Understand/implement report system

[zorbathut]

https://gitlab.com/tildes/tildes/-/issues/509 suggests that a "malice label" already exists for comments. I have no idea how this works. Someone look into it.

We need some way to report posts as well; it should be possible to attach a reason to this.

Reports should be hidden from the public (because otherwise it'll become a weapon) and collated into a private to-moderate list. We need some way to approve posts, remove posts, and ban users.

We need a new user filter that puts posts into a hidden state that shows up in the to-moderate list.

I can provide screenshots of how Reddit's solution works; at the moment this is basically "reimplement reddit's solution, we'll worry about being smarter later".

[Deimos]

I'm actively working on a "proper" report system for both posts and comments right now (including removing Malice labels and replacing them with comment reports). So you should probably just wait and will be able to take it from the upstream code soon, I hope to have it done in the next week or so.

This won't cover things like the new user filter though, so you'll probably still have some to do on top of it.

[zorbathut]

Oh perfect! I'll just wait for that.

And yeah, I'm expecting more work to do, but having an foundation in place upstream will make everything easier. (And easier to upstream our improvements to you, if they end up suitable.)

[mooja]

While we wait for the "proper" report system in upstream I want to implement a simple temporary report system for themotte.org will will show user reports and allow moderators to take actions.

I'll take you up on the offer to provide Reddit's moderation UI screenshot, @zorbathut . I'm still learning where everything is in the code-base, so no rush.

[zorbathut]

UI screenshot, hopefully anonymized:

https://i.imgur.com/lMTEjh5.png

That said, note that the above post was like nine months ago; chances are good the report system is in place :) I know there's at least one person working on merging the new version in (see #43), it might be worth just checking to see if that code ended up in Tildes by now.