New enhancements to the UK Fundraising Forum
Howard Lake | 17 February 2005 | News
We’ve added two new facilities on the UK Fundraising Forum, one to aid searching and one to limit further attempts to post inappropriate content.
New messages posted to the UK Fundraising Forum, where fundraisers share advice and experience with other fundraisers, now have an additional facility. At the bottom of each new post you will find a list of similar or related discussion threads. This facility is designed to complement the existing forum search tool.
The facility only applies to new messages posted in the past 10 days or so, and doesn’t apply retrospectively to all messages posted over the last eight and a half years. The “similar threads” tool is automated and not constructed by a human editor: some of its results are clearly related, but others seem to have a less clear link. Still, we hope it proves a useful additional tool.
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The second enhancement is designed to prevent future abuse of the Forum. Several new users have posted irrelevant or inappropriate content to the Forum. Although we act swiftly to remove these messages from the Forum and to ban that user from even viewing the Forum, let alone posting another message, we are sure most legitimate users would prefer that these messages weren’t posted in the first place.
So, we have reinstituted a further stage of pre-moderation for new registered users: their messages will not go live until we have checked them. While this will slow the speed of discourse on the Forum for new users, once they have demonstrated their bona fides they will be able to post messages instantly.
The UK Fundraising Forum is the largest, most active and longest-running online discussion forum for fundraisers in the UK. There’s no charge to use it, its archives are available to explore without registering, and both fundraisers and suppliers/consultants are welcome to register to use it.
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.