Wordpress seems like a very apt comparison, since LessWrong is also being conceptualized as a bunch of individual blogs with varying moderation policies.
… which once again points to the critical necessity of being able to tell when (and how often, etc.) someone is using such a power; hence the need for a moderation log.
Does Wordpress have such a system?
(To be clear, I support the idea of a moderation log. I’m just curious whether it’s actually as necessary as you claim.)
No, at least, not in an automated way without plugins, and not that I can recall seeing on any Wordpress blog I’ve visited. And I don’t think I’d want one for my own Wordpress blog; comments there fall very neatly into two categories, “legitimate comments that I want to keep” and “spam by automated web crawlers that I want to obliterate without a trace”. I wouldn’t want a public moderation log if that log was just going to be a list of spam links.
Wordpress seems like a very apt comparison, since LessWrong is also being conceptualized as a bunch of individual blogs with varying moderation policies.
Does Wordpress have such a system?
(To be clear, I support the idea of a moderation log. I’m just curious whether it’s actually as necessary as you claim.)
No, at least, not in an automated way without plugins, and not that I can recall seeing on any Wordpress blog I’ve visited. And I don’t think I’d want one for my own Wordpress blog; comments there fall very neatly into two categories, “legitimate comments that I want to keep” and “spam by automated web crawlers that I want to obliterate without a trace”. I wouldn’t want a public moderation log if that log was just going to be a list of spam links.