After 'Report post' limit, post becomes unapproved

[OCJ]

Seems I cant post in feature requests or next smf discussion so I put here.


I prefer to leave 1 board guest activity  board and another used as a contactus board open for guest posting. There is captcha and spam questions but individuals regularly leave spam or their own business advertising links without permission.

If admin is away then other regular group users cannot see unapproved posts to reply to. If I leave boards open then there is spam. I don't have/want moderators but a system to allow normal user groups to judge posts would be a good.
If they reported a post and admin had an option to set the number of reports as a trigger  (say 3 times reported) to make the post unapproved it would be a big help. Regular users often will help clean up by simply reporting it - its a huge resource pool that could be tapped into to get spam 'invisible' and on a moderation unapproved list.

If a few members report it then it probably is spam.
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[Oldiesmann]

You should have permission to post in both of those boards. Are you not seeing the "New Topic" button there?

[OCJ]

Last time I logged in and looked around carefully I couldnt post in those boards it seems - no  new topic button visible.
Feature request and next SMF.

Donno why. I logged out/logged in again but the same.



If selected (admin settable) groups users report a post and it reaches an admin limit (settable), say 3 reports, then it automatically becomes an unapproved post and not visible.

A way of using average board users to automatically clean up some spam.

[emanuele]

That's not a bad idea...

The post moderation could be improved in several ways, one that is still in my to-do list is to be able to define certain "conditions" for the posts to be posted as approved (like no more than x links, no more than x words, no more frequently than x posts per minute over a certain amount of time, etc.) and otherwise kept as unapproved (maybe linked to the number of posts of the user).

[Orangine]

I guess it's more like a mod material than a feature. Also, it could be easily abused, it's way too easy to get few folks to report something.
I've had an idea once, that if a post is reported more than once, it should be "bumped" on the reported posts lists, this would work well in a big forums, where a lot content is published and sometimes mods are dealing with the report looking on the time/date.

[emanuele]

Yeah, abuses are always possible.
On "big forums" it could be possible to balance the effects with some kind of intermediate step, for example the 3 reports could put the post in ignore (i.e. just hidded and "click here to view it") in that state other members could "vote against the report", etc.

Most likely yes, at that step a mod is better, but we can discuss if there is something that could be put into SMF.

[Arantor]

Yeah, the problem with unapproving etc. is indeed the whole abuse factor, but there is an entire rabbit hole you can go down with this; you can have it that a post can be reported a maximum of x times, and once the reports are closed the post could be marked as 'safe' to prevent it being reported again, unless it gets edited or something.

The problem with this is that you can get into whole realms of measures and counter measures and it should definitely be mod, not core, material.

Also, getting into the realms of pseudo-rating posts is pretty much out of the scope of SMF core, even karma isn't really ideal and likes is sufficiently neutral-to-positive (as opposed to being basically negative) that it's not a problem to keep included.

* Arantor Beeblebrox the First moves to the 'not going to happen' board.