ninetydegrees: Art & Text: heart with aroace colors, "you are loved" (Default)
[personal profile] ninetydegrees

Title:
Community Management: keep track of canceled invitations

Area:
community management

Summary:
On http://www.dreamwidth.org/community/sentinvites, community admins can see who has accepted an invitation to their community, rejected it or hasn't answered yet. If you cancel an invitation for someone, their username disappears from the list. It would be nice if it didn't do that but added 'canceled' as the invitation status instead.

Description:
The cherry on top would be able to add a note explaining why we canceled the invite (wrong username, joined in the meantime, changed mind, etc.)

The moon would be a timestamp and the username of the admin who canceled it (quite like what Azz suggested in http://dw-suggestions.dreamwidth.org/1323180.html I believe).

Poll #9804 Community Management: keep track of canceled invitations
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 59


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Should be implemented as-is.
39 (66.1%)

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

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
20 (33.9%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

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

Title:
Log filter changes (user-viewably)

Area:
access filters, reading filters, user-facing logs

Summary:
Show a log of changes to filter membership (access and reading) over time.

Description:
Inspired by http://dw-suggestions.dreamwidth.org/385524.html, it would be nice to see at what point in time various users (or feeds/communities) were added to or subtracted from access and reading filters.

If this is logged now, it is not logged so a user can see it. It probably would not solve any real deep and pressing everyday problem for most people, but occasionally either something comes up, or there's a need to research. This could also be helpful in discovering the sneaky kind of account compromise where someone with unobserved physical access to a logged-in session quietly adds themselves to filters they were not in originally.

The log should probably stretch as far back as practical, paginate sensibly, and be able to be sorted and filtered.

It should be viewable by all filters, by only access or only reading, by any specific single filter, and by any user. (Anything else that would be helpful?)

If filtering, sorting, slicing, and dicing would significantly add to the complexity to implement or expense to run, it could be implemented with a basic view at first, or have advanced features be reserved as paid.

It should have appropriate contextual links to modify filters and membership.


I don't imagine that this would be any kind of pressing priority to implement, I just want it in Bugzilla so someday someone who's bored and cruising through can say "Oh boy! That sounds like great fun to code! I think I'll pick that!"

Poll #9496 Log filter changes (user-viewably)
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 58


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Should be implemented as-is.
29 (50.0%)

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

Shouldn't be implemented.
2 (3.4%)

(I have no opinion)
27 (46.6%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

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

Title:
Community Moderation Log

Area:
communities, moderation queue

Summary:
Show the last (reasonable number of) community moderation actions on a special page. This should particularly include the username of the moderator.

Description:
Community moderation queues are one of the unfinished areas of the site that could use some sprucing up.

Currently there is no visible record of which community moderator took action in the moderation queue, nor exactly what that action was.

Keeping a record of the moderation queue from the beginning of time could conceivably take up a hefty chunk of space, especially in high-volume communities. Instead of keeping the records indefinitely, we could log them as they happened, and show up to a certain number of them (I suggest 200, as that is double the size of a paid community's maximum queue depth). Or, if hanging onto them indefinitely would not be a strain, they should be paginated maybe at 100 records at a time. They would be displayed on a special page that can be accessed only by users who have the right to see the moderation queue.

(While community moderators can see the moderation queue, administrators can grant themselves the right to moderate, and should probably be able to see the page whether or not they currently have that attribute turned on. Please do submit scenarios where an administrator should not be able to visit that page in the comments, if you can think of any, because I can't -- at least not until admin rights can be granted piece-by-piece, in which case we'll probably have owners by then, and owners should then be able to visit it without explicitly turning anything on.)

The page should log the following:

Username of submitter
Timestamp of submission
Title of submission
Escaped (plain-text with all HTML symbols displayed) version of first X characters of submission
Username of moderator
Action (disposition of submission)
Note (if any)
Timestamp of action
Link to entry (if posted)

It should log approval, rejection, and reject-as-spam.

It should display (by default) in the order of action, with newest actions on top, but it would be awesome if the page could be sorted by some of the other fields. Records would remain visible until pushed out of the active area.

