Remove "disinterest" from moderation history

Posted under Bugs & Features

I often see users confused about "disinterest" being the reason an Approver skipped over their post (mainly in the Upload Feedback Thread). I think removing the "disinterest" message in the post moderation history will help make things clearer for them. Since it essentially means no reason was given, then just stating it was disapproved or replacing the message with "no reason given" would be more straightforward ways to express this. We removed the "X did not like the post enough to approve it" message for the same reason, so I think it would be reasonable to change this message as well.

As I was writing this, I also realized that saying "post #xxxxxx was disapproved" makes it sound like the Approver is actively against the post being approved even though they could have a more lukewarm opinion about it and just not like it enough. Changing it to "post #xxxxxx was not approved" would keep the connotation neutral and likely reduce the number of misunderstandings.

"Disinterest" as a term is rather apt, IMO. The approver wasn't interested enough to approve it.

Changing it to "no reason given" would just lead to complaints about how there should be a reason. It's the sort of thing that people will complain about no matter what.

People already use "no reason given for deletion" as an appeal reason because they don't know about disapprovals being wiped after 30 days or upon the post getting appealed or flagged but it's decently rare. Changing the message to literally say "no reason given" has a chance of leading to more appeals for this exact reason, giving approvers more work for no benefit to either party.

I don't have the time to hand craft reasons for every single post I don't approve when looking at thousands of posts a day. The alternative to that would be for me not to disinterest any posts except if I think it's poor quality or breaks the upload rules, but in turn that will flare up the "only n approvers looked at this" appeals. The one person doing this on a massive scale has finally stopped after being confronted for the hundredth time about it (quasi-exaggeration) but people will start asking questions about if their posts are even getting seen if they see no one's been pressing either the approve or disinterest button.

If there's a more neutral word that works then fine but disinterest already pretty aptly describes what happened to the post I find.

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