Feature request: "report this thread" button

Agavenwurm · n00b Joined: 16 May 2004 Posts: 8

Sorry for going Half-Topic, but I think a better way to do this would be the "Report Post Mod" of the phpBB2, giving users the possibility to report Posts with a small "!" Button next to the "Quote"-Button.

Moderators then get a list (and, if requested, a popup like the one shown, when a new PN arrived) of reported posts, if there are any new ones...

Earthwings · Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 7:55 am Post subject:

Split from https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=28820

I remember discussing this before, can't find the thread though (if it was one). I'm kind of afraid getting tons of "abuse" reports if reporting was that easy :wink:

gentoo_lan · Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 10:33 pm Post subject:

That feature would actually be a good thing. If it were implimented and abuse reports skyrocketing, I would be willing to help you moderate if necessary.

Omega21 · Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 7:21 am Post subject:

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i think everyone who uses the forums would turn into a pseudo moderator which is a good thing but what happens if people abuse it for instance if a load of windows users come and press it on every article?
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Deathwing00 · Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 11:59 pm Post subject:

Removed useless posts by request: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-309667-start-0-postdays-0-postorder-asc-highlight-.html

rouben · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 12:08 am Post subject:

Open moderation could be an interesting thing to try... one might want to implement it in such a way so that if a person gets an X number of posts in a Y amount fo time (e.g. 500 posts over the course of 3 weeks or more) then they would be granted limited moderation privileges. The reason for the time limitation is to avoid people from writing scripts that would post garbage (or people actually posting garbage without the aid of scripts) in hopes to get moderation privileges. The moderation access wouldn't turn itself on automatically, one would have to go into their profile screen to turn it on (in effect they would have to volunteer explicitly, and in order to be eligible to volunteer, they'd have to have some experience on this forum).

Granted, the open moderation policy would leave a lot of the board open to potentially malicious attack, but the time limitation would weed out people who come here just to get mod status from the people who actually want to help. I think open moderation is a proven concept that has been proven over and over again. I mean, check out Slashdot and Wikipedia, both can be considered as examples of open moderation that works. The idea is that the number of people that want to help will always outweigh the number of people that want to do harm, and the end result would be the overall "evolution" of the system.

Just an idea I wanted to throw out there... what do you guys (and gals) think?

Omega21 · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 2:27 am Post subject:

I still think Karma is a good way to go. Let others give you recommendation. That way, spammers dont get mod priviledges.
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beandog · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 2:37 am Post subject:

rouben · Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 1:24 am Post subject:

discomfitor · l33t Joined: 21 Feb 2003 Posts: 927 Location: None

I think the mods do a fine job as it is. They've left several places where you can report spam/violations, and they attend to these matters very quickly. Self moderation on these forums will simply remove their (the forums) reason for being. If I want to moderate myself, I'll go on irc. If I want to have someplace to discuss something constructively with a large group of people, I'd rather have someone who can weed out the trolls and the crazies if need be.
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Naib · Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 5:36 pm Post subject: Report thread option

I visit the electro-tech forum to add my wisdom to whoever needs it, or take it when I need it

I noticed something this forum and that one seem to use the same backend (PHP??)

Now look at this thread

http://www.electro-tech-online.com/viewtopic.php?t=15430

you see next to the "QUOTE" button there is a "report" button.

any chance of getting summing like that for the Gentoo forum?
I mean we have the "report" thread and all but this might reporting easier
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jdgill0 · Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 5:54 pm Post subject:

Nope don't see it. Do you have to be a forum member to see that button?
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Naib · Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 6:03 pm Post subject:

oh yer, looks like you do.
just used another browser and it aint there

Basically to the right of the QUOTE button there is a red exclamation mark button that reports that post
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Earthwings · Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 6:06 pm Post subject:

Merged the last three posts.
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moocha · Watchman Joined: 21 Oct 2003 Posts: 5722

I'm not so sure such a feature would be a good thing. There's the potential to annoy the hell out of the mods, like cokehabit pointed out, and finding the Report Guideline violations, duplicates or misplaced posts topic isn't that difficult. Additionally, it would encourage sloppy reporting: with the current system, when I want to report a topic, I also link to the main thread if it's a dupe, or provide additional info when appropiate (the reasoning being "if I bother to report it I might just as well do a good job"); with a quick-and-dirty report button this would be so easy that most users would probably not bother to provide that additional info.
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nixnut · Posted: Sat May 07, 2005 12:55 pm Post subject:

who_cares · n00b Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 2

hi,
wouldn't it be easier to use the report posts hack to deal with spam
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pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20090

Merged previous.
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who_cares · n00b Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 2

sorry this thread didn't show when I searched

edudlive · Guru Joined: 06 Jan 2004 Posts: 557

What about adding the report feature, but only report it after a certain number of reports (2-5 maybe?)

ChojinDSL · l33t Joined: 07 Jul 2003 Posts: 784

I think it would be very convenient if in the forums there was an added button for "report this as spam". You find a post which is obviously spam or whatever, and you just click the button and the mods will be notified automatically.

Or, to make it perhaps a little more detailed, you click on the button, and an automatically formatted, editable message is prepared to be sent to the mods. It could automatically include the link to the thread and the user who made the post. The user who is reporting the post, could give a short description as to why this post needs to be removed.