RE: The future of the Yahoo Blender Group?

What do you need some one to filter the spamers 
out or approve new messages on a daily or bi-daily basis?


At 07:18 PM 5/28/2008, you wrote:

>LOL, Justin, you've been great!  I haven't done 
>practically anything in forever!  But I know you 
>are also very busy with life.  The problem is 
>that there are now over 1000 members, and I 
>don't know how many of those are "real"??
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>What we used to do was wait until someone 
>posted, and if the post was relevant, remove all 
>the security from their account (mostly take off 
>post moderation) and sometimes there were grey 
>areas…. So we had to decide what to do (often, 
>keep moderating them until they showed 
>themselves to be truly interested in the subject.
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>I thought it might be healthiest for the group 
>to have it dumped and started over again, LOL… 
>but maybe that’s not needed.  Maybe what it 
>needs is a few more people to help moderate 
>it??  Or take it over?  I’m not the right person 
>anymore as I haven’t had time for Blender in 
>YEARS!  I became pregnant with my seven year old 
>daughter while goofing around on 
>Blender!   …………….. Um wait…. No no no, that didn’t come out right, LOL  ;P
>
>Anyway, it is nice to have a friendly place to 
>go to ask questions when you’re feeling insecure 
>about your work, and problems… so if anyone 
>wants to volunteer?????  Anyone??  LOL, as 
>Moderator or??  We would all appreciate it.  I 
>think there have been questions that haven’t 
>been approved in a timely manner and people got 
>frustrated and moved on instead of getting help 
>here.  That’s pretty sad L  I wish it weren’t 
>so, but I’m sure it’s happened a lot :P.  Well, thanks for your thoughts!
>Ingie
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>To: Blender-hHKSG33Tihig7M29m/[email protected]: 
>tzuqris-/[email protected]: Wed, 28 May 2008 03:03:59 
>-0500Subject: Re: [Blender] The future of the Yahoo Blender Group?
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>I've been trying my best to keep up with the new 
>posts, but I've been so busy with work and had a 
>recent move. I have to agree with the spammer 
>problem, but this will definitely happen with 
>any large newsgroup or forum. It's been a while 
>since I used that good ol' ban button. We've 
>seen somewhat of an increase in posts over the 
>last six months as well. Though.. I don't know. 
>I say we leave it up to the members... ? Also.. 
>..age limit? Don't trust anyone under 45? I'm 
>turning 20 in just over a month...and if I 
>recall the blue crown next to my name indicates 
>I'm part owner? At any rate I've been here for 
>maybe 4 or 5 years... I model on and off... hate 
>to see the place go... I've got it... no more 11 
>hour shifts! I'll stay here and blend all day!~Justin
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