I tend to agree Slimline, its a really difficult one. Though Kermit makes a good point about what Lemming would want to be happening to the place.slimline wrote:Hi all,
Morally I cannot hack the forum, it belongs to Lemming. I only supply the web space and the bandwidth for Lem to use.
Pete (slimline)
I would say there are ways to get around these concerns, even though right now they are obviously less important than the spam problem.Kermit wrote: And just to clarify, I am talking the ability to delete anything here not individual topic mods coz they are not important, but being able to delete anything is too much control and would need careful thinking over.
The trick would be for Lemming (hope he is ok too) to create a spam usergroup which has no permission to post, and a hidden section only visible to moderators & above. Then give moderators the power to move suspected spammers into the spam group, and their posts / threads into the hidden forum. Lemming could then have oversight as the only person actually able to ban those accounts from the spam group as and when he has time to go through them, and remove their posts completely (or restore them if anything was legitimate).
Personally I think telling mods not to ban anyone or remove anything that isn't obvious spam should be enough, but if there is a historical concern on the forum about moderators and what that would do to the board then imo the above suggestion would solve it (and should be pretty easy to implement).
it is really bad right now but it will get sorted when lemming gets back so I will have to suck it up till then. I am just hoping that lemming is fine and well and has thought sod it I need a Cannabis Cup jolly and is stoned in the corner of a quiet coffeeshop with a fake beard and glasses 
