A lot of worries have been expressed, but Iâm not really worried about the rude button. It lets people know when they may have gone too far, in case that matters to them. And it lets Sb see more easily where problems most likely are, by letting the community vote on what is a problem. So, as usual, BLFâs problems will be dealt with â only more efficiently and with more community input, and people automatically get warned first.
It seems better than the alternative, where Sbâs daily load gets bigger and bigger and heâs expected to make decisions without much input from others.
Some interesting hypothetical problems have been brought up, but I prefer to prioritize issues which are actually happening over ones which arenât.
This is a big one for me. I donât give other users moderator permissions here because itâs extremely hard for a moderator to be objective and fair 100% of the time. And as a matter of fact I donât even entirely trust myself as a good moderator. Certain people and certain issues personally rub me the wrong way, and there are others that I would tend to view with much more leniency. But itâs not all about me, and the Rudeness Level will be a huge help as a quantifiable meter that I can take into account when I inevitably have to make hard moderation decisions.
The threads you mention about new members saying nothing in my book is from the spammers. This wont be stopped.
As far as thread bloat goes stop the continued quoting of quoted posts to the point they cannot be read. a bit like how this post is going.
I agree with the ones that mentioned that it is better to give a personal thanks in writing rather than hit a button.
Unfortunately I donât know how to achieve that on a technical level, my apologies. But I agree it was kind of a big ugly blob in the middle of the panel, so I added a ârudenessâ label inside the meter and removed the big title.
Ah, I didnât realize that itâs become a religious war. That explains why just the other day I ran across a complaint about that on a technical mailing list, and I wondered what the big deal was.
For those who donât mind using a browser extension, you can paste this in to limit the maximum nesting level of quotes. Use the âimportâ feature in the âStylishâ extension.
Was hoping and waiting for something like that in the time of the cometa double troubleâŚ
On the other hand,i have 0 out of 10 - so what does it mean?
I am really liking the new ârude buttonâ feature. It levels the field for all members.
Rude is rude whether one is a seasoned BLF member, a one day old new person, or anywhere in between.
Since this feature was implemented I have noticed there has been an almost immediate change in the posting behavior of some in all three of those categories.
[ I would fall into the âin betweenâ member myselfâŚâŚ in between seasoned and new. ]
I like the fact that each individual can see their ârudeness quotientâ. Even though it has shrunk to super small, I hope it does remain visible to the individual.
I think a âthank youâ or â+1â button at the bottom of a post would give others the option to acknowledge a post they wanted to without necessarily having to quote it and reply. Thus keeping threads cleaner.
I also think this should be unique to each post and not combined for a cumulative total or go toward karma points.
That only has the potential to turn things into a circus and / or a popularity contest.
These are my thoughts on the matter. YMMV
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Also, what pilotdog68 said below sums it up perfectlyâŚâŚ.