Suggestions/Feedback/Critique

[linkspam_mod]

Because we recognize that we may fall short when dealing with complex issues, we welcome privilege checks, suggestions and critiques from our readers. If you have an issue you would like to raise with the Linkspam moderation team, you can:

1. Comment on any post. (Comments will be screened.)

2. PM one or more of the moderators: aedh, hl, inkstone, ithiliana, kaz, melannen, naraht, unusualmusic

NOTE: Any message sent to individual mods will be circulated to the entire group for discussion.

3. Contact the Linkspam account:

Email: linkspam_mods@yahoo.com
PM: linkspam_mod

4. Comment on this post: comments are screened and your comment will not be made public unless you specifically request it.

Comments

[From: linkspam_mod]

Apologies for the delay. I've just replied to your other comment. Please let me know if you would like this comment unscreened as well.

[From: sqbr]

(Cool with this being unscreened)

Afaict my posts are specifically not being linked in roundups even when relevant, and are given a "not_linked" tag. Is this because I asked for one of my posts to not be linked on metafandom? I really did just mean that post in particular, and wasn't aware it was *possible* to ask to not be on linkspam.

I actually would like the option to take take posts off of the linkspam radar from time to time, but I don't want to NEVER be linked. Also I've been following the larger meta discussions about the way linkspam works and it would be helpful to understand exactly how you guys decide what to link and not, since afaict there's a lot of other people who'd like to be able to opt out of being linked and have been unable to.

Apologies if I have somehow gotten the entirely wrong end of the stick.

[From: linkspam_mod]

Thanks for commenting. A "not_linked" tag on Delicious doesn't mean that a post will never be linked; it's just a marker that we use to let our compilers know whether a particular post has been added to a linkspam yet or not. Not everything that ends up in our Delicious account does get linked eventually (we keep an eye on some discussions to see whether they pass a critical threshold or not) but most things do.

If there is a delay in linking a particular post that has already been added to Delicious, it can mean that we're trying to decide how to categorize it, what discussion it's part of, whether to warn for it, or whether the discussion is big enough. Or in some cases it can just mean that our compilers are busy. We try to run an efficient operation but things sometimes fall through the cracks!

(If I'm correct in guessing which post you're referring to, I believe that we've got it slated to be part of an upcoming general "-isms" linkspam.)

Right now we don't have a mechanism for letting people opt out of links, although we encourage people to lock their posts if they don't want to be part of the public discussion.

On the contrary, if you have posts that we haven't yet picked up on Delicious, do let us know! We can't be everywhere, though we try.

Hope that answered your concerns.

[From: sqbr]

Ahhhhhhhhhhh. So I did have the totally wrong end of the stick. Rightio, all questions answered :)