% of spammers this way. It’s greatly reduced the amount of spam on our site. It’s not infallible, but a great tool to add to our “anti-spam” toolkit.

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