ct: a shooting star (Default)
[personal profile] 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%)

azurelunatic: Vivid pink Alaskan wild rose. (Default)
[personal profile] azurelunatic

Title:
Sign-up by mail and e-mail

Area:
account creation, accessibility

Summary:
Make a secure option for an administrator to create an account on someone else's behalf, at special need.

Description:
Occasionally there is someone who cannot, for good and sufficient reasons, navigate Dreamwidth's account creation process (especially the CAPTCHA part), but has established through other means (e-mail, physical mail) that they are not a spammerbot, and they are in possession of an invite code and capable of sending and receiving e-mail.

Administrators should be able to create an account (given the invite code, the desired account name, e-mail address, and date of birth), on the behalf of these people. In order that this process be secure, this system should assign an arbitrary machine-generated password to the account if it's necessary to have a password initially, and automatically send a password reset link to the email address, and require a change of password immediately. Having successfully signed in, they would then complete the rest of the account creation process and use their account in a normal fashion. (Accounts created in this way should also have a record indicating this was the case, in case there is ever any situation where needing to know this is necessary.)

This would need extensive testing to make sure that this is actually accessible and workable.

If the service is abused, it could be discontinued, or a one-time convenience fee be levied in exchange for the time and trouble, or require this to be for paid account setup.

(Zarhooie says she volunteers to do the paperwork if it happens, even though it was 4am when she said it.)

Poll #2255 Sign-up by mail and e-mail
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 37


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Should be implemented as-is.
23 (62.2%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
3 (8.1%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
1 (2.7%)

(I have no opinion)
10 (27.0%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

azurelunatic: Vivid pink Alaskan wild rose. (Default)
[personal profile] azurelunatic

Title:
Spam Report Counts

Area:
anti-spam, user interface

Summary:
Provide a count of the spam reports for each view of them.

Description:
At the top and bottom of any given spam reports page listing the individual instances of reports about any given offender (both closed and open, in other words, and any future possible views), count the number of reports in this view and show that at the top and bottom of the page.

This may be Jossed if/when a new spam management interface comes about.

Poll #1473 Spam Report Counts
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 20


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Should be implemented as-is.
7 (35.0%)

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

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
13 (65.0%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

cesy: "Cesy" - An old-fashioned quill and ink (Default)
[personal profile] cesy

Title:
Specify who posted News posts in the email notification

Area:
news, notifications

Summary:
Specify who posted News posts in the email notification.

Description:
For people who mostly follow these announcements via the email notification that is sent out rather than reading it on their reading page, it is a little confusing because the email always states "There's a new announcement in dw_news" but doesn't say who posted the announcement.
Since Mark and Denise change who makes the announcements and since they refer to each other a lot during them it can take a while to figure out who made the announcement. It would be nice if it said something like "Mark made a new announcement in dw_news" instead.

Poll #1399 Specify who posted News posts in the email notification
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 33


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Should be implemented as-is.
28 (84.8%)

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

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
4 (12.1%)

(Other: please comment)
1 (3.0%)

cesy: "Cesy" - An old-fashioned quill and ink (Default)
[personal profile] cesy

Title:
On priv page, link back to admin page

Area:
admin area, privs

Summary:
Add a link from the priv page to the main admin area.

Description:
On http://www.dreamwidth.org/admin/priv/ (Privilege management page) there is no link back to http://www.dreamwidth.org/admin/ (Main admin tools page). This would be very useful, particularly as the priv page is not in site scheme and doesn't have any other link back to the main Dreamwidth site.

Poll #1241 On priv page, link back to admin page
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 26


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Should be implemented as-is.
12 (46.2%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
3 (11.5%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
2 (7.7%)

(I have no opinion)
9 (34.6%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

cesy: "Cesy" - An old-fashioned quill and ink (Default)
[personal profile] cesy

Title:
Link from staff page to staff journals

Area:
staff page

Summary:
Link from staff page to staff journals.

Description:
http://www.dreamwidth.org/site/staff.bml currently lists either people's legal names or online handles. I'd like to see links to their journals as well (either official or personal depending on their choice). I remember mentions that it's important that the site owners are also site users, and linking to their journals is one way of showing that, as well as being an official link to Denise and Mark's staff journals.

Edit: I should have said that this should be opt-in for current staff members.

Poll #1023 Link from staff page to staff journals
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 32


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Should be implemented as-is.
10 (31.2%)

Should be implemented with changes.
13 (40.6%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
2 (6.2%)

(I have no opinion)
7 (21.9%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

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