Who seconds?

I thought AHA promised "no moderation"

Actually I didn't promise "no moderation"..  I just haven't coded any yet!

I think moderation, in moderation, is a good thing.  Rarely, if ever, was a posting deleting.

Absolutely nobody...we've had enough dancing bananas today thank you. 

"Rarely, if ever, was a posting deleting."

Shit, it's been all of 12 hours and you've already deleted some posts?

Somebody's going to have to be responsible for changing the sidebar!

How does the sidebar changing work?

Since I already know how to maintain the sidebar I'm a natural for the position of moderator.

;-)

You're assuming it works in the same way.  It might be some special magic!

Anyway it doesn't need to be quite as elaborate as Joel's backend.  All you really need are a couple of extra links for moderator types (which means you need authentication and cookies but that's easy) that allow a flag to be set for deleted posts.

I know this is really obvious but my point is it's trivial and should be an afternoon's work if you're not worried about a slew of admin screens behind the scenes.

Currently the sidebar is static HTML text -- very annoying to change.

I think we'll need a bit of a software upgrade before we move ahead with moderation / sidebar changing.

After I fix a few bugs related to my day job (and after I drop my daugher off at school) I'll try and get the subversion repository up for this site.

Yeah, adminning is trivial. You just need to be able to send posts to limbo.

Hooking up a bayesian filter (assuming you want one) might be slightly more tricky.  :-)

Bayesian filtering was basically only useful for "Fuck this asshole is annoying, I'd like to moderate his posts from now on."

Strange, I just posted as normal. Must have been because of my IP address.

And it could STILL be useful for just that.  :-)

"Hooking up a bayesian filter (assuming you want one) might be slightly more tricky.  :-)"

Joel's implementation was terribly simplistic, and was prone to false positives (it was detrimental more than it was beneficial, in my time observing it). Weighting a post based upon the source IP, nick, URL, and the length and content of the post isn't terribly difficult.

I think Joel's implementation was perfectly fine as long as it was human reviewed.

There already exists an open source bayesian filter for PHP..  I've never used it but it might be worth popping in.

Could you just run posts through a separate filter like SpamAssassin?  I once had a WordPress plugin which would run comments through the SpamAssassin installation which was already running on my server, and it seemed to work pretty well.

Joel's implementation would have been OK if ?joel ever saw any posts approved rather than just deleted, or if it had been used strictly for spam and not editorially as well.

Then again, an autopilot filter that filters out posts crtitical posts must have suited him just fine.