Help with Moderation required - Apply within

**Marx** · 21st-January-2012

I am asking you good folks to show a little support for this site by offering your services in terms of moderation. What I currently need is about 5mins a day or perhaps an hour a week of your time for a mind-numbingly boring task.

The job is simple... to look at trackback URL's coming into AM's various pages and authorize them or dismiss them. If you look around various pages on AM you will see some threads have a list of incoming links (sites that link to that specific page) while other pages don't. They're there - they are just invisible to the standard member until they've been approved by a moderator or admin.

Currently, I'm the only bugger doing them - and after two days and 50 pages, I'm sick of looking at them.

Each page has about 50 (I've not counted, just a guess) links. You will see two links within each entry. 1) Shows you where it originated from and 2) shows you which AM page it relates to.

The job is to simply LOOK at the originating URL and checking it is NOT a spam-type address (e.g. www.spamaholics.com/some-content-we-have-ripped.html). Those that are fairly obvious, dismiss them (decline the linkback) and those that are legitimate need to be approved. Once you've done a page or two (or as many as you can handle in a day) simply leave the rest for another time... There is no massive rush on this, but as it has been left over a year, it really does need to get caught up with.

Anyone willing to help?

**Dylan MacVillain** · 21st-January-2012

I'll give it a try.

**Marx** · 21st-January-2012

Okies... let's chat !

**outdoors** · 21st-January-2012

I would like to help but I don't think I am smart enough for such a task.

sorry

**Duran** · 21st-January-2012

Quote from outdoors

I would like to help but I don't think I am smart enough for such a task.

sorry

lolololll

**Marx** · 21st-January-2012

Obviously, I'd call up whoever and talk them through the process first time or two, and be available if needed for any help.

**Marx** · 27th-January-2012

Still seeking...

**outdoors** · 28th-January-2012

Marx-I don't even know what a trackback URL's is/are.

Wish I could help.

**Marx** · 28th-January-2012

If it's all above your head, then don't worry about it.

The basic thing goes to this effect:

New mod would log into secret admin/mod section of AM.
New mod then receives a page of links.
New mod checks whether they are legit by visiting them (not essential, you can see where links go - if they're known bad sites (e.g. my-spammy-website.com) just select 'delete' option, if it's a worthwhile site to link back to (e.g. avfm, goodmenproject, known-newspapers, etc.) then simply click 'accept'.)
Each page has about 50 (I think) links to check.

It is a piece of cake... sadly, it is mundane and mind-numbingly boring.

**Duran** · 28th-January-2012

How many minutes/hours per day would be required?

EDIT:

Quote from Marx

What I currently need is about 5mins a day or perhaps an hour a week of your time for a mind-numbingly boring task.

Nevermind I'm retarded.

**Celtic Druid** · 4th-February-2012

Just deviately slightly, every member who values what this forum brings, must become a temporary moderator (via report post) whenever someone undertakes actions contrary to what we are about.

**felixblue** · 7th-May-2012

come on chaps.. help marx out here if you can.. everyone who posts here regularly can spare an hour a week surely for the good of the site.. Free beer to anyone who helps out! *