Monday, February 12, 2007

How Do I Moderate?

Lots of folks using Atlas' user-contribution function ask us about the moderation feature.

If you want to let your readers contribute to your map, but are concerned about things getting out of hand, select "Moderate User Contributions" in the "Edit Map Properties" popup. When this option is selected, contributions or edits from users will be held in a queue for you to review before showing up on the live site.

To review and publish contributions in the queue, go to the edit screen of your moderated map and select "Moderate" from the list of links in the upper right corner of the map. Here's what it looks like:

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