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It would help if you can give an example. To judge from your comments below about "sack the maintainer" you do have one in mind. –  poolie Oct 17 '11 at 4:01

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For new bug reports on Launchpad the terminology is triaging, rather than moderating.

Triaging gives bugs a relative importance and priority, in addition to categorising them against the correct part of Ubuntu. You can read more about the triaging facilities at:

Occasionally (but very rarely) patent nonsense gets filed in Launchpad, in which case it is marked "Invalid"—being impossible to process further. Marketing spam added as comments to existing bug reports may also be deleted.

Does that answer your query? Is there any area that you're still interested in, or which you'd like expanding with more detail?

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Bug 45419 asks for a way for users to report posts/comments/content as spam or abuse. At the moment there is no formal mechanism but you can as in #launchpad or file a support question against Launchpad itself.

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Is it moderated? Well depends upon what you mean by "Moderated". Is it customizable in regards to team creation and management? Yes, you can moderate your team(s) and/or project(s) on Launchpad. Quite easily too once you get the hang of it. But in general usage, difficult to say. Anyone can go look at the site and browse but to do anything you do actually have to register and confirm your account. From there it's pretty much "Have at it..." at least to me.

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What about abusive,"inflammatory",inappropriate language in bug comments? –  leoquant Jul 9 '11 at 17:51
I haven't personally seen much of that. Either people get gently reminded to stay on topic and behave themselves, or, I guess, LP is not a very fertile ground for trolling around, so people stay away, and troll facebook users. –  Christoph Jul 9 '11 at 21:24
Comments that are either spam, rude or inappropriate in nature, or completely off-topic are either just ignored, or marked as an invalid bug/comment and then tossed in the "forgotten" bin. Other than that it's usually left alone and is most often free of any major issues. –  zkriesse Jul 9 '11 at 22:58
If a bug comment comes with a "sack the maintainer" the post should be removed imho. (as soon as possible) –  leoquant Jul 10 '11 at 5:24
@leoquant, if one of the answers has addressed your question would you mind marking it as accepted with its checkmark? It would also be great if you could vote up any helpful answers. –  John S Gruber Jun 13 '12 at 15:38

Mostly not. Launchpad relies heavily on the community: bad bug reports are marked as invalid and simply forgotten.

For bad comments theres no "report button" but you can request removal on Launchpad Answers atleast for spam.

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If a bug comment comes with a "sack the package maintainer", it should be removed imho. –  leoquant Jul 10 '11 at 5:21

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