Unmoderated posts on your site?

Do any of you that have blogs or social networking like ning
on your Web sites allow unmoderated posts by your users? We
are a public library system and I am inclined to recommend
allowing unmoderated posts as I may not be able to find the
staff to help moderate fast enough for the content to stay
fresh. I tend to believe that the mean people will be
shouted down by the majority of users. Is this a crazy idea?
Am I being naive in thinking people will be nice?

Your experience and thoughts on this will be most welcome as
well as links to your sites so I can show others where this
is working. Thank you!

Colleen Brazil
Content Access Manager
Sno-Isle Libraries
www.sno-isle.org



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I would start off with it moderated and see what kind of
traffic you get
first.  You can always change it later.

I remember the unmoderated Wiki that a local newspaper
started a year or
two back.  The first day of operation, the hard-drive was
filled with
pornographic picture that came in from all over the world. 
Before the
end of the day the Wiki was shut down and the project
aborted.

Thomas Edelblute
Public Access Systems Coordinator
Anaheim Public Library

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Do any of you that have blogs or social networking like ning
on your Web
sites allow unmoderated posts by your users? We are a public
library
system and I am inclined to recommend allowing unmoderated
posts as I
may not be able to find the staff to help moderate fast
enough for the
content to stay fresh. I tend to believe that the mean
people will be
shouted down by the majority of users. Is this a crazy idea?
Am I being
naive in thinking people will be nice?

Your experience and thoughts on this will be most welcome as
well as
links to your sites so I can show others where this is
working. Thank
you!

Colleen Brazil
Content Access Manager
Sno-Isle Libraries
www.sno-isle.org



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