[2016-06-11] Crackdown on rudeness

Cool feature, I wish more sites had that.

You should put a space or two between the Rude button and the cancel link.

You rude Admin, you! :wink:

Wait, what happened to the test comment that asked us to mark it as rude?

Edit: Never mind. I missed this line in the 1st post:

Too bad, I was going to mark and unmark it as rude multiple times to make sure it doesnā€™t cause a crash.

You can even ā€œrudeā€ yourself, just tried on one of my own posts, so ignore that one sb :laughing:

+1

old eyes, wrong glasses etc. :slight_smile:

:smiley:

Did you try to un-rude yourself to make sure the counter goes back down?

Are you saying on the confirmation screen below where it says ā€œAre you sure you want to mark this post as rude? Please ONLY use this for rude, lewd, or conflictive posts.ā€ ?

Yes, to space out the choices to avoid accidentally clicking the wrong choice, and for general readability. The same goes for the confirmation screen when unmarking a rude post.

The confirmation screen is a good idea. It prevents someone from abusing the rude feature by rapidly clicking all of the Rude! links on the same comments page. But what stops someone who has a grudge from marking the multiple comments of the same person to quickly push up their rude meter?

Cool, I hope this new feature will help. It seems like a much better idea than the css-based blacklist thing I made for personal use.

Anyway, Iā€™m going to ā€˜rudeā€™ this comment so I can see what the meter looks like when itā€™s non-zero. I styled the button, but donā€™t know what the meter is going to look like. :slight_smile:

Thanks for the feedback EyeballFryer.

Regarding the spacing between the two buttons, unfortunately that part isnā€™t easy to tweakā€¦ :frowning: Sorry about that!

About the possibility of somebody with a grudge, yes, I thought about that too. I could add some checks against that, but I really donā€™t think itā€™s necessary, because (1) the hits arenā€™t permanent, and (2) at least youā€™ll know that somebody has a grudge against you. :smiling_imp: And I guess (3) would be that expressing a grudge via the Rudeness Level meter is less bad than expressing it in writing on the public forum. :stuck_out_tongue:

OK, Iā€™m at 11/10 rudeness level. What happens to me now? Do I get my flashlights taken away? Do I go stand in a corner?

Thanks ToyKeeper! Youā€™ll probably have 2 points now, since I also gave you one for testing purposes. :wink:

Another suggestion: The confirmation screen should show the comment that the user wanted marked or unmarked as rude.

Yes, the level can go overboard. Basically, that meter is normally for a different purpose, but it was the closest thing I could find to the functionality I needed. In the context of this system, consider anything over 1 or 2 to be a problem, and 10 is absolutely shameful. Anything over 10ā€¦ well, a psychiatrist be in order! :smiley:

By the way, how did you pull off the 11/10 rudeness level already? Marking your own posts I assume?

t would be nice to have an ignore user button if thatā€™s possible. Not that Iā€™d ignore any of the wonderful members we have here. But it would solve a lot of problems I would think.

Thanks for doing this. :) I have noticed this increase in rudeness, and it has made me not want to comment as much on things.

Nobody likes me around here. :cry:

But yes, I marked my own posts. Iā€™m at 20/10 now. I doing a bit of Q/A testing for you. I wanted to see if a crash would occur if my rude meter went too high. However, Iā€™m getting tired of hunting down my own comments to mark myself down.

You know whatā€™s funny? Sometimes on the confirmation page, I see an ad for ā€œBest Tactical Flashlight. 800 Lumen MilTac Survival Torch. Same Tech Used by U.S. Navy Seals.ā€ Can we mark that rude too?

:+1:

Very nice! but what if a users start to abuse the Rude! button and reports a large numbers of posts from the same user? Is there a limit of how many rude reports can someone submit in a day?

Maybe implement a ā€œrude validityā€ rule, X amount of rude reports to score a rude point?