An account username and password should have been mailed to you once you completed your conference registration. If you forgot your password or didn't receive one, feel free to use the Lost Password feature. If you are not attending the conference, but still want an account additions will be considered on a case by case basis. Send to view the abstracts being presented at the conference. As the conference approaches, the ICDC7 staff will also be adding the posters and speaker presentations.
You might also want to look at the schedule to see the order of events.

During the conference, each presentation will be published on the main page at the start of the talk.  The "story" will contain a link to the talk abstract as well as a link to the full presentation so you can follow along on your computer.  Questions and comments can be posted at the bottom of each story with the highest moderated being addressed during the question and answer session as well as the afternoon discussion panel.

In addition, any user contributed stories, online resources, posters, abstracts, surveys, photos, figures,  and disscussions will add value to the conference.

The moderation system is designed to sort the good and "not-so-good" from the steady stream of information that flows through the web site. Wherever possible, it tries to make the readers of the site take on the responsibility.

The goal is that each reader will be able to read the ICDC7 web site at a level that they find appropriate. The impatient can read nothing at all but the original stories. Some will only want to read the highest rated of comments, and others will want to read every last word.

1. Promote Quality
2. Make ICDC7 as readable as possible for as many people as possible.
3. Do not require a huge amount of time from any single moderator.
4. Do not allow a single moderator a 'reign of terror'
   

Moderation takes place by selecting an adjective from a drop down list that appears next to comments. Descriptive words like 'Flamebait' or 'Informative'. Bad words will reduce the comments score by a single point, good words increase a comments score by a single point. All comments are scored on an absolute scale from -1 to 5. Logged in users start at 1, although this can vary from 0 to 2 based on their overall contribution to discussions. Moderators obviously can not moderate their own comments.

Concentrate more on promoting than on demoting. The real goal here is to find the good material and let others read it. Do not promote personal agendas. Do not let your opinions factor in. Try to be impartial about this. Simply disagreeing with a comment is not a valid reason to mark it down. Likewise, agreeing with a comment is not a valid reason to mark it up. The goal here is to share ideas.

Karma is an internal value the ICDC7 website uses to determine things like initial posting score, and moderation eligibility. To you, karma is a label like "Good" or "Bad". Many things on the ICDC7 affect karma, including moderation done to your comments, accepted story submissions, and spending time on the site.

The ICDC7 website is meant to be an active collaboration between it's readers. Our hope is that every conference attendant will contribute their unique knowledge and journalism skill.

At the top of the page you will see a button labeled "Submit News." This give you the reader the ability to submit anything which you think might interest the readers of the ICDC7 website. Your submission will be sent to the ICDC7 editorial staff for review and posted if it is approperiate. It will appear in the center of the ICDC7 home page.

The ICDC7 website is meant to be an active collaboration between it's readers.  Our hope is that every presenter will contribute the material they are sharing at the conference.

At the top of the page you will see a button labeled "Proceedings."  Clicking on this button will take  you to the ICDC7 online proceedings database.  Here you will find the extended abstracts submitted to the conference staff and the actual presentation or poster when provided by the attendant.

To add your material to the proceedings click on "Add Proceeding" and enter in the information requested.  Your submission will be sent to the ICDC7 editorial staff for review and added if it is approperiate.

The ICDC7 web site is meant to be an active collaboration between it's readers. Our hope is that every conference attendant will contribute their unique resources

At the top of the page you will see a button labeled "Resources." Clicking on this button will take you to the ICDC7 online resources database. Here you will find various categories of websites that have been contributed by other readers or the conference staff.

To add your resource click on "Add Online Resource" and enter in the information requested. Your submission will be sent to the ICDC7 editorial staff for review and posted if it is approperiate.

As is-- This is the default setting attached to every comment when you have moderation privileges. Normally, you should not need to actually select this option, but if your mouse slips and you accidentally moderate up or down a comment you didn't mean to, you can undo that mistake by choosing Normal before you hit the "Moderate" button.

Offtopic -- A comment which has nothing to do with the story it's linked to (song lyrics or comments about another topic entirely) is Offtopic.

Flamebait -- Flamebait refers to comments whose sole purpose is to insult and enrage. If someone is not-so-subtly picking a fight, it's Flamebait.

Troll -- A Troll is similar to Flamebait, but slightly more refined. This is a prank comment intended to provoke indignant (or just confused) responses. A Troll might mix up vital facts or otherwise distort reality, to make other readers react with helpful "corrections." Trolling is the online equivalent of intentionally dialing wrong numbers just to waste other people's time.

Redundant -- Redundant posts are ones which add no new information, but instead take up space with repeating information either in the ICDC7 story, the attached links, or lots of previous comments. For instance, some posters cut and paste otherwise legitimate comments in multiple places in the same discussion; the pasted versions are Redundant.

Insightful -- An Insightful statement makes you think, puts a new spin on a given story (or aspect of a story). An analogy you hadn't thought of, or a telling counterexample, are examples of Insightful comments.

Interesting -- If you believe a comment to be Interesting (and it's not mostly Redundant, Offtopic, or otherwise lame), it is.

Informative -- Often comments add new information to explain the circumstances hinted at by a particular story, fill in "The Other Side" of an argument, provide specifications to a product described too vaguely elsewhere, etc. Such comments are Informative.

Funny -- Think of Funny as being a good moderation choice if you actually think the comment is funny, not just because it seems intended to be. Not every knock-knock joke is Funny.

Overrated -- Sometimes you'll run into a comment which for whatever reason has been moderated out of proportion -- this probably means several moderators saw it at nearly the same time, thought it was Funny, Insightful etc, and their scores added together exaggerate its relative merit. (A knock-knock joke at +5, Funny) Such a comment is Overrated. It's not knocking the original poster to say so, but it's probably better to spend your mod points on comments which are deserving of being moderated up.

Underrated -- Likewise, some comments get smashed lower than they perhaps deserve by overzealous moderators. If you moderate a comment as Underrated, you're saying that it deserves to be read by more people than will see it at its current score. As with Overrated, if you can think of a more specific moderation reason, do so -- if a comment has already been moderated with an appropriate label though, and you just want to indicate that it deserves greater visibility, that's what Underrated is for. However, if a comment is labeled with a fitting (negative) label, choosing Underrated isn't such a great idea, because you could end up with contradictions like "+5, Flamebait."

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