On 2009-05-08, Ian Smith wrote:

If you must have moderation, have:

I think there's a good case for it.


I would suggest a retrospective moderation type process as used by
uk.religion.christian - a new poster goes through step 2, after which
the system automatically approves all subsequent posts. If someone
violates step 1, they are moved off the valid list and onto a manual
list. Any post by someone on the manual list goes to a human
moderator before approval.

Admittedly, this lets one bad post through per nym, but it greatly
cuts down the workload on moderators, and eliminates
moderator-induced delay. Nym-shifters need to work through step 2
every time they shift.

AIUI (in uk.religion.christian) the first few posts from a new nym get
manually moderated, and a nym that passes enough times qualifies for
automatic approval (until it gets dinged for abuse). As you say, this
eliminates nym-shifting, and makes it difficult for known trolls to
get through.