Moderate learning community membership

We learned this lesson several months ago in our learning community for the Celebrate Oklahoma Voices project , but I had it reinforced again today on the Storychasers site . When you have an online learning community, a best-practice to avoid spammers is to moderate all new members. This can be a hassle, but given the persistence of spammers in seeking to join learning communities so they can post garbage there, it really is essential. As spam messages go, this one wasn’t horrific since i