The Report System

[Hexcellion]

We all know that the report system is one of the most used, well for me that is, systems here in Hive. After reporting like 20 posts that needed to be merged because of double-posting, it has come to my mind that typing the same word again and again is quite a hassle.

So, why not add options to it? Currently the reporting system could use some improvements. Adding options when reporting is a good way to help users know if what the post they are reporting is indeed wrong in some way. The options could be: spam, advertisements, some other stuff, and of course "others" so that you can enter some unique message if the post does not fall in any of the categories or options listed.

The second thing I wanted to talk about is about double-reporting. I am yet to encounter this issue, so what I might say here may be wrong, but here we go. Whenever we report a post, a report thread is created, right? Why not give users access to their own reports, so that we can know if we reported the right thing. This way, we would know if the case had or had not been dealt with and wrong reports may be avoided. This way, the moderators/admins dealing with the report may give his insight(s) regarding the post. Making it possible for some talk regarding the report.

One possible alternative to the aforementioned suggestion is adding a notification that you had already reported that post so that you won't spam threads. Well, add a limit that is, perhaps 48 hours or 2 days until the post can be reported once again. Welp, either of the two would work imo.

What do you say? I'd like to hear your thoughts regarding this topic.

 

[sonofjay]

So, why not add options to it? Currently the reporting system could use some improvements. Adding options when reporting is a good way to help users know if what the post they are reporting is indeed wrong in some way. The options could be: spam, advertisements, some other stuff, and of course "others" so that you can enter some unique message if the post does not fall in any of the categories or options listed.

Lesupport. Though I haven't use the report system even once on my stay here.

 

[MasterTrainer]

This might be useful somehow for the Hive. But really when I report a user I usually do it differently, mostly through VMs or PMs. Though honestly I've used it only once, and I hope that's the last time.

One possible alternative to the aforementioned suggestion is adding a notification that you had already reported that post so that you won't spam threads. Well, add a limit that is, perhaps 48 hours or 2 days until the post can be reported once again. Welp, either of the two would work imo.

This paragraph caught my attention, because it reminds me of the notification that appears when you try to rep a post twice. I think that's what you were going for?

Anyways, full support on this one.

 

[Hexcellion]

Lesupport. Though I haven't use the report system even once on my stay here.

Thanks.

This might be useful somehow for the Hive. But really when I report a user I usually do it differently, mostly through VMs or PMs. Though honestly I've used it only once, and I hope that's the last time.



This paragraph caught my attention, because it reminds me of the notification that appears when you try to rep a post twice. I think that's what you were going for?

Anyways, full support on this one.

Using vm/pm is a hassle, so I use report.

Yes, something like that. It is an alternative to users being able to view their own report threads. And thanks.

 

[Daffa]

You can report the whole thread instead if there's many multi posts

 

[Hexcellion]

You can report the whole thread instead if there's many multi posts

I do not get what you are trying to say here. If you report a whole thread, the moderators/administrators will have to find ALL of the double-posts, what if it had 100 pages? Would you check it all from square one? No.

 

[Ralle]

Hello Hexcellion,
You of all people would know that this could be improved. I broke a sweat yesterday when going through all those reports .
When something is reported, a thread is created for us to look at. If two people report the same thing, another post will be added to the thread. This just shows us that more people reported it, but we won't have extra work on our part.
I like the idea of a list of preset messages such as "Double posting", "Necro posting", "Advertising", "Trolling", "Spamming".

 

[MasterTrainer]

I've never heard of necro posting; can anyone care to tell?

 

[Ralle]

If you made a thread five years ago asking for help on some trigger and somebody replied today. That is necro-posting.

 

[MasterTrainer]

If you made a thread five years ago asking for help on some trigger and somebody replied today. That is necro-posting.

Oh... so that's what it's called... I once tried to do that by going a few hundred pages into the forums; it's a good thing I didn't. And I never will.

Thanks Ralle.

 

[Roland]

Necro posting is like Commenting a post that is very old which is bad. It's like Resurrection a dead post.

 

[Hexcellion]

Hello Hexcellion,
You of all people would know that this could be improved. I broke a sweat yesterday when going through all those reports .
When something is reported, a thread is created for us to look at. If two people report the same thing, another post will be added to the thread. This just shows us that more people reported it, but we won't have extra work on our part.
I like the idea of a list of preset messages such as "Double posting", "Necro posting", "Advertising", "Trolling", "Spamming".

Yes, of course I do. I was so bored that I scrolled some threads and went on a reporting spree so I know how many threads I must have created.

That's good if reports get merged so I won't have any say with that, and thanks for acknowledging my idea.

 

[I3lackDeath]

I like the idea of a list of preset messages such as "Double posting", "Necro posting", "Advertising", "Trolling", "Spamming".

Let's assume for a minute that people of this century have the ability to write.
How hard can it be for them to just write the subject they suspect in the Report field?

 

[MasterTrainer]

Probably the same reason they use systems to make spell-making easier and shorter.

In my opinion.

 

[I3lackDeath]

Well, sure, but this seems to be too much of a hassle for this version of Hive.
As far as I understood things, the suggestion means to add checkboxes usable for everybody, which will send the report to its respective section within the Reports area.
The few clicks that are spared for users, will end up being necessary for Staff to get to their destination.

