Re: moderation of content (including junk and/or foul content) by peers, and by co-owners

Posted by Nalicter on Feb 03, 2009; 8:02am
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Suggestion-language-warning-tp661558p2262144.html

Graham Perrin wrote

I rarely seek a deprecated feature, but I wonder whether ratings can be re-introduced to Nabble — without cluttering or confusing the UI.

No offense, but I am really glad the rating system is gone. I think it was ambiguous in that a lot of people didn't know it was for moderation—they just thought it was for how much they liked the post. It made my stress levels go up.

Anyway, I do have a similar suggestion that I do like, however. I wouldn't mind so much if users could flag certain posts as having foul language or other such mentioned below.

Part of the reason I didn't like the rating system was that it had more than one option that ultimately went toward the same goal. If some such were reintroduced, rather than having stars, I would just let users flag it with certain labels (such as 'breaks rules', 'foul language', 'offensive', 'disturbing', etc.) These flags would be seen at the top of the post for everyone who went to see it. Forum administrators should be able to remove flags, and only authorized users should be able add them, I think (although it would be nice if the forum admin could see who added them, in case someone goes haywire and flags everyone's posts). I don't think these flags should necessarily go against the viewability of a person's posts on Nabble (that's what banning is for, I think). Perhaps there would be a vote count by each flag. A flag system like this I think would be far less ambiguous than a rating system.