Who's the moderator here?

rubyonrails-talk
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For some reason, I can't get a post onto your forum. I have in the past, but now they seem to disappear? Are my posts' asking questions inappropriate? Is this some type of mans' club where women aren't allowed? Kathy

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Jeez Kathy, that’s a bit harsh isn’t it. Of course there is an invisible bot tracing your ip, then snapping a photo of you and using your facial features to ban you from the Rails mailing list if it sees you as a woman, what did you expect? sarcasm

Now, back to reality, as far as I know, nor the forum or the mailing list are moderated in any way, except for google maybe filtering out a very limited amount of spam (judging by the number of spammers that still come through).

My advise: create a gmail account and subscribe to the list, I have never had any problems with it and IMHO it’s better than a forum anyway.

Best regards

Peter De Berdt

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Google flags questionable stuff for moderator approval. This appears to be a couple posts a week, at max. So far everything I've seen has been a legitimate post, through. Google may have other mechanisms for blocking spam.

-faisal

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For some reason, I can't get a post onto your forum. I have in the past, but now they seem to disappear?

I have seen stuff from you in the past, and fairly recently. I think that if you have evidence for stuff disappearing you'd need to contact rubyonrails-talk-owner@googlegroups.com probably including message IDs if possible, so they can be found in the logs.

Are my posts' asking questions inappropriate? Is this some type of

Not that I've noticed, just they're outside my knowledge, so I've not replied.

mans' club where women aren't allowed?

I've noticed no traffic that suggests opposition to women, here. Given that we can't organize the banning of known spammers, I'd be more likely to assume this is some kind of glitch than something organized.

Kathy

        Hugh