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A comment on the idea "Expire Events" in Sprouter:

Having a 'past events' link on the events search results might be a good idea. – Paul Papadimitriou, on November 08, 2009 17:40

Paul Papadimitriou started following the idea "Import/find contacts from Twitter/Gmail/Linkedin etc?" in Sprouter.

Paul Papadimitriou shared an idea in Ning on August 19, 2009 01:48:

Avoid spam members: better registration process and reporting

Since I'm running a few Ning networks, I've seen a rise in the numbers of spam profiles trying to register.

When they do register, they usually mass-comment on user's profile with usual scam (from webcams to get rich schemes).

To avoid this, I've added two steps to the registration process:

1) admin moderation on each registration (time-consuming, but efficient),
2) mandatory questions (usually, spammers would answer "Tell you later", "N/A" or ".").

Those two combined have helped me curb spamming.

However, I think it would be better to have two extra features to help all admins with that battle:

3) a captcha or a similar human-powered registration process ---even though one profile can register on many networks at the same time by simply signing in instead of signing up (a great feature by itself)

4) a user reporting tool: users that see a spammer profile have the option of blocking him/her, but if they don't send a message to the admin, the latter might be unaware of the situation. A "report" or "flag" button would be nice to have.

As an added bonus (but I don't know if this already exists under the hood) I think that if a single profile gets banned on various networks (with some ratio or specific algorithm), Ning could blacklist it for good.

The fight against spamming will never be completely over, but these steps might be helpful for all Ning networks admins.

Has anyone else any other idea?

Paul Papadimitriou marked one of Courtenay's replies in Ning as useful. Courtenay replied to the idea "Broadcast a message needs a facelift".

Paul Papadimitriou marked one of Athena's replies in Ning as useful. Athena replied to the idea "Broadcast a message needs a facelift". Paul Papadimitriou and 2 other people think it's one of the best replies.

A comment on the idea "Email Digests" in Ning:

Thank you very much for weighing in and for the glimpse of the future roadmap.

I think a redesign of the email notifications will help a lot, even if the weekly/daily digests would be the optimal solution in the end. I understand the big undertaking that it requires and am very grateful that you're looking into it.

I, for one, believe that members have to get the possibility to turn all notifications off. This is an option available on all major social networks.

Thank you again and hi to the whole team.

Cheers. – Paul Papadimitriou, on August 19, 2009 01:30

Paul Papadimitriou marked one of Evan's replies in Ning as useful. Evan replied to the idea "Email Digests".

Paul Papadimitriou replied on August 14, 2009 08:05 to the idea "Improve the Tweets" in JS-Kit:

The way DISQUS works with the RE: @username seems to be more logical. Not only it eats up less space in a tweet, but also puts the user at the center of the action.

Paul Papadimitriou marked one of Jeroen de Miranda's replies in JS-Kit as useful. Jeroen de Miranda replied to the idea "Improve the Tweets".

Paul Papadimitriou started following the idea "Improve the Tweets" in JS-Kit.

A comment on the question "Can I change email?" in DandyID:

Thank you. Appreciate your answer! – Paul Papadimitriou, on July 24, 2009 05:52

Paul Papadimitriou marked one of Sara Czyzewicz's replies in DandyID as useful. Sara Czyzewicz replied to the question "Can I change email?".

Paul Papadimitriou started following the idea "Integration with Su.pr -- StumbleUpon's URL shortener" in twitterfeed.

Paul Papadimitriou replied on June 19, 2009 07:59 to the question "Can I change email?" in DandyID:

Any updates on that front?

Paul Papadimitriou started following the question "Can I change email?" in DandyID.

Paul Papadimitriou replied on June 04, 2009 11:01 to the idea "Blog import" in Ning:

This is the one I was referring to. Sorry for not having been back here earlier. Thank you Fabricio for finding it.

Paul Papadimitriou replied on May 08, 2009 04:57 to the idea "Ping.fm integration! :)" in atebits:

Ping.fm should be carefully implemented. Auto-blasting is cool, but triggers (or at least methods), available in the API, should clearly be added to the options, as removing the @ replies.

A comment on the idea "Retweet Options and one-click option" in atebits:

Thank you @atebits. Really appreciated. – Paul Papadimitriou, on April 22, 2009 10:17

Paul Papadimitriou marked one of Jonathan Wight's replies in atebits as useful. Jonathan Wight replied to the idea "Adding Groups or Stacks to Tweetie for Mac". Paul Papadimitriou and 3 other people think it's one of the best replies.

Paul Papadimitriou replied on April 22, 2009 04:25 to the idea "With multiple accounts, mark read tweets of shared followed people read across those accounts" in atebits:

The most important part for me is the ability to follow a user from a user-chosen Twitter account.

With the absence of groups, it's tantamount that Tweetie lets us choose from which account to follow a user when on his/her profile.