I know some other sites have a waiting period before allowing folks to post. I don’t know if it’s possible to do on the new RS site but it would be a good idea. A 24 hour waiting period would reduce the rabble though not eliminate it.

Even a 6-8 hour waiting period would stop the impulse trolls, while still affording reasonably prompt input from someone who legitimately wants to participate for the first time on a hot topic.

It really could put a dent in the troll explosion here at RedState. Then we could evaluate whether to lengthen the waiting period.

I would favor a posting restriction on new accounts. A 48 hour one would likely be the best for stopping trolling, but even 8 hours would cut it down and not be burdensome on people who want to make valuable contributions to our online community.

Today, I’d have paid good money to get my hands on that little Tool for Goodness and Light.

it needs to be moderated, to avoid mental cases like “Mary White”. This person is truly a sick individual.

had a hardtime to recognize what is legit and what is not.

I don’t want to sound so apologetic, but Shoofly, please accept my apology.

I would have waited a day, as a matter of fact I am still not a poster on Little Green Footballs because I keep missing their little “hatchling” openings….I had to email a request for Lucianne because I kept missing their opening and they allowed me to join….. I keep hoping I catch LGF but I still read them……it can be done and it should be done….the trope spread around against this VP candidate is proof of the necessity of it.

Do the Directors really want the sickness that infected the site this weekend being here when VIP’s visit? I think not.

Someone grant me blam privileges and I’ll use them with extreme prejudice.

nt

I totally BS. They have to stick their leftist noses into everything. I want a site where we conservatives can blog each other without having to deal with these leftists?! It’s bad enough I have to deal with them in my extended family and at work! And, unfortunately, I live in one of the biggest leftist states, NY!

Go McCain and Palin!

Between the trolls and the scores of comments I have posted that have been gulped up by the big bad ISE 550 club, I am about to losing my mind!

Please, please, please shut down registration for a while and get these bugs fixed. We have an election to fight and we can not do it with this bum site.

Between the trolls and the scores of comments I have posted that have been gulped up by the big bad ISE 550 club, I am about to losing my mind!

Please, please, please shut down registration for a while and get these bugs fixed. We have an election to fight and we can not do it with this bum site.

We’re getting hit with very, very high traffic since Friday. Just look at Sitemeter. The combination of the search hits on the Palin diary, the hits from all across the Internet on the Tale of the Tape post, and the two Drudge hits (Fowler and Palin’s SSN) are just flooding us far beyond our capacity to deal with it.

When the site slows down, that also slows down the ability of the moderators to read and police the site. When it takes a half hour to investigate, ban, and cleanup after a single troll, it’s just hard to keep up.

Further, this is the time of the Republican National Convention. We have many writers out there, and that includes Moe Lane. Just like when he was in Hawaii, he’s not around all day like normal when he’s at the convention.

I’ve by default been working to pick up the slack (and enjoying each blam) but again, when each blam takes a half hour, it’s very hard ot keep up.

So please, be patient. After everything’s settled down, and everyone’s back home, we can return things to normal.

Anybody serious has been reading..not reacting

24/7 Registration…3 day wait

VIP’s can get exemptions…giving exemptions is easier than Chasing and Zapping

And if the Capacity will not be increased..

this would be one of only a few options

I’m a relatively new user (member?) on this site (just checked, 2 days, 9 hours), and am finding it to be an outstanding information resource. However, I rapidly reached the conclusion (perhaps unfairly) that the only stuff of any value is on the front page posted by named contributors, and most of the “feedback” posting is a waste of time. I’ve posted a couple of times, but am concerned that most of the “civilian” posters (like me) on this site don’t even remotely share my point of view (which is, frankly, that Sarah Palin can and will carry this ticket to the White House). I don’t have enough experience with this format to recommend a fix, but I’ll keep reading the front page!

If you all pour recommendations on this, it just pushes an Election-related article off the rec list for days. You might want to recommend a good diary hitting Obama instead.

As I recall, there USED to be an “edit button” at the top of the diary entry. But it’s not showing up here. So I can’t make any updates to this.

Until I can update the diary, I’ll just post this item: NightTwister put up a great idea in this diary documenting the “Emergency Hinz Rule™” I think we should follow his sound advice and completely, totally ignore the trolls and quasi-trolls that have descended upon this place in waves.

n/p

I stumbled across this sight and found it to be great for information. I know you are only talking about the people posting mindless attacks so I can only say that if there was a waiting period for me to be able to post I would have waited. This sight, from what Ive seen, has a bunch of people who are interested in the democratic process of the presidential election and I want to be able to pick their brains from time to time.

…although I’ve read this site for couple years now.

The signal to noise ratio has definitely increased over the past week…..but I trust Neil and others to make things right.

Now that Drudge is giving us a breather, it’s back to normal already.

As in, 3 votes from “Full Members” (or some other title denoting 1+ year membership or a certain activity threshold or simply moderators picks of good people) can harpoon a user that is less than 2 weeks registered.

I’m sure Redstate is getting heavy traffic…

I also can assure Redstate that they LOST about 1/2 of the traffic they Could have had…

I’m not sure how good a link on Drudge is…if people can’t reach the page

With speed and capacity…everything else, including zapping trolls, becomes Effortless!!

I’ll Shut up now…