Moderation - adam-iris/my-docs GitHub Wiki

Notifications

When a message goes into moderation, notifications are sent to the owners of all the topics it's sent to.

As topic owner, your authorization is requested for the following message.

You can approve or deny this request at:
http://ds.iris.edu/message-center/topic/jobs/moderate/

You can also review all your requests (across all the topics you own) at:
http://ds.iris.edu/message-center/user_moderate/

From: Julien Chaput <[email protected]>
Subject: PhD position in volcano seismology
Topic(s): Job Announcements

[... message body ...]

Moderation Actions

  • Accepted : send the message out
  • Held : keep the message in the moderation queue
  • Rejected : reject the message and notify the sender
  • Deleted : delete the message with no notification

Rejected is for honest attempts to post a message.
Deleted is for spam, inadvertent reply-alls, automated junk, etc. that doesn't merit a response.

Moderation Pages

The notification email gives 2 links for doing moderation:

http://ds.iris.edu/message-center/topic/jobs/moderate/ : View all the items pending moderation in this topic

http://ds.iris.edu/message-center/user_moderate/ : View items pending moderation across all topics you own

There's also another one, available only to system-level admins:

http://ds.iris.edu/message-center/admin_moderate/ : Full moderation of everything

Common cases

  • Posting to the wrong list
    • ex: SSA announcement posted to iris-announcements
  • Spam
  • Auto-replies
  • Replies intended just for the sender
    • ex: "Hi Tim, this sounds great!"
    • Replies go to the sender anyway, so these should be deleted

Job Postings

Job postings have some particular requirements:

  • The message should be plain text, and contain at least the basic facts of the job
    • Links to more details are fine, but that shouldn't be the only content
  • It should be a paying job (not for internships!)
  • It should be addressed to the list (no preamble, ie. "Can you post this on your site?")

Examples

Typical view of the admin queue:

This job has an attached PDF, we need text:

The "other" lists are the hardest because it's a process of elimination, I approved this one: