How to moderate users?
Hello, my project is about cars. I don't have many free time and knoledge, but I'm in no hurry to. I participate in many forums about cars, mainly in french, and I know that people usually behave bad in these forums.
I tested askbot in my computer but there's one thing I can't find is how to moderate users, like baning and and give or take them points.
What are my options?
PS: If there's no moderation functions I can pay someone to do it (but not that much). Do you recomend someone, or is one of the askbot developers available to do that? Tanks
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Hi Jeremy, there is admin interface at url /admin where you can access, modify user profile data, and inactivate accounts. That interface is however may be a bit too powerful and anyone using it should be careful. Extended settings interface (with most things that are in the settings_local.py are coming soon after I merge in the experimental branch).
edit: to make the first user into admin you'll need to run a command
python manage.py add_admin <user_id>
where <user_id> is the numeric id of that user. If command is not available you will need to upgrade the code or copy files forum/management/commands/add_admin.py and forum/management/commands/remove_admin.py. I am working on an easier upgrade method now.
I have not tested it myself, but I suspect that if you delete an account through admin interface you will also automatically delete all user's contributions - try it out and see what happens. There is definitely room for better user moderation tools.
If you - and anyone else:)! - might be willing to sponsor this project in some form I will indeed try to find a developer to help out. Thanks for mentioning that.
Btw, if you are planning to run a forum in French, somebody first needs to make a translation. It will take about a week if you work without a hurry and two days if you only take breaks for food :). I've made a translation from Chinese in three days last year.
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Asked: 2010-06-13 14:47:05 -0500
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Last updated: Jun 23 '10
