Greetings, Fieldhands. Any member of the site who writes a blog post will now have that post go into moderation before it appears. Sorry to have to restrict your expression, but we've had a run of spam bloggers who join the site and then create blogs posts that are off-topic.

I've been showing up and cleaning up and suspending them, but that gets old and tiresome. I've made the site visible to members only for a while. That works, but it's too restrictive. Once I open things back up, though, the bad ones return.

I just discovered the option for sending all blog posts into moderation, so I think we can keep the site open while making it less attractive to those who join for non-Fieldhand-related reasons. It's a tradeoff: members posting on topic need to wait a bit for the posts to appear, and the bad ones discover that this is not a welcome place. There are a total of 6 admins with the ability to approve posts, so there should not be too much of a delay.

With Happy New Year wishes from your friendly site creator/admin,
Susan

Make sure to look through the existing groups above for one that matches your location before you start a new one!

The Field's new address is http://narconews.com/thefield.
Read Al's announcement here on Fieldhands.