Two suggestions to help calm the boards down

deadlychuck·Mar 13, 2019·1 votes·3,604 views

Stop making new subcategories for people to post the same shit that they're going to end up posting on every other board anyway. I just noticed that there's a new "RANT" board (which i just noticed replaced gameplay+ lul called it) ... Why not just give people & mods, the ability to tag posts with different labels (that you control) in order to categorize different posts? But no shady shit with shadow labels and I'd even go as far as to say only make the labels neutral categorization terms that encompass the good and bad content of that category "Gameplay", "Boards", "Creative", exc. E.g. No labels like "toxic" or "rant" that mods could slap onto posts to label them as "avoid"

Then just allow people to search via those tags.

Add in a system which will identify which posts the Rioters have viewed. It doesn't necessarily need to give too much information about which rioter(s) has seen it or how many (we don't want people trying to farm rioter views). Only that it's been noticed. This is part of the reason why you keep getting increasingly inflammatory content. There's zero body language style feedback, meaning there's no way to know if you're being heard unless you elicit enough of an emotional response to get a comment out of them.

This effectively works as a kind of non-verbal feedback to people which isn't easily conveyed over internet text posts.

3 Comments

IAmTheLegoMar 13, 20191 votes

I like the 2nd point suggestion.

To also add, not only rioters but also users like mods, heralds, etc. Probably leave options you want on who saw it.

ModAttysu The PoroMar 14, 20191 votes

The label idea and the second idea are both things that require back-end coding which we can't really do at the moment from what I know. I can ask our local Wuks about it but I'm not very sure if it's possible at this time (even if it would definitely be beneficial).

deadlychuckMar 15, 20191 votes

The first one would undoubtedly require some architecture changes, so I wouldn't expect that to be something that would happen until maybe the next overhaul like the forums -> boards.

The second one could require as little as passing a single extra user data flag back from the web instance, to the server back-end upon the get request send when you click on a discussion-list item and maybe a little copy paste on the back-end. It undoubtedly requests the post's data from the server, even without additional UI, just sending users an alert to their updates (even just a static "A rioter has viewed your post").

I'd imagine that this code roughly already exists in however replies are connected back to the OP's updates inbox, so just duplicating that upon opening the post if the request for the post was sent from a user account flagged as a "rioter" user.

Sorry, if that's a little too technical or speculatively off the mark, I'm a web app dev and I'm just kinda thinking "out loud".