Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

For my $0.02, I think moderating newbies until they post a relevant
message or two would be ideal. It combines the best of both worlds,
offering an open forum for people browsing and for search engine
indexing, while allowing moderation of potentially bad users without the
work of moderating every message.

James

-----Original Message-----
From: drumzilla [mailto:bukama@...] 
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 10:13 PM
To: DTXpress@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [DTXpress] Re: Moderators Assigned/Restricted Membership


Thanks so much, Rolf.  I'm so glad you responded to my e-mails to you 
& made contact with this group again.  The moderators the group has 
now will keep things straight from now on.

Re: Restricted Membership.  It really is no hassle whatsoever for the 
potential member.  All they do is hit the JOIN THIS GROUP button, 
same as always.  A prompt will pop up in the "Pending" area, and as 
soon as a moderator checks it out & thinks it's okay, he just 
approves the request.  BAM!...done.

If you moderate individual messages, that means that everything 
posted must be approved by a moderator.  When traffic's heavy that 
may be quite time consuming.  I like the restricted membership method 
better myself.

You can also, as previously suggested, moderate messages from newbies 
until they've proven themselves to be good citizens, then un-moderate 
them.

One more thing, as I roam around Yahoo groups, any time I see someone 
posting anything inappropriate, such as porn sites, I copy their e- mail
address to my banned list.  That way they can't join EVER & 
don't have to be messed with even once.

So glad you guys are up & running again.  Very pleased I could help.

Zilla



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