Moderation

Because we have talked about moderation in class last week i was curious how the Cape Town Travel Guide handles this. So i went looking for different kind of moderation in this community.

In the forum, by forummessages, there is this link"Report Advertising or Inapproriate Posting". Which you can click on by every message that is posted. To relate to the class Niels gave: this is an example of Reactive Moderation in a community. Users will spot something 'bad' quickly and can alert the moderators by clicking on this link. ( I wanted to know what the message would be when you click this link. But i couldn't because i couldnt find an inapprorate message).

When you want to post a question or if you want to reply, there are several messages in the header of the website. "* This Forum is for asking Travel Related Questions Only. All other postings will be removed.". This means that when you go off topic fe your post will be removed. This is an example of Post Moderation. Every post has to be read and checked by the moderator to see if the post is really relative to travel related questions.

The Cape Town Travel Guide community uses a combination of different kind of moderation. Which i think are good! I think they chose the best ways of moderation. In advantage of the users and the moderators themselves.