This would be useful for community management tasks. Moderators could spend less time on communicating basic details to each other and more time talking about other community management needs. It would be easy to look up recent actions of other moderators even if they did not mention the incident. In case of problems on a moderation team, for example if moderators were taking actions by accident, by a mistaken understanding of the community policies, or out of malice, their actions would be visible to others and they could be spoken with based on a record of their actual actions rather than one person's word against another's.

Poll #9261 Community Moderation Log
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 63


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Should be implemented as-is.
42 (66.7%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
1 (1.6%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
20 (31.7%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

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

Title:
Community admins/moderators: moderation queue action subscription

Area:
communities, notifications, entries, moderation queue

Summary:
Create a subscription for action (acceptance and rejection) for community moderation queues. Make this subscription available only to users who have access to see the moderation queue.

Description:
Community moderators may currently receive notifications for new submissions to their community's moderation queue.

It would also be useful for them to get notifications about moderation queue action, possibly from themselves, but definitely from other moderators.

The notification should include:

The username of the moderator who made the action, what the action was, what community this is in, the username of the user whose submission it was, the time the submission entered the queue and the time the action was made, the note (if any) the moderator left, the entry's title, contents, and possibly other relevant metadata (tags, location, mood); if this action was an approval, a link to the entry as posted.

(Should this be sent for items that are marked as spam? I can think of arguments in both directions: against: in case of legitimate spam it is useless overhead that will only bother the other moderators, emailing known spam may alarm email providers; for: if a moderator is marking things as spam that are not spam (either accidentally, mistakenly, or maliciously) the others should know, moderators who become accustomed to messages about queue action may be surprised when they see an entry come in but find it gone with no notification about why.)

This notification should only be available to people with access to see the moderation queue, which in practice is only moderators, but in terms of practical community oversight might need to include the community administrators.

The subscription should be separate for every community, and should (if possible for business reasons) not count against the subscription slot limit.

(Related: an on-site moderation queue log.)

Poll #9260 Community admins/moderators: moderation queue action subscription
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 57


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Should be implemented as-is.
20 (35.1%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
4 (7.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
33 (57.9%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

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

Title:
Administrators: Subscribe to community poll votes

Area:
subscriptions, polls, community administration

Summary:
Allow community administrators to subscribe to all, all administrator-created, or specific arbitrary polls within their community, just as if they had created the poll themselves.

Description:
Sometimes community administration requires staying on top of some issue or other, and sometimes that issue involves a poll. Sometimes vigorous refreshing of the poll votes page is just not efficient.

An all-poll subscription would mirror the all-comments subscription, and allow the administrator to get a more clear picture of activity in the community, albeit possibly a very high-volume one.

All administrator-created polls would likely be a little more difficult to implement, and might not catch older polls created by administrators, or polls created by people who were admins at the time but who are not now, but could be useful for situations where multiple people need to monitor the poll, but only one person can post it, or when a new administrator takes over but would like to continue using the previous admin's poll.

Specific polls would let the administrator pick and choose which polls are important to monitor. This might be easier to implement than an all-administrator-created-polls subscription, and serve many of the same important functions.

Poll #8835 Administrators: Subscribe to community poll votes
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 44


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Should be implemented as-is.
32 (72.7%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
1 (2.3%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
11 (25.0%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

thorfinn: <user name="seedy_girl"> and <user name="thorfinn"> (Default)
[personal profile] thorfinn

Title:
Use Project Honey Pot HTTP Blacklist for Spam Prevention

Area:
spam prevention

Summary:
Project Honey Pot at http://www.projecthoneypot.org/ has a Blacklist available for catching comment spammers, link harvesters, and the like by IP.

It could be used by DW to block and/or better identify spammers.

Description:
First refer to the contents of:

http://www.projecthoneypot.org/services_overview.php
http://www.projecthoneypot.org/faq.php

The HTTP Blacklist could be included for either or both of:

1. realtime use on the Dreamwidth servers
2. Informational use by the spam prevention team when they need to look up an IP address

In addition it could be possible for dreamwidth to help out project honeypot also.

