Allow paid users to buy paid comment features for visitors in their journals

[elf]

Title:
Allow paid users to buy paid comment features for visitors in their journals

Area:
commenting

Summary:
This would allow paid users to allow free or OpenID accounts to use normally paid-only features while commenting: having comments emailed to them, editing comments, tracking individual comment threads, and so on.

Description:
Inspired by a recent discussion about potentially allowing free/openID users to have their comments mailed to them. While giving more features to free accounts is not in DW's best interests, having a way to encourage users from other sites to come to DW is. This would allow DW users to tell their LJ friends that they'll still be able to use the comment features they care about.

I've got no idea how difficult the code would be, or what hassles in payments it would cause, so I'm not sure how practical this is, as described here. It probably needs some tweaking to be useful.

Paid users could have the option of paying a small bit (hrm, few dollars a month? Less? Half the cost of whatever paid level they have?) to allow users in their journal access to the most commonly desired paid features for comments.

These features would be somewhat useful for individuals, and greatly useful for communities to be able to offer their members. Because of the potential higher activity level at comms, price for an individual journal might be different from that of a community. (OTOH, maybe the increased usefulness for comms would balance out against the fact that paid comms don't get much use out of their increased number of icons.) The ability to buy points would allow community members to donate towards the total cost, rather than the main moderator having to pay all of it.

Turning on comment editing in a single journal might be fairly simple. This would be useful to almost anyone; pretty much everyone would rather have this ability than not.

Turning on individual thread tracking shouldn't be too much more difficult. (Maybe? I don't speak code.) This feature would be most useful for comms (which have somewhat less reason to purchase paid accounts in the first place) that have comment-porn contests or kink memes; the ability to offer individual thread tracking would be a reason for someone to set up a paid comm at DW instead of other sites.

Ability to have comments emailed to you is somewhat more complicated, because not everyone wants it. A journal might need a bit of text added to the comment form, "Email me this comment" with a checkbox. Or free/OpenID users might have a setting on their account allowing them to select "email me my comments from those journals where I'm eligible to receive them."

I don't know of other paid account commenting features, but if there are any, they might also be included. (Neither "thread tracking" nor "comment editing" are listed on the <a href="http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse?faqid=4">Paid account services list</a>; I had to log into a different account to confirm those aren't free features.)

Poll #2863 Allow paid users to buy paid comment features for visitors in their journals

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 67

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Should be implemented as-is.
23 (34.3%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
28 (41.8%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
8 (11.9%)

(I have no opinion)
8 (11.9%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Spam report feedback

[cesy]

Title:
Spam report feedback

Area:
spam reporting, comments

Summary:
Allow the anti-spam team some standard options for feedback, to thank users for reporting spammers, and redirect users who are reporting non-spam as spam.

Description:
When a member of the anti-spam team closes a spam report, it would be good if there was a way to send a note back to the spam report originator.

The proposed options would be along the lines of:
* Close this spam report with no feedback.
* Close this spam report with feedback of 'thank you for your report, spammer will be smacked'.
* Close this spam report with 'this did not appear to be spam'.
* Close this spam report with 'this is not the way to report a suspected ToS violation. Here is a handy link.'

People wouldn't be able to see the specific feedback on their spam reports, but would be able to see their percentages.

At over 75% instances of not-real-spam or dude-ToS-is-thattaway, someone might get an auto 7 day spamreportban.

Advantages are that helpful users who report spam could be thanked, and anyone who consistently and repeatedly reports comments they just don't like as spam wouldn't be able to waste the anti-spam team's time so easily.

Disadvantages are that people might be upset at getting either of the last two types of feedback, so they would need to be worded tactfully.

Poll #2860 Spam report feedback

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 48

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Should be implemented as-is.
35 (72.9%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
4 (8.3%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
2 (4.2%)

(I have no opinion)
7 (14.6%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)