My method for approving is going through the queue, and opening any image that looks decent enough in a new tab, hiding everything at the end. However, flagged images don't have a "moderation queue" bar, so there's no way to approve these from the page itself. This makes it a real pain to approve these images, and since some bright spark saw fit to enter nearly every touhou image on the site into the moderation queue, I've had to go back and forth a LOT. I think it's just an oversight that this bar doesn't appear for flagged images, correct?
Additionally, I tried to post this to the trac, but it gave an error. Could've been on my end, my internet's been acting up a lot lately with weird DNS issues, but anyway, that's why I'm making a forum post for a bug report.
There's a bug with the catchpa that if you don't solve the math problem it throws an error instead of telling you that you need to solve it (unless they solved that since I last had to post a bug report.)
I failed to see it the first time, but I tried again and it still gave me an error. I'll try it one more time, since I have the text written down here now anyway.
Bapabooiee said: Somewhat off-topic here, but, there isn't any way to tell who flagged a post?
If that's the case, then is it even possible to crack-down on rampant flaggers? That sounds like it could be a real problem.
I agree that it should be shown, regardless. There's no reason we should let a person who flags good art be any more anonymous than a person who uploads bad art.
スラッシュ said: This makes it a real pain to approve these images, and since some bright spark saw fit to enter nearly every touhou image on the site into the moderation queue, I've had to go back and forth a LOT.
I have this sneaking suspicion that this is somehow related to the comments on post #568737.
スラッシュ said: I agree that it should be shown, regardless. There's no reason we should let a person who flags good art be any more anonymous than a person who uploads bad art.
Has anonymous flagging been that much of a problem? We could get into a huge discussion about this like last time but I'd rather not.
At the very least flagging should be limited to priv+ (it could be already, I have no way to check) and the person who flagged it should be visible to administrators only so that they can deal with problem flaggers.
Certainly non-staff members don't need to know who flagged an image.
Flagged images should have a reason (I thought they required one, but one doesn't seem to show up in the queue) and the person who flagged it should show up as well. Both of these should be visible only to Janitors/Mods, of course.
Granola said: At the very least flagging should be limited to priv+ (it could be already, I have no way to check) and the person who flagged it should be visible to administrators only so that they can deal with problem flaggers.
When I was a Member, I remember trying to flag a couple of really crappy images that made it through the queue, and it didn't work. So, I'm more-than sure that only Privileged-or-higher members may flag posts.
'Sides, if regular Members could flag posts, we would've seen a lot of vandalism. Posts marked with status:flagged are generally marked as such for good reason, and Privileged-or-higher generally also have a good idea of what crappy content is (though, there are probably are exceptions, of course). So I guess that's fine.
And my comment about anonymous flagging was just me expressing a possible concern, not highlighting any particular problem, since it looks like that flagging doesn't really seem to be abused.
スラッシュ said: There's no reason we should let a person who flags good art be any more anonymous than a person who uploads bad art.
Excuse me? Of course there is a big one. Posting bad art doesn't make anyone personally butthurt. With exceptional cases of trolling, people usually are posting because they want to share. If the art is bad, mods don't approve it, simple as that. Do I really have to elaborate how different is the case with deleting already uploaded and accepted post? The best argument for leaving unapproval anonymous comes from this discussion thread. Instead of doing the job: considering the art quality (and the fact that someone cared, because most don't give a damn) and then simply moderate them as usual, witch hunt began: "Who can that be? I've seen him in that comment. Or maybe in that one?" How can you expect anyone flagging bad art, being posted by someone from higher tier of this community when you're not anonymous? And I dare you to say that all posts coming from contributors, janitors, mods or even admins are flawless.
Therefore I concur Granola's opinion. Person who's flagging should be visible to admins only - or maybe even only to this site owner. I wouldn't completely deny normal members to flag though, only seriously restrict them (for example only 1 flag per day, and only available after similar trial period as is the case with commenting). If other (member+) folks begin to abuse flagging, lowering day limits should do the job. But if you stop them from being anonymous, then in fact you can remove this function completely.
I've got nothing to hide. Let the janitors and everyone up see that I'm the one who flagged something. In fact, let everyone see. What are they gonna do? Give me a bad record? And rather let the mods let me know I'm doing something wrong than let me continue to abuse a feature anonymously.
