snooze button for specific people on your reading list

[niqaeli]

Title:
snooze button for specific people on your reading list

Area:
Reading page

Summary:
Allow the 'snoozing' of someone on your reading list for a set period of time.

Description:
Sometimes, someone your reading page gets off on a tangent that they stick to for several days or weeks, and you don't particularly want to follow it. Yet you don't want to unsubscribe for any number of reasons: for example, whatever it is about has a set end-date when they'll stop whittering constantly about it and you're otherwise and normally interested in reading them.

Reading filters do let you deal with this on a technical level by allowing you to take someone off your default filter, or by using a tag filter that doesn't include the tag for that particular content or at some future date when not-operators are implemented by specifically filtering out the tag for the particular content you are disinterested in (although either assumes that they tag consistently and reliably, which isn't something you can take for granted).

Either's a bit kludgy, though, especially as what I am particularly interested in is the ability to have this on a timer. I tend to forget to put people back on my default filter after a suitable period of time -- and it's almost always a topic related to a particular real world event that will happen and be done with or a kerfuffle that will burn itself out given time.

So allowing you to set a snooze for someone for a period of a time that you can set (three days, two weeks, a month, etc.) would be really helpful to my use of the site (and, I think, others' use as well).

From a technical perspective, I would imagine this could be folded into extant reading filter functionality; essentially, you're filtering someone out with a set datetime to stop doing so.

Poll #1401 snooze button for specific people on your reading list

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 36

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Should be implemented as-is.
21 (58.3%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
7 (19.4%)

(I have no opinion)
8 (22.2%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

comment unscreening

[kaigou]

Title:
comment unscreening

Area:
comments

Summary:
When unscreening a comment, instead of "your comment has been unscreened" confirm page, just go back to the unscreened comment.

Description:
Currently, to unscreen a comment, I click on "unscreen" and then I go to a brand-new page that asks me if I really want to unscreen. When I say yes, then I get another page that says "now the comment is unscreened" -- and then I have to go back multiple clicks to get back to the post where I'd unscreened the comment.

Either just send me back to the post (preferably the comment itself) when it's successfully unscreened

OR

Don't make me leave the page in the first place: I click on unscreen, and let Ajax unscreen the comment in-page.

What has me particularly confused (and is part of the usability issue for this) is that this behavior isn't consistent, and it's not obvious where it differs. On many comments, I can screen (or freeze), and the post's meta changes to reflect that (and in some styles, the post itself changes visually as well) -- then I can unscreen or unfreeze, and go back and forth without ever leaving the page.

But then, *sometimes*, I must go to a separate page to confirm, and there's the hassle, doubly so because it's unexpected because it breaks with the behavior I've been taught (by the same link, previously) is expected behavior.

Poll #1415 comment unscreening

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 29

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Should be implemented as-is.
15 (51.7%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
7 (24.1%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
6 (20.7%)

(Other: please comment)
1 (3.4%)