   Moderation tools
  Ok, as per the IRC chat, discussion of what new moderation tools we need, what tools need updating, and what order we need them in.For starters, here's some items that have come up already:  * Senior Mods need to be able to unban/unsuspend people. This has already been promised to us and should be high priority.  * AP only IP bans. Useful, but not really necessary. Probably mid to low priority.  * Forum mods should probably be able to modify some of their settings without bothering a staff member. Probably lowish priority.  * Mods should be able to see the who a person sent a PM to in the activity history. This might have privacy implications, so it might be limited to senior mods. This seems like it should be an easy one, but it's still probably only mid to low priority.  * Ability to mass delete posts according to some criteria: IP address, poster, time/date. We should probably get a fairly firm idea on how this exactly should work before turning this over to the dev team. For example, how should safe guards and double checks work? I think at the minimum the form should in turn bring up another form that has summary of each post (like the view posts pages) potentially affected with a checkbox next to the post so that it can be manually excluded from the deletion. This also will serve as a double check to make sure the criteria hasn't been set too broadly.   
Quote:Original post by SiCraneFor starters, here's some items that have come up already:  * Senior Mods need to be able to unban/unsuspend people. This has already been promised to us and should be high priority.As an addendum to this: Moderators should be able to attach notes to user accounts (under the disciplinary page) that do not show up as warning levels.Quote:  * Mods should be able to see the who a person sent a PM to in the activity history. This might have privacy implications, so it might be limited to senior mods. This seems like it should be an easy one, but it's still probably only mid to low priority.This one should be low priority.Quote:  * Ability to mass delete posts according to some criteria: IP address, poster, time/date. We should probably get a fairly firm idea on how this exactly should work before turning this over to the dev team. For example, how should safe guards and double checks work? I think at the minimum the form should in turn bring up another form that has summary of each post (like the view posts pages) potentially affected with a checkbox next to the post so that it can be manually excluded from the deletion. This also will serve as a double check to make sure the criteria hasn't been set too broadly.Basically the same thing as I was thinking. The second page should display each thread to be deleted with a check mark next to them, and also the threads should link in such a way as to open a new window/tab (target=_blank). I also think there should be a checkbox right above the Delete Selected button on the second page that says something to the affect: "I have reviewed the threads to be deleted.", as a third check to make sure that someone doesn't accidentally blow up a lot of things.   ;Quote:Original post by WashuAs an addendum to this: Moderators should be able to attach notes to user accounts (under the disciplinary page) that do not show up as warning levels.This is probably actually a second tool or a modification of the original tool. Either way, I'd mark this is high priority, but a step below the unban/unsuspend funtionality.Quote:Quote:  * Mods should be able to see the who a person sent a PM to in the activity history. This might have privacy implications, so it might be limited to senior mods. This seems like it should be an easy one, but it's still probably only mid to low priority.This one should be low priority.Works for me.Quote:Basically the same thing as I was thinking. The second page should display each thread to be deleted with a check mark next to them, and also the threads should link in such a way as to open a new window/tab (target=_blank). I also think there should be a checkbox right above the Delete Selected button on the second page that says something to the affect: "I have reviewed the threads to be deleted.", as a third check to make sure that someone doesn't accidentally blow up a lot of things.That brings up a thought. Do we want to treat thread deletion and post deletion separately?;Quote:Original post by SiCraneQuote:Original post by WashuAs an addendum to this: Moderators should be able to attach notes to user accounts (under the disciplinary page) that do not show up as warning levels.This is probably actually a second tool or a modification of the original tool. Either way, I'd mark this is high priority, but a step below the unban/unsuspend funtionality.AgreedQuote:Quote:Basically the same thing as I was thinking. The second page should display each thread to be deleted with a check mark next to them, and also the threads should link in such a way as to open a new window/tab (target=_blank). I also think there should be a checkbox right above the Delete Selected button on the second page that says something to the affect: "I have reviewed the threads to be deleted.", as a third check to make sure that someone doesn't accidentally blow up a lot of things.That brings up a thought. Do we want to treat thread deletion and post deletion separately?Probably, not sure how we should seperate that though.   ;Quote:Original post by SiCrane  * Ability to mass delete posts according to some criteria: IP address, poster, time/date. We should probably get a fairly firm idea on how this exactly should work before turning this over to the dev team. For example, how should safe guards and double checks work? I think at the minimum the form should in turn bring up another form that has summary of each post (like the view posts pages) potentially affected with a checkbox next to the post so that it can be manually excluded from the deletion. This also will serve as a double check to make sure the criteria hasn't been set too broadly.I think this one is tricky. Sometimes otherwise productive members get banned for bad behavior in the lounge. We might not want to delete their contributions in other forums.   ;Quote:Original post by LessBreadI think this one is tricky. Sometimes otherwise productive members get banned for bad behavior in the lounge. We might not want to delete their contributions in other forums.I thought the idea was that we'd only use this functionality in cases where a user has gone on a spam-fest?  Ever been around when someone has managed to get 30 seperate posts containing porn in multiple forums?   ;  I've let the last few days of email from the mod list serve pile up, so I missed the full explication of the idea. As far as quickly removing spam goes, it sounds great.   ;  I think a useful automatic safeguard would be to require that the posts being deleted all fall within a maximum time range... say, two hours. It's unusual for spammed posts to go on longer than that.   ;  Another criteria for the mass delete could be forum then.   ;  I know I'm not a senior mod, but I think a quick hack to the "register" page to trap bad e-mail addresses would cut down on some of the dupes we see (a simple regex to capture email addresses with no '@' for example).   