Re: RFC: Hide Very Bad Answers From Visitors

Update:

A big "thank u!" to all who wade in. All of your ideas are greatly apreachy8ed.

As of this moment, the feature is implemented as follows:

The threshold is fixed at -7. That is, replies with rep -8 and below will be affected.
In threads, a reply below the threshold is replaced with a notice:

A reply falls below the community's threshold of quality. You may see it by logging in.

Other implementation details are as before.

Updater:

1. VBN are now hidden (blanked) when viewing directly. This is to help prevent trolls getting auto-feeded by merely looking at their own nodes. It might also help with VBN getting cached by search engines. (Not likely, but every little bit helps.)

2. The threshold is now -4 rather than -7. We don't seem to have the critical mass to get -7 routinely on Very Bad Nodes.

3. Extremely Bad Nodes — those with a rep of -9 or lower — are now hidden from logged-in monks of level 1 and 2 (Initiates and Novices).

I reckon we are the only monastery ever to have a dungeon stuffed with 16,000 zombies.

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Re^2: RFC: Hide Very Bad Answers From Visitors by haukex (Archbishop) on Mar 03, 2021 at 16:24 UTC
VBN are now hidden (blanked) when viewing directly. Thank you for all your work in implementing this! In this case, perhaps it would make sense to replace the node with a message like This node falls below the community's threshold of quality. You may see it by logging in. ? Seeing a blank node has caused a little bit of confusion.	[reply]
Re^3: RFC: Hide Very Bad Answers From Visitors by jdporter (Paladin) on Mar 04, 2021 at 18:44 UTC
Done.	[reply]
Re^2: RFC: Hide Very Bad Answers From Visitors (Flag for regulars) by LanX (Saint) on Sep 01, 2024 at 14:46 UTC
Logged in users can still see these VBN, which is ok. But could we at least flag them with a special CSS-style, be directly in the post or in RAT view. (This CSS could also be configured to hide the post if wanted) FWIW: I'm currently maintaining a personal CSS list to highlight notorious monks, so I don't fall again into the trap to answer them. But knowing that the threshold is already reached would help me avoiding them even more. I know that downvotes should be cast without bias and prior information, and this feature might attract "stupid" downvotes. But given the fact that this information is already available - just log out to (not) see - this would be convenient for us regulars. I also think this is a good feedback mechanism for notorious monks to realize that the tolerance of the monastery is running thin and everybody gets a warning. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) see Wikisyntax for the Monastery} PS: I know that I could already provide a patch, but I'd prefer to discuss the ramifications beforehand.	[reply]
Re^3: RFC: Hide Very Bad Answers From Visitors (Flag for regulars) by jdporter (Paladin) on Sep 01, 2024 at 15:14 UTC
. . . discuss the ramifications beforehand Adding a class sounds relatively trivial. Please proceed with the patch, if you're up to it. TIA!	[reply]
Re^4: RFC: Hide Very Bad Answers From Visitors (Flag for regulars) by LanX (Saint) on Sep 01, 2024 at 17:18 UTC
OK it's on my to-do list. Code search for `$HTMLVARS{crap_threshold}` identified the following nodes: handle_threaded_nodes std_node_display shownote Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) see Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply] [d/l]