1. Moderating Content in Drupal Ashok Modi August 6, 2010

3. Work for California Institute of the Arts

4. Worked for zinc Roe Design; create web sites (and games) aimed at youth.

5. Working with Drupal since 2006 (Drupal 4.6.x)

6. Help with patches and upgrades of contrib modules on Drupal.org

7. Abuse

8. Data

9. Decisions

10. Favorites

11. Flag Content

12. Fivestar

13. Nice Menus

14. Simplenews

15. Userpoints

16. Userpoints Badges

17. More info and details at http://drupal.org/user/60422

19. Likely haven’t seen some solutions that are out there.

20. How about a BOF?

21. Let’s share ideas!

22. Everyone will benefit.

23. Say your question!

24. Everyone should come out a winner

26. Anonymous

27. Deal with spam!

28. Registered (registration and content creation open to everyone)

29. Deal with spam.

30. Deal with ‘bad’ content.

31. Cyber Bullying

32. Trolling

33. Site gangs

34. Dealt with the above when working on the Zimmer Twins (http://www.zimmertwins.com)

35. Content from ‘controlled’ users (closed registration with fixed and/or fixed content creation team)

36. People/staff you know/work with.

37. Inaccurate Content

38. Stale Information

39. Poorly written

40. and the list goes on!

42. Posted by ‘users’ that can register via weakly protected registration forms.

43. What does Drupal offer out of the box?

44. Not all that much :/

45. Spam bots get smarter and smarter (relatively easy to defeat

46. Un-publish anonymous content until a content editor can look at the content and then mark it for submission.

47. May be difficult if dealing with a site is a very large amount of anonymous content.

48. Require submitting comments to be previewed (takes care of a large chunk of spam by splitting a form into multiple pages)

50. Provide users with a question they must respond to try and validate them as a human being.

51. Many plug-ins available from project page

52. ReCaptcha (http://drupal.org/project/recaptcha)

53. Captcha Pack (http://drupal.org/project/captcha_pack)

54. Captcha Riddler(http://drupal.org/project/riddler)

55. Spam (http://drupal.org/project/spam)

56. Can block spammer urls and IP addresses, detect repeat postings, check for bad content via custom filters.

58. Antispam (http://drupal.org/project/antispam)

59. Validate content against services offered by Akismet, Defensio, or TypePad Antispam where content sent to their servers

60. Comes with a antispam helper module which adds a user role which would allow a user to continue

61. No Supplemental captchas

62. More information at http://www.pixture.com/drupal/node/76

63. Mollom

64. Similar to antispam but only works with Mollom servers.

66. Create views of various types of content (whatever views supports)

67. Provides operations for content (similar to the content list edit page, but much more useful since it uses views).

68. Can update multiple content at once.

69. Used on Drupal.org

71. Can post spam via spam bots.

72. Can also spam by hand (children in particular can be VERY persistent)

73. Worry about quality of content (inappropriate content can be a huge concern).

74. Moderating content was a large issue when working on the Zimmer Twins (at the time, over 700k user generated movie clips and over 660k comments – both are over 1M now)

75. Mass spam (by hand) to gain interest in watching their movie clip

76. Trolling other users

78. Both nodes or comments.

79. Troublesome as you have to click on content to see if there are any issues and work from there.

81. Block out IP and IP Ranges (has ability to import multiple block lists)

82. Advanced user searching

83. Can be useful in targeting user management

84. Possible solution: use help of users to help with moderating content on site.

85. Flag Content (http://drupal.org/project/flag_content)

86. Ability to flag users, comments, and content

87. User flags can notify an admin who can take a closer look at the content for removal

88. Integration with views to see different parts of content issues.

89. Not been updated in a while…

91. Written by me

92. Watchlist module

93. Contains list of watchlist and banned regular expressions which automatically flag content if the title, body, content contains pattern.

94. Has moderation section to see content, ability to allow/hide/remove content, give users warnings, ban user.

95. Also has supervisory role to assign content to first level set of moderators.

96. Cannot flag users (though number of warnings, flags user content has received is shown on moderation screen)

97. UI can be daunting.

98. No views support (sorry guys ; its actually broken against views)

100. Looking like future to moderation problem.

101. Ability to flag content of *any* type

102. Integration with many different projects (views, rules, workflow)

103. Flag Abuse Module (http://drupal.org/project/flag_abuse)

104. Users must provide reasons.

105. Predefined views

106. Integrate with Views Bulk Operations (http://drupal.org/project/vbo) to perform mass operations.

108. Content Moderation (http://drupal.org/project/content_moderation)

109. New ways to ‘manage’ content (can be used in ways of moderation)

110. Really uses workflow module to power moderation of content.

112. Integrate mollom API to ensure bots are not flagging content.

113. Integrate mollom API to get quality/profanity rating on content and decide if it should be flagged, not allowed, or allowed.

114. Nothing regarding this in contrib quite yet 

116. Generally do not have to worry about inappropriate content.

117. May be lower volume of content to check.

118. Different set of problems

119. Inaccurate content.

120. Incorrect links.

121. Expired content.

123. Know who the last content editor was if someone edits content with incorrect information.

124. Check differences between revisions (use the diff module (http://drupal.org/project/diff) to see difference side-by-side).

125. Using revisioning or content moderation might be very useful for publishing content in a proper manner.

126. Use Link Checker? (http://drupal.org/project/linkchecker)

128. Set various states for content to enter

129. Show end user only content that are in certain states.

130. Integrates with views (try to use views bulk operations to manage content en masse).

131. Integrates with flag via rules module or via workflow_flag module.

133. Notify a set of site content managers when content is created/updated by other content editors.

134. Check to make sure the content is correctly formatted.

136. Ideas?

137. Funny stories?

138. Sharing Time!Thank you 