How I would like to see this is to have a button below each comment and post that says "report". This button should allow optional reasons to be given for the report (a blank field to enter reasons in) and the report feature should identify who reported the post to the admins/mods.
Not needed -- this can be done automatically while also presenting an incentive to use the built-in quality indicators already present in Hubski. mk has mentioned that users who are often ignored and have few quality indicators eventually hit a global ignore button. Individual posts that drive people to interact with an ignore button through a link attached to that post (whether the instance of username or tag attached to that post) should automatically go into a possibly-inappropriate queue that can be sorted by number of associated ignores.
This is the current plan: http://hubski.com/pub?id=59617 It might take some adjustment over time. However, I have little faith in top-down moderation systems. They often become arbitrary and abusive. I prefer that people decide for themselves who they do and don't want to engage with.
>I prefer that people decide for themselves who they do and don't want to engage with. This is what's currently killing reddit. What happens when Stormfront or ManhoodAcademy or whatever decide to all join up? Those users decide what content is here. Moderation has to be top-down. It's the only thing that works, that keeps aggie sites from going to shit.
Right but the crowd has the control on what actually is visible on the subreddit by the up/down vote system. Reddits mod tools are terrible and the users can bypass every single one of them and the system is designed deliberately this way. My advice on the matter is to take a strong stand early and keep being strong, reddit got overrun with mouthbreathers because of relaxed moderation and poor mod tools.
By the way what is your policy about trolls following others around and posting harassing replies? The influx from reddit has brought a few here.
We will see what the effect of the new update has. Personally, if someone is trolling another user on my post, I'll ignore them. Especially if they are bothering someone that follows me. Because of the following/sharing dynamic, there's more affinity between poster and commenter here. That will likely make the posts less tolerant of trolls. We will see how it plays out. I'm always looking to adjust and improve.By the way what is your policy about trolls following others around and posting harassing replies? The influx from reddit has brought a few here.
This is really relevant since inline images are allowed. But is this going to be enforced? Who's going to browse through reported comments/post?
Yeah, but right now there are like <6.000 of us, what happens when we're 20.000 or 100.000? I get that the site will change as the site grows, but how?
I guess you mean smart in the sense that people like us are satisfied. Smart is such an objective term but I totally agree.
but what's the cutoff number, the sweet spot of users? at what point does the community say "sorry, our userbase has got to its limit." And what if a user leaves? Ah, but now it's too late, every potential user has been turned away. It's tricky.