Temporarily remove posting and/or commenting privs

[hatman]

Title:
Temporarily remove posting and/or commenting privs

Area:
Community (and Journal) Management

Summary:
As things stand, if someone breaks community rules, the options are limited. Removing posting access entirely or revoking membership are big steps. There should be a more moderate option for proportional response.

Best I can come up with is the ability for a mod (or journal owner) to remove posting and/or commenting privs with a preset time limit (a day, a week, a month, etc. - as chosen by the mod), after which privs are automatically restored.

This capability, if implemented, might also be handy in personal journals.

Description:
After my last suggestion, I kind of feel like I should make an effort to make this part entertaining. Don't think I can match it, but I'll at least try to give it some amusement value.

It was a clear day in the little frontier community. Tumbleweed blew through the streets. A crowd had gathered in the town square, talking of this and that.

And then the stranger showed up. The long coat opened. The people shrieked.

Their cries did not go unheeded. A figure dropped from a nearby rooftop, landing amidst a cloud of dust. Sunlight glinted off the copper badge. The mod stood, shielding the stranger from the crowd's view. "Put that away.'round here, we don't take kindly to folks who expose their spoilers to innocent eyes."

"Yeah, so?"

"You've been warned before. The rules are posted big as life on that sign yonder."

The stranger eyed the hammer hanging ready in the holster on the mod's hip. "Whatcha gonna do about it? Run me out of town? Just for a couple of spoilers? I don't think so."

"No, I'm gonna haul your sorry carcass off to jail."

"Jail? There's no jail in a little one megabyte town like this."

"Well, then, I reckon we'll just have to rustle up some devs to come build us one. Then I'll toss you in and tell the mechanical jailer -"

"Mechanical jailer? I thought this was a western."

The mod's eyes narrowed. "It's a steampunk western now. Deal with it."

The stranger wisely remained quiet.

"As I was saying... I'll tell the jailer when to let you out. Considering the nature of the infraction, I'll be nice and give you a cell with a window. You'll be able to comment on what others are saying. You just won't be able to start anything of your own for a while. After a week, well, maybe you'll have learned some manners. If not... I'm always up for a good hammer toss."

Poll #3537 Temporarily remove posting and/or commenting privs

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 51

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Should be implemented as-is.
29 (56.9%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
1 (2.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
4 (7.8%)

(I have no opinion)
17 (33.3%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Improve/customize the messages added to emails by the spam filter

[ct]

Title:
Improve/customize the messages added to emails by the spam filter

Area:
email, spam

Summary:
Currently, when Dreamwidth's spam filter flags a message that may or may not be spam, it forwards the message to the intended recipient and adds a paragraph to the beginning of the message explaining what happened. This message doesn't have the same feel as most other official/official-ish communication from Dreamwidth, so I'm suggesting it should be updated.

Description:
When email gets sent to a paid/seed user's @dreamwidth.org email address, it gets run through a program to weed out spam. Messages that are borderline - maybe spam, maybe not - are sent on to the user with some extra text prepended to the email explaining what happened. Right now, it looks like this:

<i>Spam detection software, running on the system "sb-lb02.dreamwidth.org", has identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original message has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or label similar future email. If you have any questions, see the administrator of that system for details.</i>

...which I'm pretty sure is the standard boilerplate that comes with the program. I'd like to see the message customized to be less impersonal/more user-friendly and to make it more obvious that even if the original email is spam, this message is legitimately from Dreamwidth.

Something else that may make it more obvious what these emails actually are would be to change the from and/or the subject of the email to reflect that it's a message from DW's spam filter rather than a message directly from the original sender, but I'm less sure of the etiquette involved there and of whether it would be feasible.

Poll #3538 Improve/customize the messages added to emails by the spam filter

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 28

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Should be implemented as-is.
13 (46.4%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
3 (10.7%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
2 (7.1%)

(I have no opinion)
10 (35.7%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)