Poll #5118 Use Project Honey Pot HTTP Blacklist for Spam Prevention
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 40


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Should be implemented as-is.
7 (17.5%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
1 (2.5%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
3 (7.5%)

(I have no opinion)
28 (70.0%)

(Other: please comment)
1 (2.5%)

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

Title:
Bulk invite code testing tool for dw_codesharing admins

Area:
administrative tools, invite codes

Summary:
If it does not already exist, it should: an interface for bulk-testing a group of invite codes and showing which work and which do not.

Description:
This tool would take inputs of single or multiple invite codes, probably on separate lines rather than a comma-separated list, and show which ones are still good.

Why? Because when you're helping assist in dw_codesharing, occasionally there will be entries with a lot of codes, and you want to test which ones work and which do not. The actual create page is rate limited, as it very sensibly should be.

To prevent abuse, this should only be available through granting privs, and should only display whether or not the code is good/unused, rather than showing more details such as the journal the code originates from, the username of the journal that claimed the code, and other things -- they would be useful to someone at a site owner level, but they're not needed at a dw_codesharing admin level.

For bonus shiny, the output could include a section with the working codes stuffed into a https://www.dreamwidth.org/create?code= link, for easy copying and pasting.

Poll #3832 Bulk invite code testing tool for dw_codesharing admins
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 26


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Should be implemented as-is.
15 (57.7%)

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

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
11 (42.3%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

pauamma: Cartooney crab wearing hot pink and acid green facemask holding drink with straw (Default)
[personal profile] pauamma

Title:
Easier sysban modification

Area:
spamfighting, maybe TOS

Summary:
When querying whether a single IP address (or whatever) is sysbanned for a given sysban type, the sysbans for that address (or at least those you can set) should be modifiable, not readonly.

Description:
That would avoid needing to load the ginormous page listing all sysbans of a (single) type you can modify, which (for the sysbans spamwhackers use) make the browser sluggish at best (and usually unresponsive) for a few minutes.

In addition, seeing all sysbans you have access to and letting you modify them would make it possible to take cross-type decisions. (not just easier - currently, you need to load the aforementioned ginormous page once per type, which doesn't scale at all).

Poll #3090 Easier sysban modification
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 26


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Should be implemented as-is.
6 (23.1%)

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

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
20 (76.9%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

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

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

Title:
Spam Reports: mode=view should have link to journal of suspected spammer

Area:
spamfighting, UI, common sense

Summary:
Individual spam reports should link back to the journal of the alleged spammer.

Description:
Surprisingly, while the individual spam report view has a link to the journal of the reporter, it does not have one to the journal of the alleged spammer. Not a problem with IP addresses. A problem with OpenIDs and real journals. The list view does have a link to both the reporter and the alleged offender.

This may become irrelevant when there's a new spam reports system.

(I'm expecting this to get a lot of "no opinion" votes because it only applies to the anti-spam team.)

Poll #1941 Spam Reports: mode=view should have link to journal of suspected spammer
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 25


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Should be implemented as-is.
16 (64.0%)

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

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
9 (36.0%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

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

Title:
Make admin tool email when adding paid time

Area:
paid accounts, admin tools

Summary:
Add an option to the admin tool for paid time so that users can be emailed (if the admin wants) to tell them they have been given paid time.

Description:
The admin tool used to update paid time (used for theme-maker bonuses, or if someone gets paid time extended as compensation for a problem) doesn't email the user with the usual "You have been given paid time" email. Obviously on some occasions when the admin tool is used, the user is told anyway, so it would be redundant, but sometimes they aren't. In these cases, it would be useful to add an option to the admin tool to tell the user that they've been given paid time. This would use the same notification as being gifted paid time by another user. It would be an option so the admin could make sure that people aren't getting annoyed be extra emails when it's not appropriate.

Poll #1808 Make admin tool email when adding paid time
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 26


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Should be implemented as-is.
22 (84.6%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
1 (3.8%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
3 (11.5%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

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