I've just been considering a batch of empty nodes. When one does this, the consideration option buttons do not appear in the approval nodelet immediately after consideration. If the node is then downvoted, the radio buttons appear. I believe that downvoting is a prerequisite to reaping, so I do it anyway & it causes no problem, but is this intended behaviour? If so, I'm curious as to why. And if I don't need to downvote them, I'd like to know that, too.

Regards,

John Davies
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Re: Consideration options not appearing immediately
by Anonymous Monk on Oct 09, 2010 at 13:18 UTC
    I believe that downvoting is a prerequisite to reaping

    Yes, downvoting is a prerequisite for automatic reaping, and if you're the person to consider the node, you should be the one to downvote (one is all you need)

      If this is why the moderation radio buttons don't appear immediately, it's not obvious, although it makes sense. Would it be practical for those whose power and Perl skills are high enough to fill the empty space for the radio buttons with some text along the lines of "If you want the node deleted, please downvote it"?

      This suggestion, of course, assumes that the behaviour described is intended.

      Regards,

      John Davies
Re: Consideration options not appearing immediately
by MidLifeXis (Monsignor) on Oct 11, 2010 at 13:36 UTC

    A reload of click on the link to the page will also show the moderation buttons. I am not sure if it is an intentional feature, or something else. I am sure that there is an explanation (since I was told long ago by those who are my perlmonk elders). Some other monk has more information on this.

    Update: Clarified wording

    Update: Updated per tye's astute observation about "reload".

    --MidLifeXis

      Better to go "Back" before reloading or to click on the node ID to get a "not a response to a POST" version of the node before doing any next step with the moderation nodelet. My browser warns me before reloading a page that is a response to a POST but many people like to disable warnings.

      That isn't the only bug in the moderation nodelet. I rewrote it as part of fixing a lot of other unfortunate problems with the "moderation" implementation. Unfortunately, the rewrite appears to have been too big of a change for it to actually get deployed successfully.

      - tye