It has been our policy to avoid creating barriers to entry into the Rubin Forum Community, so we have always allowed new users to post to the Forum immediately upon creating an account. However, in response to an increase in bot-created spam postings, we are making some minor changes to the policies…

Hi, I am involved with the UK RSP and today we had an outage. I wanted to use the forum to alert users, but this was flagged for moderation, which took several hours (presumably due to the time zone difference). I assume this is because I have a low trust level? Thus far I’ve made 9 posts and crea…

@davemckay thanks for raising this. As an admin, I can see that the automatic flagging, and the requirement for moderator approval, for your topic “UK IDAC on-going network issues” was due to a low trust level, yes. Your account was still at trust level 1, though I can see you’ve made >10 posts a…

Thanks very much, I think that would be useful, although I’m aware there’s been a spam issue! Thanks, Dave

The minimum trust level for user posts to bypass moderation has been lowered from 2 to 1. We’ll see how that goes but hopefully it can stay there, and issues like this can be avoided in the future.

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