The thing that should be rather easy to do, is adding an option to use prefixes for reports. That doesn't cause too much of a hassle, I assume, and Staff will see the main problem at hand before going into detail about the respective situation - while reports are still stored in one and the same location.
Stuff like [Inappropriate], [Spam], [Multi-Post], [Advertisement], [Wrong Forum] etc.

Then again, I have no experience in coding, so I don't know about the difficulty of implementing such changes.

 

[MasterTrainer]

Interesting... with those prefixes and the notifications I think this could really work!

But I still do wonder if people would rather type a brief, short report or have all these things upgrade the Bug Report system.

 

[Daffa]

I would love this, so I don't need to type

 

[MasterTrainer]

Here's another thought that came into my mind and might need some clarification: wouldn't this make people a little lazy?

 

[I3lackDeath]

We live in the 21st century. We have technology and all kinds of shit to make our lives more comfortable. Getting lazier is the goal of humanity.

Anywho, people should still fill out the Report field, despite the prefixes.
A short summary or stating one's intention for reporting can never hurt.

 

[Daffa]

I know, just joking
But report with no details will become hard to handle.

 

[I3lackDeath]

Not exactly...
As I said, Staff members are supposed to catch up on the situation before acting accordingly.
Reports without a description won't be any "harder" to deal with than the others.

 

[Daffa]

But the more info we put the more they understand what to do, lock thread, clean thread and others.

Anyway, I think this could prove useful for many cases

 

[I3lackDeath]

Don't get me wrong. The more info the report contains, the better.
It's just that the procedure is (or should be) the same either way.

 

[Daffa]

Make sense, I see the point.

 

[MasterTrainer]

@13lackDeath but you agree that with at least a part of the original suggestion right?

 

[I3lackDeath]

Does it matter whether I agree or not? Nope.
The original suggestion was a tad unclear, and you can read my interpretation of it here.
(That rhymes.)

 

[MasterTrainer]

Oh I know that already. That's why I liked the prefix idea.

Oh and for me everyone's thought on this matter counts, including whether they agree or not. Just don't ask why.

 

[Daffa]

Off-Topic:
@13lackDeath
I love the minimized words

On-Topic :
I guess this can be truly prove useful, I think we can wait for Ralle's decision.

 

[MasterTrainer]

Yeah, we should wait for Ralle's decision.

 

[Hexcellion]

Let me summarize the three long paragraphs I made.

First is like what you said, adding prefixes for the reports. By adding these, the reporter gets to see a list of the violations from "Flaming", "Necro posting", "Double posting", "Wrong section", which would be of help to them, they get to know what the violations are and the staff, well, they would just read the prefix and some info added and do their job a bit faster.

Second is users having access to their reports so they could know if the problem has been handled.

Third is somewhat a notification like in giving rep that you had already reported this post twice.

Thanks for bringing that up I3lackDeath, hope this makes my post clearer.

 

[Roland]

@Hexcellion, I'll give you an example of Necroposting. I'll give you the example link later

 

[RED BARON]

@Hexcellion, I'll give you an example of Necroposting. I'll give you the example link later

Yea, I do believe I saw a post like that of your some time ago?

Also agree with the suggestion, same notion we have when moderating in Ogame.. but since Ralle have already voiced acknowledgment I figure it we'll be seeing it.

 

[Hexcellion]

@Hexcellion, I'll give you an example of Necroposting. I'll give you the example link later

Np, I already know what it is about since Ralle explained it. In the forum I was moderating, it was called gravedigging so I had already an idea of what it meant.

 

[Roland]

well, I'm just kidding on what I said. Carry on, Amigo!

 

[Hexcellion]

well, I'm just kidding on what I said. Carry on, Amigo!

I thought aardvarks were serious creatures. Anyways, let's not get off-topic here.

 

[Roland]

Offtopic time! A little bit.

I haz love Aardvarks and we all toh be funneh all da time we alwayz eat antz 24/7 and inserts the tongue toh da ant hill. so da ants we like: IT'S THE END OF ANT WORLD!! WAAAH. Den, I waz like: MMMMMM, Yummy-san! :3 I wish, I became a real Aardvark!!

HEHEH.

There off-topic

 

[DESTROYER123]

Never reported a post. It must be a serius reason to do it in my opinion.

 

[Roland]

Well, I don't use the report system tho, but some users use it btw... I only PM Ralle or VM the moderators if some users kept on rule-breaking.

 

[Daffa]

I prefer reporting because that's its use, informing staff without Need to contact each one of them.

 

[Hexcellion]

I prefer reporting because that's its use, informing staff without Need to contact each one of them.

And it's a hassle doing so.

Anyways, let's not get off-topic here, if we do have a topic here.

 

[MasterTrainer]

We do have a topic, the Report System.

 

[Hexcellion]

We do have a topic, the Report System.

Oh great, I almost forgot that we had one. Thanks for reminding me.

 

[Daffa]

^im staying in topic

Anyway, if this can be implemented, it will be a good addition.

 

[Hexcellion]

^im staying in topic

Well, a little. We were talking about the possible additions to the current report system. But, at least you were talking about the report. There's that good part.

 

[I3lackDeath]

You guys are killing me. Think about becoming writers for soap operas. You'd be immensely successful.

 

[MasterTrainer]

if it were only that simple.

 

[RED BARON]

In fact I believe that Ralle already mentioned what he thought about the suggestion, making further discussion somewhat pointless.

But agreed, they would make decent soap opera.