[endianswap]

It has been years since I visited the website, but I remember FMyLife.com simply displaying the "approved" posts to anonymous users. If you register, though, you can rate posts but also view the incoming queue. It seemed to be successful because I never saw spam in the anonymous view and the spam posts in the new queue seemed to already have marks against it. To me it doesn't seem like PostSecret would be any different, but maybe I'm missing something (possibly because it's an iOS app we're discussing).

Also, is anyone aware of any websites crowdsourcing moderation through Amazon's mturk? It seems like that might work and it sounds cheaper than moderating 30k secrets a day in house (but it would probably be less accurate).

[akg]

Interesting idea to use optionally registered accounts for moderation; although I guess it kind of digresses from the point of anonymous posts.

Interesting idea to use mturk, it would probably be cost effective but the turn-around time may not make it feasible.

[prawn]

On one of my sites, a higher level of moderator has access to edit/delete while basic moderators (any regulars, basically) can "sin bin" a post for review/attention. Seems to work reasonably well in catching the worst posts.